On Wed, 18 Jul 2012, Eric Sandeen wrote:
> Date: Wed, 18 Jul 2012 14:34:47 -0500
> From: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@xxxxxxxxxx>
> To: Lukas Czerner <lczerner@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: linux-ext4@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, linux-fsdevel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, tytso@xxxxxxx,
> achender@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [PATCH 02/12 v2] Revert "ext4: fix fsx truncate failure"
>
> On 7/13/12 8:19 AM, Lukas Czerner wrote:
> > This reverts commit 189e868fa8fdca702eb9db9d8afc46b5cb9144c9.
> >
> > This commit reintroduces the use of ext4_block_truncate_page() in ext4
> > truncate operation instead of ext4_discard_partial_page_buffers().
>
> And I think commit 15291164b22a357cb211b618adfef4fa82fc0de3
> jbd2: clear BH_Delay & BH_Unwritten in journal_unmap_buffer
>
> fixed the fsx problem referenced in that commit more properly.
You're probably right, I'll test that with your test case and add it
to the description.
Thanks!
-Lukas
>
> > The statement in the commit description that the truncate operation only
> > zero block unaligned portion of the last page is not exactly right,
> > since truncate_pagecache_range() also zeroes and invalidate the unaligned
> > portion of the page. Then there is no need to zero and unmap it once more
> > and ext4_block_truncate_page() was doing the right job, although we
> > still need to update the buffer head containing the last block, which is
> > exactly what ext4_block_truncate_page() is doing.
> >
> > This was tested on ppc64 machine with block size of 1024 bytes without
> > any problems.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Lukas Czerner <lczerner@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> > fs/ext4/extents.c | 13 ++-----------
> > fs/ext4/indirect.c | 13 ++-----------
> > 2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 22 deletions(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/fs/ext4/extents.c b/fs/ext4/extents.c
> > index 91341ec..ceab5f5 100644
> > --- a/fs/ext4/extents.c
> > +++ b/fs/ext4/extents.c
> > @@ -4222,7 +4222,6 @@ void ext4_ext_truncate(struct inode *inode)
> > struct super_block *sb = inode->i_sb;
> > ext4_lblk_t last_block;
> > handle_t *handle;
> > - loff_t page_len;
> > int err = 0;
> >
> > /*
> > @@ -4239,16 +4238,8 @@ void ext4_ext_truncate(struct inode *inode)
> > if (IS_ERR(handle))
> > return;
> >
> > - if (inode->i_size % PAGE_CACHE_SIZE != 0) {
> > - page_len = PAGE_CACHE_SIZE -
> > - (inode->i_size & (PAGE_CACHE_SIZE - 1));
> > -
> > - err = ext4_discard_partial_page_buffers(handle,
> > - mapping, inode->i_size, page_len, 0);
> > -
> > - if (err)
> > - goto out_stop;
> > - }
> > + if (inode->i_size & (sb->s_blocksize - 1))
> > + ext4_block_truncate_page(handle, mapping, inode->i_size);
> >
> > if (ext4_orphan_add(handle, inode))
> > goto out_stop;
> > diff --git a/fs/ext4/indirect.c b/fs/ext4/indirect.c
> > index 830e1b2..a082b30 100644
> > --- a/fs/ext4/indirect.c
> > +++ b/fs/ext4/indirect.c
> > @@ -1349,9 +1349,7 @@ void ext4_ind_truncate(struct inode *inode)
> > __le32 nr = 0;
> > int n = 0;
> > ext4_lblk_t last_block, max_block;
> > - loff_t page_len;
> > unsigned blocksize = inode->i_sb->s_blocksize;
> > - int err;
> >
> > handle = start_transaction(inode);
> > if (IS_ERR(handle))
> > @@ -1362,16 +1360,9 @@ void ext4_ind_truncate(struct inode *inode)
> > max_block = (EXT4_SB(inode->i_sb)->s_bitmap_maxbytes + blocksize-1)
> > >> EXT4_BLOCK_SIZE_BITS(inode->i_sb);
> >
> > - if (inode->i_size % PAGE_CACHE_SIZE != 0) {
> > - page_len = PAGE_CACHE_SIZE -
> > - (inode->i_size & (PAGE_CACHE_SIZE - 1));
> > -
> > - err = ext4_discard_partial_page_buffers(handle,
> > - mapping, inode->i_size, page_len, 0);
> > -
> > - if (err)
> > + if (inode->i_size & (blocksize - 1))
> > + if (ext4_block_truncate_page(handle, mapping, inode->i_size))
> > goto out_stop;
> > - }
> >
> > if (last_block != max_block) {
> > n = ext4_block_to_path(inode, last_block, offsets, NULL);
> >
>
>
>
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