Now that we don't merge uninitialized extents anymore, ext4_fallocate() is free to operate on the inode while there are still some extent conversions pending - it won't disturb them in any way. Reviewed-by: Zheng Liu <wenqing.lz@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxx> --- fs/ext4/extents.c | 2 -- 1 files changed, 0 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/fs/ext4/extents.c b/fs/ext4/extents.c index f1ce33a..5c7a46a 100644 --- a/fs/ext4/extents.c +++ b/fs/ext4/extents.c @@ -4406,8 +4406,6 @@ long ext4_fallocate(struct file *file, int mode, loff_t offset, loff_t len) if (len <= EXT_UNINIT_MAX_LEN << blkbits) flags |= EXT4_GET_BLOCKS_NO_NORMALIZE; - /* Prevent race condition between unwritten */ - ext4_flush_unwritten_io(inode); retry: while (ret >= 0 && ret < max_blocks) { map.m_lblk = map.m_lblk + ret; -- 1.7.1 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ext4" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html