RE: [PATCH 1/3] ext4: fix COLLAPSE_RANGE failure issue on ext4 with 1KB block size

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> On Thu, 17 Apr 2014, Namjae Jeon wrote:
> 
> > Date: Thu, 17 Apr 2014 07:27:45 +0900
> > From: Namjae Jeon <namjae.jeon@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> > To: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@xxxxxxx>
> > Cc: linux-ext4 <linux-ext4@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
> >     'Lukáš Czerner' <lczerner@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > Subject: [PATCH 1/3] ext4: fix COLLAPSE_RANGE failure issue on ext4 with 1KB
> >     block size
> >
> > From: Namjae Jeon <namjae.jeon@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> >
> > When formatting with 1KB or 2KB(not aligned with PAGE SIZE) block size,
> > xfstests generic/075 and 091 are failing. The offset supplied to function
> > truncate_pagecache_range is block size aligned. In this function start offset
> > is re-aligned to PAGE_SIZE by rounding_up to the next page boundary.
> > Due to this rounding up, old data remains in the page cache when blocksize is
> > less than page size and start offset is not aligned with page size.
> > In case of collapse range, we need to align start offset to page size boundary
> > by doing a round down operation instead of round up.
> 
> Great, thanks for finding it.
> 
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Namjae Jeon <namjae.jeon@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Signed-off-by: Ashish Sangwan <a.sangwan@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> >  fs/ext4/extents.c | 11 +++++++----
> >  1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/fs/ext4/extents.c b/fs/ext4/extents.c
> > index 1bb3e4b..f386dd6 100644
> > --- a/fs/ext4/extents.c
> > +++ b/fs/ext4/extents.c
> > @@ -5404,8 +5404,8 @@ int ext4_collapse_range(struct inode *inode, loff_t offset, loff_t len)
> >  	struct super_block *sb = inode->i_sb;
> >  	ext4_lblk_t punch_start, punch_stop;
> >  	handle_t *handle;
> > -	unsigned int credits;
> > -	loff_t new_size;
> > +	unsigned int credits, rounding;
> > +	loff_t new_size, ioffset;
> >  	int ret;
> >
> >  	/* Collapse range works only on fs block size aligned offsets. */
> > @@ -5428,8 +5428,11 @@ int ext4_collapse_range(struct inode *inode, loff_t offset, loff_t len)
> >  			return ret;
> >  	}
> >
> > +	rounding = max_t(uint, 1 << EXT4_BLOCK_SIZE_BITS(sb), PAGE_CACHE_SIZE);
> > +	ioffset = offset & ~(rounding - 1);
> 
> That looks like you're expecting that block size might be bigger
> than page size. That's definitely not the case at the moment as we
> can not have block size > page size. There is a discussion to
> support this in the future, but even when the infrastructure is done
> we would have to revisit the code anyway. So I do not think this is
> needed. Just always round it down to PAGE_SIZE (since that's what
> truncate_pagecache is actually using)
Right :), I will change it.

> 
> > +
> >  	/* Write out all dirty pages */
> > -	ret = filemap_write_and_wait_range(inode->i_mapping, offset, -1);
> > +	ret = filemap_write_and_wait_range(inode->i_mapping, ioffset, -1);
> >  	if (ret)
> >  		return ret;
> >
> > @@ -5451,7 +5454,7 @@ int ext4_collapse_range(struct inode *inode, loff_t offset, loff_t len)
> >  		goto out_mutex;
> >  	}
> >
> > -	truncate_pagecache_range(inode, offset, -1);
> > +	truncate_pagecache_range(inode, ioffset, -1);
> 
> As I mentioned in a different email we can just use
> truncate_pagecache(). In fact we should use it because we want to
> remove private COWed pages as well I think.
Okay, If you send the updated your patch, I will create the patch base on your patch again.

Thanks :)
> 
> Thanks!
> -Lukas
> 
> >
> >  	/* Wait for existing dio to complete */
> >  	ext4_inode_block_unlocked_dio(inode);
> >

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