Hello, This series fixes a long standing problem of racing punch hole and page fault resulting in possible filesystem corruption or stale data exposure. We fix the problem by using a new inode-private rw_semaphore i_mmap_sem to synchronize page faults with truncate and punch hole operations. When having this exclusion, the only remaining problem with DAX implementation are races between two page faults zeroing out same block concurrently (where the data written after the first fault finishes are possibly overwritten by the second fault still doing zeroing). That is dealt with by patches 5 and 6 in this series where we implement block zeroing directly in ext4_map_blocks(). The patches survived xfstests run both in dax and non-dax mode. Honza -- 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
