Re: [PATCH 02/10] ext2: Convert ext2_check_page to ext2_check_folio

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On Tue 03-10-23 12:40:17, Jan Kara wrote:
> On Thu 21-09-23 21:07:39, Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) wrote:
> > Support in this function for large folios is limited to supporting
> > filesystems with block size > PAGE_SIZE.  This new functionality will only
> > be supported on machines without HIGHMEM, so the problem of kmap_local
> > only being able to map a single page in the folio can be ignored.
> > We will not use large folios for ext2 directories on HIGHMEM machines.
> 
> OK, but can we perhaps enforce this with some checks & error messages
> instead of a silent failure? Like:
> 
> #ifdef CONFIG_HIGHMEM
> 	if (sb->s_blocksize > PAGE_SIZE)
> 		bail with error
> #endif
> 
> somewhere in ext2_fill_super()? Or maybe force allocation of lowmem pages
> when blocksize > PAGE_SIZE?
> 
> > @@ -195,9 +195,9 @@ static void *ext2_get_page(struct inode *dir, unsigned long n,
> >  
> >  	if (IS_ERR(folio))
> >  		return ERR_CAST(folio);
> > -	page_addr = kmap_local_folio(folio, n & (folio_nr_pages(folio) - 1));
> > +	page_addr = kmap_local_folio(folio, 0);

Oh, and I think this change breaks the code whenever we get back higher
order folio because the page_addr we get back is not for the page index
'n'.
								Honza
-- 
Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxxx>
SUSE Labs, CR



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