Here are some patches to fix netfs_write_begin() and the handling of THPs in
that and afs_write_begin/end() in the following ways:
(1) Use offset_in_thp() rather than manually calculating the offset into
the page.
(2) In the future, the len parameter may extend beyond the page allocated.
This is because the page allocation is deferred to write_begin() and
that gets to decide what size of THP to allocate.
(3) In netfs_write_begin(), extract the decision about whether to skip a
page out to its own helper and have that clear around the region to be
written, but not clear that region. This requires the filesystem to
patch it up afterwards if the hole doesn't get completely filled.
(4) Due to (3), afs_write_end() now needs to handle short data write into
the page by generic_perform_write(). I've adopted an analogous
approach to ceph of just returning 0 in this case and letting the
caller go round again.
I wonder if generic_perform_write() should pass in a flag indicating
whether this is the first attempt or a second attempt at this, and on the
second attempt we just completely prefill the page and just let the partial
write stand - which we have to do if the page was already uptodate when we
started.
The patches can be found here:
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dhowells/linux-fs.git/log/?h=afs-fixes
David
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210613233345.113565-1-jlayton@xxxxxxxxxx/
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/162367681795.460125.11729955608839747375.stgit@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/
Changes
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ver #2:
- Removed a var that's no longer used (spotted by the kernel test robot)
- Removed a forgotten "noinline".
ver #1:
- Prefixed the Jeff's new helper with "netfs_".
- Don't call zero_user_segments() for a full-page write.
- Altered the beyond-last-page check to avoid a DIV.
- Removed redundant zero-length-file check.
- Added patches to fix afs.
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David Howells (2):
afs: Handle len being extending over page end in write_begin/write_end
afs: Fix afs_write_end() to handle short writes
Jeff Layton (1):
netfs: fix test for whether we can skip read when writing beyond EOF
fs/afs/write.c | 12 +++++++++--
fs/netfs/read_helper.c | 49 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-----------
2 files changed, 46 insertions(+), 15 deletions(-)
