On Wed, Dec 04, 2024 at 07:05:01AM -0500, Brian Foster wrote: > On Wed, Dec 04, 2024 at 05:06:00PM +0800, Long Li wrote: > > On Tue, Dec 03, 2024 at 09:54:41AM -0500, Brian Foster wrote: > > > Not sure I see how this is a serialization dependency given that > > > writeback completion also samples i_size. But no matter, it seems a > > > reasonable implementation to me to make the submission path consistent > > > in handling eof. > > > > > > I wonder if this could just use end_pos returned from > > > iomap_writepage_handle_eof()? > > > > > > Brian > > > > > > > It seems reasonable to me, but end_pos is block-size granular. We need > > to pass in a more precise byte-granular end. > > Well Ok, but _handle_eof() doesn't actually use the value itself so from > that standpoint I see no reason it couldn't at least return the > unaligned end pos. From there, it looks like we do still want the > rounded up value for the various ifs state management calls. > > I can see a couple ways of doing that.. one is just align the value in > the caller and use the two variants appropriately. Since the ifs_ > helpers all seem to be in byte units, another option could be to > sanitize the helpers to the appropriate start/end rounding internally. > > Either of those probably warrant a separate prep patch or two rather > than being squashed in with the i_size fix, but otherwise I'm not seeing > much of a roadblock here. Am I missing something? > > Brian > Agreed. Looks like there are no other roadblocks. I'll update in the next version. Best Regards Long Li