Re: [PATCH 1/6] sort out blockdev_direct_IO variants

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On Wed, Jun 02, 2010 at 01:00:14AM +0200, Jan Kara wrote:
> On Sun 30-05-10 22:49:42, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> > Move the call to vmtruncate to get rid of accessive blocks to the callers
> > in prepearation of the new truncate calling sequence.  This was only done
> > for DIO_LOCKING filesystems, so the __blockdev_direct_IO_newtrunc variant
> > was not needed anyway.  Get rid of blockdev_direct_IO_no_locking and
> > it's _newtrunc variant while at it as just opencoding the two additional
> > paramters is shorted than the name suffix.
>   Hmm, I've noticed that you didn't add truncate code to btrfs. I see that
> it already does some recovery after direct IO error but I'd like to make
> sure that it won't be broken by your patches... Chris?

As mentioned above __blockdev_direct_IO only called vmtruncate for the
DIO_LOCKING, which does not include btrfs.  And yes, there's quite a bit
of things that need cleanup but didn't have it before due to the way
the cleanup code was hidden, but that's not something I want to do
in this transformation series.

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