RE: [PATCH v5 2/10] xfs: Add support FALLOC_FL_INSERT_RANGE for fallocate

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> Hi Namjae,
Hi Brian.

Thanks for your mail :)
> 
> Sorry for finding things so late, but it looks like this suffers from
> the same couple bugs we've recently discovered with the collapse range
> patches. See the following for a couple fixes that have been proposed
> recently:
> 
> http://oss.sgi.com/archives/xfs/2014-08/msg00292.html
> 
> This one helps prevent scenarios where we try to cancel a transaction
> that is dirty. This leads to a shutdown on XFS. The idea is basically to
> avoid logging until we actually make a change, so errors hit early in
> the function (before we change anything) won't lead to an abort in the
> error path. It looks like the bmap split and shift functions in this
> patch could use the very same attention.
Okay, I will add this commit to insert range patch.

> 
> http://oss.sgi.com/archives/xfs/2014-08/index.html
> 
> This one deals with a problem with the high level shift algorithm. The
> problem with the algorithm here is that 'current_ext' can change
> unexpectedly once we release the ilock due to writeback on parts of the
> file before the range being collapsed/inserted. E.g., it is not a stable
> index once ilock is dropped. The temporary solution is to flush the
> entire file, since we have the iolock during the entire operation and
> nothing else can dirty the file. The better fix is to track via an
> offset across iterations of the shift, rather than the extent count
> (iirc, xfs_bunmapi() and other bmap functions provide examples of this
> kind of algorithm).
Okay, I will check your points.

> 
> Brian
> 
> P.S., It's probably a good idea to remove my r-b tag on the next post as
> well to avoid confusion and remind me that I need to take another look
> at this. ;) Thanks again.
Okay, I will remove it.

Thanks Brian!
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