Hi, This set of patches are aimed to allow truncate_inode_pages_range() handle ranges which are not aligned at the end of the page. Currently it will hit BUG_ON() when the end of the range is not aligned. Punch hole feature however can benefit from this ability saving file systems some work not forcing them to implement their own invalidate code to handle unaligned ranges. In order for this to woke we need change ->invalidatepage() address space operation to to accept range to invalidate by adding 'length' argument in addition to 'offset'. This is different from my previous attempt to create new aop ->invalidatepage_range (http://lwn.net/Articles/514828/) which I reconsidered to be unnecessary. It would be for the best if this series could go through ext4 branch since there are a lot of ext4 changes which are based on dev branch of ext4 (git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/ext4.git) For description purposes this patch set can be divided into following groups: patch 0001: Change ->invalidatepage() prototype adding 'length' argument and changing all the instances. In very simple cases file system methods are completely adapted, otherwise only prototype is changed and the rest will follow. This patch also implement the 'range' invalidation in block_invalidatepage(). patch 0002 - 0009: Make the use of new 'length' argument in the file system itself. Some file systems can take advantage of it trying to invalidate only portion of the page if possible, some can't, however none of the file systems currently attempt to truncate non page aligned ranges. patch 0010: Teach truncate_inode_pages_range() to handle non page aligned ranges. patch 0011 - 0020: Ext4 changes build on top of previous changes, simplifying punch hole code. Not all changes are realated specifically to invalidatepage() change, but all are related to the punch hole feature. Even though this patch set would mainly affect functionality of the file file systems implementing punch hole I've tested all the following file system using xfstests without noticing any bugs related to this change. ext3, ext4, xfs, btrfs, gfs2 and reiserfs I've also tested block size < page size on ext4 with xfstests and fsx. v3 -> v4: Some minor changes based on the reviews. Added two ext4 patches as suggested by Jan Kara. Thanks! -Lukas -- Documentation/filesystems/Locking | 6 +- Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt | 20 +- fs/9p/vfs_addr.c | 5 +- fs/afs/file.c | 10 +- fs/btrfs/disk-io.c | 3 +- fs/btrfs/extent_io.c | 2 +- fs/btrfs/inode.c | 3 +- fs/buffer.c | 21 ++- fs/ceph/addr.c | 15 +- fs/cifs/file.c | 5 +- fs/exofs/inode.c | 6 +- fs/ext3/inode.c | 9 +- fs/ext4/ext4.h | 14 +- fs/ext4/extents.c | 96 ++++++---- fs/ext4/inode.c | 402 ++++++++++++++----------------------- fs/ext4/super.c | 1 + fs/f2fs/data.c | 3 +- fs/f2fs/node.c | 3 +- fs/gfs2/aops.c | 17 +- fs/jbd/transaction.c | 19 ++- fs/jbd2/transaction.c | 24 ++- fs/jfs/jfs_metapage.c | 5 +- fs/logfs/file.c | 3 +- fs/logfs/segment.c | 3 +- fs/nfs/file.c | 8 +- fs/ntfs/aops.c | 2 +- fs/ocfs2/aops.c | 5 +- fs/reiserfs/inode.c | 12 +- fs/ubifs/file.c | 5 +- fs/xfs/xfs_aops.c | 14 +- fs/xfs/xfs_trace.h | 15 +- include/linux/buffer_head.h | 3 +- include/linux/fs.h | 2 +- include/linux/jbd.h | 2 +- include/linux/jbd2.h | 2 +- include/linux/mm.h | 3 +- include/trace/events/ext3.h | 12 +- include/trace/events/ext4.h | 64 ++++--- mm/readahead.c | 2 +- mm/truncate.c | 117 ++++++++---- 40 files changed, 503 insertions(+), 460 deletions(-) [PATCH v4 01/20] mm: change invalidatepage prototype to accept [PATCH v4 02/20] jbd2: change jbd2_journal_invalidatepage to accept [PATCH v4 03/20] ext4: use ->invalidatepage() length argument [PATCH v4 04/20] jbd: change journal_invalidatepage() to accept [PATCH v4 05/20] xfs: use ->invalidatepage() length argument [PATCH v4 06/20] ocfs2: use ->invalidatepage() length argument [PATCH v4 07/20] ceph: use ->invalidatepage() length argument [PATCH v4 08/20] gfs2: use ->invalidatepage() length argument [PATCH v4 09/20] reiserfs: use ->invalidatepage() length argument [PATCH v4 10/20] mm: teach truncate_inode_pages_range() to handle [PATCH v4 11/20] Revert "ext4: remove no longer used functions in [PATCH v4 12/20] ext4: Call ext4_jbd2_file_inode() after zeroing [PATCH v4 13/20] Revert "ext4: fix fsx truncate failure" [PATCH v4 14/20] ext4: truncate_inode_pages() in orphan cleanup path [PATCH v4 15/20] ext4: use ext4_zero_partial_blocks in punch_hole [PATCH v4 16/20] ext4: remove unused discard_partial_page_buffers [PATCH v4 17/20] ext4: remove unused code from ext4_remove_blocks() [PATCH v4 18/20] ext4: update ext4_ext_remove_space trace point [PATCH v4 19/20] ext4: make punch hole code path work with bigalloc [PATCH v4 20/20] ext4: Allow punch hole with bigalloc enabled -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@xxxxxxxxx. 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