Currently when doing a DAX hole punch with ext4 we fail to do a writeback. This is because the logic around filemap_write_and_wait_range() in ext4_punch_hole() only looks for dirty page cache pages in the radix tree, not for dirty DAX exceptional entries. Signed-off-by: Ross Zwisler <ross.zwisler@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxx> Cc: <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/ext4/inode.c | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/fs/ext4/inode.c b/fs/ext4/inode.c index 3131747..0900cb4 100644 --- a/fs/ext4/inode.c +++ b/fs/ext4/inode.c @@ -3890,7 +3890,7 @@ int ext4_update_disksize_before_punch(struct inode *inode, loff_t offset, } /* - * ext4_punch_hole: punches a hole in a file by releaseing the blocks + * ext4_punch_hole: punches a hole in a file by releasing the blocks * associated with the given offset and length * * @inode: File inode @@ -3919,7 +3919,7 @@ int ext4_punch_hole(struct inode *inode, loff_t offset, loff_t length) * Write out all dirty pages to avoid race conditions * Then release them. */ - if (mapping->nrpages && mapping_tagged(mapping, PAGECACHE_TAG_DIRTY)) { + if (mapping_tagged(mapping, PAGECACHE_TAG_DIRTY)) { ret = filemap_write_and_wait_range(mapping, offset, offset + length - 1); if (ret) -- 2.7.4 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-xfs" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html