On Sun, Oct 06, 2019 at 05:46:02PM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> File systems like gfs2 don't support delayed allocations or unwritten
> extents and thus allocate normal mapped blocks to fill holes. To
> cover the case of such file systems allocating new blocks to fill holes
> also zero out mapped blocks with the new flag.
>
> Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx>
> Reviewed-by: Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> fs/iomap/buffered-io.c | 12 ++++++++++--
> 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/fs/iomap/buffered-io.c b/fs/iomap/buffered-io.c
> index 23cc308f971d..4132c0cccb0a 100644
> --- a/fs/iomap/buffered-io.c
> +++ b/fs/iomap/buffered-io.c
> @@ -207,6 +207,14 @@ iomap_read_inline_data(struct inode *inode, struct page *page,
> SetPageUptodate(page);
> }
>
> +static inline bool iomap_block_needs_zeroing(struct inode *inode,
> + struct iomap *iomap, loff_t pos)
> +{
> + return iomap->type != IOMAP_MAPPED ||
> + (iomap->flags & IOMAP_F_NEW) ||
> + pos >= i_size_read(inode);
This is a change of logic - why is the IOMAP_F_NEW check added here
and what bug does it fix?
Cheers,
Dave.
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Dave Chinner
david@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
