On Mon, Jan 18, 2021 at 08:35:15PM +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> Add a flag to signal an I/O that is not file system block aligned.
>
> Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx>
> ---
> fs/iomap/direct-io.c | 7 +++++++
> include/linux/iomap.h | 8 ++++++++
> 2 files changed, 15 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/fs/iomap/direct-io.c b/fs/iomap/direct-io.c
> index 32dbbf7dd4aadb..d93019ee4c9e3e 100644
> --- a/fs/iomap/direct-io.c
> +++ b/fs/iomap/direct-io.c
> @@ -485,6 +485,13 @@ __iomap_dio_rw(struct kiocb *iocb, struct iov_iter *iter,
> iomap_flags |= IOMAP_NOWAIT;
> }
>
> + if (dio_flags & IOMAP_DIO_UNALIGNED) {
> + ret = -EAGAIN;
> + if (pos >= dio->i_size)
> + goto out_free_dio;
> + iomap_flags |= IOMAP_UNALIGNED;
> + }
> +
> ret = filemap_write_and_wait_range(mapping, pos, end);
> if (ret)
> goto out_free_dio;
> diff --git a/include/linux/iomap.h b/include/linux/iomap.h
> index b322598dc10ec0..2fa94ec9583d0a 100644
> --- a/include/linux/iomap.h
> +++ b/include/linux/iomap.h
> @@ -122,6 +122,7 @@ struct iomap_page_ops {
> #define IOMAP_FAULT (1 << 3) /* mapping for page fault */
> #define IOMAP_DIRECT (1 << 4) /* direct I/O */
> #define IOMAP_NOWAIT (1 << 5) /* do not block */
> +#define IOMAP_UNALIGNED (1 << 6) /* do not allocate blocks */
>
> struct iomap_ops {
> /*
> @@ -262,6 +263,13 @@ struct iomap_dio_ops {
> */
> #define IOMAP_DIO_FORCE_WAIT (1 << 0)
>
> +/*
> + * Direct I/O that is not aligned to the file system block. Do not allocate
> + * blocks and do not zero partial blocks, fall back to the caller by returning
> + * -EAGAIN instead.
> + */
> +#define IOMAP_DIO_UNALIGNED (1 << 1)
The code changes look fine, but as for the name, I found it a little
confusing even after changing it to IOMAP_DIO_SUBBLOCK.
See my reply to patch 11 for more details.
--D
> +
> ssize_t iomap_dio_rw(struct kiocb *iocb, struct iov_iter *iter,
> const struct iomap_ops *ops, const struct iomap_dio_ops *dops,
> unsigned int flags);
> --
> 2.29.2
>
