This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
ext4: allow DAX writeback for hole punch
to the 4.4-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
The filename of the patch is:
ext4-allow-dax-writeback-for-hole-punch.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.4 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
>From cca32b7eeb4ea24fa6596650e06279ad9130af98 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Ross Zwisler <ross.zwisler@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 22 Sep 2016 11:49:38 -0400
Subject: ext4: allow DAX writeback for hole punch
From: Ross Zwisler <ross.zwisler@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
commit cca32b7eeb4ea24fa6596650e06279ad9130af98 upstream.
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>
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@xxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
fs/ext4/inode.c | 4 ++--
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
--- a/fs/ext4/inode.c
+++ b/fs/ext4/inode.c
@@ -3645,7 +3645,7 @@ int ext4_update_disksize_before_punch(st
}
/*
- * 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
@@ -3674,7 +3674,7 @@ int ext4_punch_hole(struct inode *inode,
* 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)
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from ross.zwisler@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx are
queue-4.4/ext4-allow-dax-writeback-for-hole-punch.patch
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