[PATCH] Make BH_Unwritten a first class bufferhead flag V2

Currently, XFS uses BH_PrivateStart for flagging unwritten extent state in a
bufferhead.  Recently, I found the long standing mmap/unwritten extent
conversion bug, and it was to do with partial page invalidation not clearing
the unwritten flag from bufferheads attached to the page but beyond EOF.  See
here for a full explaination:

http://oss.sgi.com/archives/xfs/2006-12/msg00196.html

The solution I have checked into the XFS dev tree involves duplicating code
from block_invalidatepage to clear the unwritten flag from the bufferhead(s),
and then calling block_invalidatepage() to do the rest.

Christoph suggested that this would be better solved by pushing the unwritten
flag into the common buffer head flags and just adding the call to
discard_buffer():

http://oss.sgi.com/archives/xfs/2006-12/msg00239.html

The following patch makes BH_Unwritten a first class citizen.

Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dgc@sgi.com>
Acked-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
This commit is contained in:
David Chinner
2007-02-12 00:51:41 -08:00
committed by Linus Torvalds
parent 42da9cbd3e
commit 33a266dda9
3 changed files with 5 additions and 11 deletions

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@@ -109,16 +109,6 @@
#undef HAVE_PERCPU_SB /* per cpu superblock counters are a 2.6 feature */
#endif
/*
* State flag for unwritten extent buffers.
*
* We need to be able to distinguish between these and delayed
* allocate buffers within XFS. The generic IO path code does
* not need to distinguish - we use the BH_Delay flag for both
* delalloc and these ondisk-uninitialised buffers.
*/
BUFFER_FNS(PrivateStart, unwritten);
#define restricted_chown xfs_params.restrict_chown.val
#define irix_sgid_inherit xfs_params.sgid_inherit.val
#define irix_symlink_mode xfs_params.symlink_mode.val