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[09/10] xfs: remove the truncate short cut in xfs_map_blocks

Message ID 20190211125427.16577-10-hch@lst.de (mailing list archive)
State Superseded
Headers show
Series [01/10] xfs: remove the io_type field from the writeback context and ioend | expand

Commit Message

Christoph Hellwig Feb. 11, 2019, 12:54 p.m. UTC
Now that we properly handle the race with truncate in the delalloc
allocator there is no need to short cut this exceptional case earlier
on.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
---
 fs/xfs/xfs_aops.c | 20 --------------------
 1 file changed, 20 deletions(-)

Comments

Brian Foster Feb. 11, 2019, 3:22 p.m. UTC | #1
On Mon, Feb 11, 2019 at 01:54:26PM +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> Now that we properly handle the race with truncate in the delalloc
> allocator there is no need to short cut this exceptional case earlier
> on.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
> ---

Reviewed-by: Brian Foster <bfoster@redhat.com>

>  fs/xfs/xfs_aops.c | 20 --------------------
>  1 file changed, 20 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/fs/xfs/xfs_aops.c b/fs/xfs/xfs_aops.c
> index 403df647c0e4..6a8937a833ad 100644
> --- a/fs/xfs/xfs_aops.c
> +++ b/fs/xfs/xfs_aops.c
> @@ -426,26 +426,6 @@ xfs_map_blocks(
>  		xfs_iunlock(ip, XFS_ILOCK_SHARED);
>  
>  		wpc->fork = XFS_COW_FORK;
> -
> -		/*
> -		 * Truncate can race with writeback since writeback doesn't
> -		 * take the iolock and truncate decreases the file size before
> -		 * it starts truncating the pages between new_size and old_size.
> -		 * Therefore, we can end up in the situation where writeback
> -		 * gets a CoW fork mapping but the truncate makes the mapping
> -		 * invalid and we end up in here trying to get a new mapping.
> -		 * bail out here so that we simply never get a valid mapping
> -		 * and so we drop the write altogether.  The page truncation
> -		 * will kill the contents anyway.
> -		 */
> -		if (offset > i_size_read(inode)) {
> -			wpc->imap.br_blockcount = end_fsb - offset_fsb;
> -			wpc->imap.br_startoff = offset_fsb;
> -			wpc->imap.br_startblock = HOLESTARTBLOCK;
> -			wpc->imap.br_state = XFS_EXT_NORM;
> -			return 0;
> -		}
> -
>  		goto allocate_blocks;
>  	}
>  
> -- 
> 2.20.1
>
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Patch

diff --git a/fs/xfs/xfs_aops.c b/fs/xfs/xfs_aops.c
index 403df647c0e4..6a8937a833ad 100644
--- a/fs/xfs/xfs_aops.c
+++ b/fs/xfs/xfs_aops.c
@@ -426,26 +426,6 @@  xfs_map_blocks(
 		xfs_iunlock(ip, XFS_ILOCK_SHARED);
 
 		wpc->fork = XFS_COW_FORK;
-
-		/*
-		 * Truncate can race with writeback since writeback doesn't
-		 * take the iolock and truncate decreases the file size before
-		 * it starts truncating the pages between new_size and old_size.
-		 * Therefore, we can end up in the situation where writeback
-		 * gets a CoW fork mapping but the truncate makes the mapping
-		 * invalid and we end up in here trying to get a new mapping.
-		 * bail out here so that we simply never get a valid mapping
-		 * and so we drop the write altogether.  The page truncation
-		 * will kill the contents anyway.
-		 */
-		if (offset > i_size_read(inode)) {
-			wpc->imap.br_blockcount = end_fsb - offset_fsb;
-			wpc->imap.br_startoff = offset_fsb;
-			wpc->imap.br_startblock = HOLESTARTBLOCK;
-			wpc->imap.br_state = XFS_EXT_NORM;
-			return 0;
-		}
-
 		goto allocate_blocks;
 	}