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authorJan Kara <jack@suse.cz>2016-05-13 00:38:15 -0400
committerTheodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>2016-05-13 00:38:15 -0400
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tree9a749224ef5cf24d556f5f08bcae93714520c3c8 /Documentation
parent816cd71b0c723a7296d14aadb8ff1ba42f6181d2 (diff)
dax: call get_blocks() with create == 1 for write faults to unwritten extents
Currently, __dax_fault() does not call get_blocks() callback with create argument set, when we got back unwritten extent from the initial get_blocks() call during a write fault. This is because originally filesystems were supposed to convert unwritten extents to written ones using complete_unwritten() callback. Later this was abandoned in favor of using pre-zeroed blocks however the condition whether get_blocks() needs to be called with create == 1 remained. Fix the condition so that filesystems are not forced to zero-out and convert unwritten extents when get_blocks() is called with create == 0 (which introduces unnecessary overhead for read faults and can be problematic as the filesystem may possibly be read-only). Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
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