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authorDavid Chinner <dgc@sgi.com>2007-02-12 11:51:41 +0300
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org>2007-02-12 20:48:27 +0300
commit33a266dda9fbbe72dd978a451a8ee33c59da5e9c (patch)
tree7e3fa4100e436f12b4c0ed562dd1f6dc9ec84fd4 /include
parent42da9cbd3eedde33a42acc2cb06f454814cf5de0 (diff)
downloadlinux-33a266dda9fbbe72dd978a451a8ee33c59da5e9c.tar.xz
[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>
Diffstat (limited to 'include')
-rw-r--r--include/linux/buffer_head.h2
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/buffer_head.h b/include/linux/buffer_head.h
index 5d9fb0e94156..ffbdb6621f52 100644
--- a/include/linux/buffer_head.h
+++ b/include/linux/buffer_head.h
@@ -34,6 +34,7 @@ enum bh_state_bits {
BH_Write_EIO, /* I/O error on write */
BH_Ordered, /* ordered write */
BH_Eopnotsupp, /* operation not supported (barrier) */
+ BH_Unwritten, /* Buffer is allocated on disk but not written */
BH_PrivateStart,/* not a state bit, but the first bit available
* for private allocation by other entities
@@ -126,6 +127,7 @@ BUFFER_FNS(Boundary, boundary)
BUFFER_FNS(Write_EIO, write_io_error)
BUFFER_FNS(Ordered, ordered)
BUFFER_FNS(Eopnotsupp, eopnotsupp)
+BUFFER_FNS(Unwritten, unwritten)
#define bh_offset(bh) ((unsigned long)(bh)->b_data & ~PAGE_MASK)
#define touch_buffer(bh) mark_page_accessed(bh->b_page)