[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>
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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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@ -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)