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iomap_zero_range() flushes pagecache to mitigate consistency problems with dirty pagecache and unwritten mappings. The flush is unconditional over the entire range because checking pagecache state after mapping lookup is racy with writeback and reclaim. There are ways around this using iomap's mapping revalidation mechanism, but this is not supported by all iomap based filesystems and so is not a generic solution. There is another way around this limitation that is good enough to filter the flush for most cases in practice. If we check for dirty pagecache over the target range (instead of unconditionally flush), we can keep track of whether the range was dirty before lookup and defer the flush until/unless we see a combination of dirty cache backed by an unwritten mapping. We don't necessarily know whether the dirty cache was backed by the unwritten maping or some other (written) part of the range, but the impliciation of a false positive here is a spurious flush and thus relatively harmless. Note that we also flush for hole mappings because iomap_zero_range() is used for partial folio zeroing in some cases. For example, if a folio straddles EOF on a sub-page FSB size fs, the post-eof portion is hole-backed and dirtied/written via mapped write, and then i_size increases before writeback can occur (which otherwise zeroes the post-eof portion of the EOF folio), then the folio becomes inconsistent with disk until reclaimed. A flush in this case executes partial zeroing from writeback, and iomap knows that there is otherwise no I/O to submit for hole backed mappings. Signed-off-by: Brian Foster <bfoster@redhat.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240830145634.138439-3-bfoster@redhat.com Reviewed-by: Darrick J. Wong <djwong@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Josef Bacik <josef@toxicpanda.com> Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the reStructuredText markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.