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As an optimization, I was trying to work on exiting early from this function if dealing with unwritten extent since they anyways read 0. However, it was realised that there are certain code paths that can end up calling ext4_block_zero_page_range() for an unwritten bh that might still have data in pagecache. In this case, we can't exit early and we do require to process the bh and zero out the pagecache to ensure that a writeback can't kick in at a later time and flush the stale pagecache to disk. Since, adding the logic to exit early for unwritten bh was turning out to be much more nuanced and the current code already handles it well, just add a comment to explicitly document this behavior. Suggested-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Ojaswin Mujoo <ojaswin@linux.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/d859b7ae5fe42e6626479b91ed9f4da3aae4c597.1698856309.git.ojaswin@linux.ibm.com Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Linux kernel
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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
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There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text 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.