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SubjectRe: [RFC] changes to buffer.c (was Test12 ll_rw_block error)


On Thursday, December 21, 2000 20:54:09 -0500 Alexander Viro <viro@math.psu.edu> wrote:

>
>
> On Thu, 21 Dec 2000, Chris Mason wrote:
>
>> Obvious bug, block_write_full_page zeros out the bits past the end of
>> file every time. This should not be needed for normal file writes.
>
> Unfortunately, it _is_ needed for pageout path. mmap() the last page
> of file. Dirty the data past the EOF (MMU will not catch that access).
> Let the pageout send the page to disk. You don't want to have the data
> past EOF end up on the backstore.
>

Sorry, I wasn't very clear. I'd like to find a way to just do the memset in the one case it is needed (a real writepage), and not do it when we are using writepage just to flush dirty buffers. I don't see how to do it though, without making a new flush operation. That would also solve my concerns about the change in writepage semantics (even though every FS I could find in the kernel tree was using block_write_full_page).

thanks,
Chris


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