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SubjectRe: [PATCH 1/7] ext2: tell DAX the size of allocation holes
On Tue, Aug 16, 2016 at 11:10:25AM +0200, Jan Kara wrote:
> On Mon 15-08-16 13:09:12, Ross Zwisler wrote:
> > When DAX calls ext2_get_block() and the file offset points to a hole we
> > currently don't set bh_result->b_size. When we re-enable PMD faults DAX
> > will need bh_result->b_size to tell it the size of the hole so it can
> > decide whether to fault in a 4 KiB zero page or a 2 MiB zero page.
> >
> > For ext2 we always want DAX to use 4 KiB zero pages, so we just tell DAX
> > that all holes are 4 KiB in size.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Ross Zwisler <ross.zwisler@linux.intel.com>
> > ---
> > fs/ext2/inode.c | 6 ++++++
> > 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)
> >
> > diff --git a/fs/ext2/inode.c b/fs/ext2/inode.c
> > index d5c7d09..c6d9763 100644
> > --- a/fs/ext2/inode.c
> > +++ b/fs/ext2/inode.c
> > @@ -773,6 +773,12 @@ int ext2_get_block(struct inode *inode, sector_t iblock, struct buffer_head *bh_
> > if (ret > 0) {
> > bh_result->b_size = (ret << inode->i_blkbits);
> > ret = 0;
> > + } else if (ret == 0 && IS_DAX(inode)) {
>
> I'd just drop the IS_DAX() check and set
>
> bh_result->b_size = 1 << inode->i_blkbits;
>
> IMO it's better to have things consistent between DAX & !DAX whenever
> possible.

Agreed, this is better. Fixed for v2, thanks!

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