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SubjectRe: [PATCH] ext4: allow DAX writeback for hole punch
On Wed, Aug 17, 2016 at 07:19:55PM +0200, Jan Kara wrote:
> On Wed 17-08-16 10:11:02, Ross Zwisler wrote:
> > Currently when doing a DAX hole punch with ext4 we fail to do a writeback.
> > This is because the logic around filemap_write_and_wait_range() in
> > ext4_punch_hole() only looks for dirty page cache pages in the radix tree,
> > not for dirty DAX exceptional entries.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Ross Zwisler <ross.zwisler@linux.intel.com>
>
> Thanks. The patch looks correct, you can add:
>
> Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
>
> Although why don't we just simplify the test below to
> mapping_tagged(mapping, PAGECACHE_TAG_DIRTY)? After all the mapping should
> not have the dirty tag set if there are no pages / no entries?

Sure, that works. I'll update to that in V2, and I'll add stable. Thanks!

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