Re: [PATCH v3] ocfs2: Let ocfs2_setattr use new truncate sequence.

From: Joel Becker
Date: Thu Jun 10 2010 - 02:00:38 EST


Acked-by: Joel Becker <joel.becker@xxxxxxxxxx>

Al, can you carry this atop the truncate sequence code?

Joel

On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 01:08:05PM +0800, Tao Ma wrote:
> Let ocfs2 use the new truncate sequence. The changes include:
> 1. Use truncate_setsize directly since we don't implement our
> own ->truncate and what we need is "update i_size and
> truncate_pagecache" which truncate_setsize now does.
> 2. For direct write, ocfs2 actually don't allow write to pass
> i_size(see ocfs2_prepare_inode_for_write), so we don't have
> a chance to increase i_size. So remove the bogus check.
>
> Cc: Joel Becker <joel.becker@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx>
> Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@xxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Tao Ma <tao.ma@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> fs/ocfs2/file.c | 32 ++++++--------------------------
> 1 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 26 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/fs/ocfs2/file.c b/fs/ocfs2/file.c
> index 1fb0985..8b5447e 100644
> --- a/fs/ocfs2/file.c
> +++ b/fs/ocfs2/file.c
> @@ -987,7 +987,7 @@ int ocfs2_setattr(struct dentry *dentry, struct iattr *attr)
> if (status)
> goto bail_unlock;
>
> - if (i_size_read(inode) > attr->ia_size) {
> + if (inode->i_size > attr->ia_size) {
> if (ocfs2_should_order_data(inode)) {
> status = ocfs2_begin_ordered_truncate(inode,
> attr->ia_size);
> @@ -1052,22 +1052,13 @@ int ocfs2_setattr(struct dentry *dentry, struct iattr *attr)
> }
>
> /*
> - * This will intentionally not wind up calling truncate_setsize(),
> - * since all the work for a size change has been done above.
> - * Otherwise, we could get into problems with truncate as
> - * ip_alloc_sem is used there to protect against i_size
> - * changes.
> - *
> - * XXX: this means the conditional below can probably be removed.
> + * Since all the work for a size change has been done above.
> + * Call truncate_setsize directly to change size and truncate
> + * pagecache.
> */
> if ((attr->ia_valid & ATTR_SIZE) &&
> - attr->ia_size != i_size_read(inode)) {
> - status = vmtruncate(inode, attr->ia_size);
> - if (status) {
> - mlog_errno(status);
> - goto bail_commit;
> - }
> - }
> + attr->ia_size != inode->i_size)
> + truncate_setsize(inode, attr->ia_size);
>
> setattr_copy(inode, attr);
> mark_inode_dirty(inode);
> @@ -2122,17 +2113,6 @@ relock:
> written = generic_file_direct_write(iocb, iov, &nr_segs, *ppos,
> ppos, count, ocount);
> if (written < 0) {
> - /*
> - * direct write may have instantiated a few
> - * blocks outside i_size. Trim these off again.
> - * Don't need i_size_read because we hold i_mutex.
> - *
> - * XXX(truncate): this looks buggy because ocfs2 did not
> - * actually implement ->truncate. Take a look at
> - * the new truncate sequence and update this accordingly
> - */
> - if (*ppos + count > inode->i_size)
> - truncate_setsize(inode, inode->i_size);
> ret = written;
> goto out_dio;
> }
> --
> 1.5.5
>

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Joel Becker
Principal Software Developer
Oracle
E-mail: joel.becker@xxxxxxxxxx
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