Re: [PATCH 19/23] truncate: support huge pages

[Kirill A. Shutemov]

Dave Hansen wrote:
> On 08/03/2013 07:17 PM, Kirill A. Shutemov wrote:
> > If a huge page is only partly in the range we zero out the part,
> > exactly like we do for partial small pages.
> 
> What's the logic behind this behaviour?  Seems like the kind of place
> that we would really want to be splitting pages.

split_huge_page() now truncates the file, so we need to break
truncate<->split interdependency at some point.

> Like I said before, I somehow like to rewrite your code. :)

Makes sense. Please, take a look on patch below.