your patch "mm: Remove false WARN_ON from pagecache_isize_extended()"

From: Jan Beulich
Date: Mon Nov 03 2014 - 11:41:22 EST


Jan,

having run into that warning too, I looked into it a little, and now
having found that patch am pretty uncertain: Both truncate_setsize()
and pagecache_isize_extended() document that they want to be
called with i_mutex held, so removing the WARN_ON() alone seems
either incomplete or wrong. What I found to work without violating
this documented requirement is the patch below.

Jan

--- a/fs/xfs/xfs_file.c
+++ b/fs/xfs/xfs_file.c
@@ -797,7 +797,7 @@ xfs_file_fallocate(
FALLOC_FL_COLLAPSE_RANGE | FALLOC_FL_ZERO_RANGE))
return -EOPNOTSUPP;

- xfs_ilock(ip, XFS_IOLOCK_EXCL);
+ xfs_rw_ilock(ip, XFS_IOLOCK_EXCL);
if (mode & FALLOC_FL_PUNCH_HOLE) {
error = xfs_free_file_space(ip, offset, len);
if (error)
@@ -877,7 +877,7 @@ xfs_file_fallocate(
}

out_unlock:
- xfs_iunlock(ip, XFS_IOLOCK_EXCL);
+ xfs_rw_iunlock(ip, XFS_IOLOCK_EXCL);
return error;
}



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