From: Ross Zwisler Date: Thu, 22 Sep 2016 15:49:38 +0000 (-0400) Subject: ext4: allow DAX writeback for hole punch X-Git-Tag: firefly_0821_release~176^2~4^2~23^2~7 X-Git-Url: http://demsky.eecs.uci.edu/git/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=2db2fd9538e40e905d174c2d1067c99b58a98d7a;p=firefly-linux-kernel-4.4.55.git ext4: allow DAX writeback for hole punch commit cca32b7eeb4ea24fa6596650e06279ad9130af98 upstream. 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 Reviewed-by: Jan Kara Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- diff --git a/fs/ext4/inode.c b/fs/ext4/inode.c index 9189b0a7b211..c71d2941a45b 100644 --- a/fs/ext4/inode.c +++ b/fs/ext4/inode.c @@ -3645,7 +3645,7 @@ int ext4_update_disksize_before_punch(struct inode *inode, loff_t offset, } /* - * ext4_punch_hole: punches a hole in a file by releaseing the blocks + * ext4_punch_hole: punches a hole in a file by releasing the blocks * associated with the given offset and length * * @inode: File inode @@ -3674,7 +3674,7 @@ int ext4_punch_hole(struct inode *inode, loff_t offset, loff_t length) * Write out all dirty pages to avoid race conditions * Then release them. */ - if (mapping->nrpages && mapping_tagged(mapping, PAGECACHE_TAG_DIRTY)) { + if (mapping_tagged(mapping, PAGECACHE_TAG_DIRTY)) { ret = filemap_write_and_wait_range(mapping, offset, offset + length - 1); if (ret)