Ritesh Harjani (IBM)
299537e9df
atomic writes is currently only supported for single fsblock and only for direct-io. We should not return -ENOTBLK for atomic writes since we want the atomic write request to either complete fully or fail otherwise. Hence, we should never fallback to buffered-io in case of DIO atomic write requests. Let's also catch if this ever happens by adding some WARN_ON_ONCE before buffered-io handling for direct-io atomic writes. More details of the discussion [1]. While at it let's add an inline helper ext4_want_directio_fallback() which simplifies the logic checks and inherently fixes condition on when to return -ENOTBLK which otherwise was always returning true for any write or directio in ext4_iomap_end(). It was ok since ext4 only supports direct-io via iomap. [1]: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-xfs/cover.1729825985.git.ritesh.list@gmail.com/T/#m9dbecc11bed713ed0d7a486432c56b105b555f04 Suggested-by: Darrick J. Wong <djwong@kernel.org> # inline helper Signed-off-by: Ritesh Harjani (IBM) <ritesh.list@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Darrick J. Wong <djwong@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong <djwong@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the reStructuredText markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.