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xfs: reject all unaligned direct writes to reflinked files
authorChristoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Mon, 6 Feb 2017 21:00:54 +0000 (13:00 -0800)
committerDarrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@oracle.com>
Tue, 7 Feb 2017 01:47:46 +0000 (17:47 -0800)
commit54a4ef8af4e0dc5c983d17fcb9cf5fd25666d94e
tree47f55c2f61169e2774cd73770c2237ff9356a5ec
parent4dd2eb633598cb6a5a0be2fd9a2be0819f5eeb5f
xfs: reject all unaligned direct writes to reflinked files

We currently fall back from direct to buffered writes if we detect a
remaining shared extent in the iomap_begin callback.  But by the time
iomap_begin is called for the potentially unaligned end block we might
have already written most of the data to disk, which we'd now write
again using buffered I/O.  To avoid this reject all writes to reflinked
files before starting I/O so that we are guaranteed to only write the
data once.

The alternative would be to unshare the unaligned start and/or end block
before doing the I/O. I think that's doable, and will actually be
required to support reflinks on DAX file system.  But it will take a
little more time and I'd rather get rid of the double write ASAP.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Brian Foster <bfoster@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@oracle.com>
fs/xfs/xfs_file.c
fs/xfs/xfs_iomap.c
fs/xfs/xfs_trace.h