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ext4: disable merging of uninitialized extents
authorDmitry Monakhov <[email protected]>
Mon, 4 Mar 2013 05:36:06 +0000 (00:36 -0500)
committerTheodore Ts'o <[email protected]>
Mon, 4 Mar 2013 05:36:06 +0000 (00:36 -0500)
commitec22ba8edb507395c95fbc617eea26a6b2d98797
treea04ffae5cd5f0d1724aa64f26046d5f85bb75af5
parent357b66fdc8ad4cea6e6336956a70742f961f0a4d
ext4: disable merging of uninitialized extents

Derived from Jan's patch:http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.file-systems.ext4/36470

Merging of uninitialized extents creates all sorts of interesting race
possibilities when writeback / DIO races with fallocate. Thus
ext4_convert_unwritten_extents_endio() has to deal with a case where
extent to be converted needs to be split out first. That isn't nice
for two reasons:

1) It may need allocation of extent tree block so ENOSPC is possible.
2) It complicates end_io handling code

So we disable merging of uninitialized extents which allows us to simplify
the code. Extents will get merged after they are converted to initialized
ones.

Signed-off-by: Dmitry Monakhov <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <[email protected]>
fs/ext4/extents.c
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