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 <ross.zwisler@linux.intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
}
/*
- * 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
* 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)