Date: Thu, 20 Mar 2008 04:35:12 -0400
From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: "Aneesh Kumar K.V" <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Subject: Re: ZERO_PAGE(0) usage in ext4
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On Mon, Mar 17, 2008 at 11:22:30PM +0530, Aneesh Kumar K.V wrote:
> Hi Christoph,
> 
> I have changes pending for ext4 which uses ZERO_PAGE(0) to zero out
> file system blocks.
> 
> http://repo.or.cz/w/ext4-patch-queue.git?a=blob;f=ext4-fallocate-full-fs-ENOSPC-handling.patch;h=e14ec2a53f008c3f4b80544a897165de4bb5d360;hb=HEAD
> 
> The changes are needed to make sure we allow writing to prealloc space
> even when there are no space left in the file system to insert new
> extent details. To use ZERO_PAGE in ext4 i would need patches to export
> some of the variables. I found that you answered Ted's patch at
> 
> http://ozlabs.org/pipermail/linuxppc-dev/2008-March/052956.html
> 
> I have a patch that does the same thing for multiple arch. Can you help
> me understand what you meant by zeroing helpers ?

Ok, you're actually sending down the page and not copying from it.
This is probab;y okay.