Re: [PATCH v4 1/3] ext4: add discard/zeroout flags to journal flush

[Leah Rumancik <leah.rumancik@gmail.com>]

On Thu, May 13, 2021 at 02:09:26PM -0400, Theodore Ts'o wrote:
> > +
> > +	err = jbd2_journal_bmap(journal, log_offset, &block_start);
> > +	if (err) {
> > +		printk(KERN_ERR "JBD2: bad block at offset %lu", log_offset);
> > +		return err;
> > +	}
> 
> We could get rid of this, and instead make sure block_start is initialized
> to ~((unsigned long long) 0).  Then in the loop we can do...
> 
> > +
> > +	/*
> > +	 * use block_start - 1 to meet check for contiguous with previous region:
> > +	 * phys_block == block_stop + 1
> > +	 */
> > +	block_stop = block_start - 1;
> > +
> > +	for (block = log_offset; block < journal->j_total_len; block++) {
> > +		err = jbd2_journal_bmap(journal, block, &phys_block);
> > +		if (err) {
> > +			printk(KERN_ERR "JBD2: bad block at offset %lu", block);
> > +			return err;
> > +		}
> 
> 		if (block_start == ~((unsigned long long) 0)) {
> 			block_start = phys_block;
> 			block_Stop = block_start - 1;
> 		}
> 
> > +
> > +		if (block == journal->j_total_len - 1) {
> > +			block_stop = phys_block;
> > +		} else if (phys_block == block_stop + 1) {
> > +			block_stop++;
> > +			continue;
> > +		}
> > +
> > +		/*
> > +		 * not contiguous with prior physical block or this is last
> > +		 * block of journal, take care of the region
> > +		 */
> > +		byte_start = block_start * journal->j_blocksize;
> > +		byte_stop = block_stop * journal->j_blocksize;
> > +		byte_count = (block_stop - block_start + 1) *
> > +				journal->j_blocksize;
> > +
> > +		truncate_inode_pages_range(journal->j_dev->bd_inode->i_mapping,
> > +				byte_start, byte_stop);
> > +
> > +		if (flags & JBD2_ERASE_FLAG_DISCARD) {
> > +			err = blkdev_issue_discard(journal->j_dev,
> > +					byte_start >> SECTOR_SHIFT,
> > +					byte_count >> SECTOR_SHIFT,
> > +					GFP_NOFS, 0);
> > +		} else if (flags & JBD2_ERASE_FLAG_ZEROOUT) {
> > +			err = blkdev_issue_zeroout(journal->j_dev,
> > +					byte_start >> SECTOR_SHIFT,
> > +					byte_count >> SECTOR_SHIFT,
> > +					GFP_NOFS, 0);
> > +		}
> > +
> > +		if (unlikely(err != 0)) {
> > +			printk(KERN_ERR "JBD2: (error %d) unable to wipe journal at physical blocks %llu - %llu",
> > +					err, block_start, block_stop);
> > +			return err;
> > +		}
> > +
> > +		block_start = phys_block;
> > +		block_stop = phys_block;
> 
> Is this right?  When we initialized the loop, above, block_stop was
> set to block_start-1 (where block_start == phys_block).  So I think it
> might be more correct to replace the above two lines with:
> 
> 		block_start = ~((unsigned long long) 0);
> 
> ... and then let block_start and block_stop be initialized in a single
> place.  Do you agree?  Does this make sense to you?

I just tried this and it actually wouldn't work with this setup because
phys_block would be set after the new call to bmap instead of keeping the value
from the end of the prior loop. However, I have reworked the code using the
general idea of the block_start reset you proposed and I will submit this in
the next version.

Thanks,
Leah

> 
> 	       	       	    	      	    - Ted