Re: [PATCH 4/4] iomap: cleanup iomap_write_iter()

["Darrick J. Wong" <djwong@kernel.org>]

On Tue, Mar 12, 2024 at 05:24:00AM -0700, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 11, 2024 at 09:07:39AM -0700, Darrick J. Wong wrote:
> > If at some point iomap_write_end actually starts returning partial write
> > completions (e.g. you wrote 250 bytes, but for some reason the pagecache
> > only acknowledges 100 bytes were written) then this code no longer
> > reverts the iter or truncates posteof pagecache correctly...
> 
> I don't think it makes sense to return a partial write from
> iomap_write_end.  But to make that clear it really should not return
> a byte count by a boolean.  I've been wanting to make that cleanup
> for a while, but it would reach all the way into buffer.c.

For now, can we change the return types of iomap_write_end_inline and
__iomap_write_end?  Then iomap can WARN_ON if the block_write_end return
value isn't 0 or copied:

	bool ret;

	if (srcmap->type == IOMAP_INLINE) {
		ret = iomap_write_end_inline(iter, folio, pos, copied);
	} else if (srcmap->flags & IOMAP_F_BUFFER_HEAD) {
		size_t bh_written;

		bh_written = block_write_end(NULL, iter->inode->i_mapping,
				pos, len, copied, &folio->page, NULL);

		WARN_ON(bh_written != copied && bh_written != 0);
		ret = bh_written == copied;
	} else {
		ret = __iomap_write_end(iter->inode, pos, len, copied, folio);
	}

	...

	return ret;

Some day later we can circle back to bufferheads, or maybe they'll die
before we get to it. ;)

--D