From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Brian Foster <bfoster@redhat.com>
Cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-xfs@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 1/8] xfs: fix iomap hole map reporting for zoned zero range
Date: Mon, 9 Mar 2026 23:45:20 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <aa--AD_UM6UKv5ma@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260309134506.167663-2-bfoster@redhat.com>
On Mon, Mar 09, 2026 at 09:44:59AM -0400, Brian Foster wrote:
> The hole mapping logic for zero range in zoned mode is not quite
> correct. It currently reports a hole whenever one exists in the data
> fork. If the first write to a sparse range has completed and not yet
> written back, the blocks exist in the COW fork as delalloc until
> writeback completes, at which point they are allocated and mapped
> into the data fork. If a zero range occurs on a range that has not
> yet populated the data fork, we will incorrectly report it as a
> hole.
>
> Note that this currently functions correctly because we are bailed
> out by the pagecache flush in iomap_zero_range(). If a hole or
> unwritten mapping is reported with dirty pagecache, it assumes there
> is pending data, flushes to induce any pending block
> allocations/remaps, and retries the lookup. We want to remove this
> hack from iomap, however, so update iomap_begin() to only report a
> hole for zeroing when one exists in both forks.
>
> Signed-off-by: Brian Foster <bfoster@redhat.com>
Looks good:
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-03-10 6:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-03-09 13:44 [PATCH v3 0/8] iomap, xfs: improve zero range flushing and lookup Brian Foster
2026-03-09 13:44 ` [PATCH v3 1/8] xfs: fix iomap hole map reporting for zoned zero range Brian Foster
2026-03-09 17:11 ` Darrick J. Wong
2026-03-09 18:18 ` Brian Foster
2026-03-10 14:47 ` Darrick J. Wong
2026-03-10 6:45 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2026-03-09 13:45 ` [PATCH v3 2/8] xfs: flush dirty pagecache over hole in zoned mode " Brian Foster
2026-03-09 17:22 ` Darrick J. Wong
2026-03-09 18:19 ` Brian Foster
2026-03-10 6:47 ` Christoph Hellwig
2026-03-10 14:48 ` Darrick J. Wong
2026-03-10 6:45 ` Christoph Hellwig
2026-03-09 13:45 ` [PATCH v3 3/8] iomap, xfs: lift zero range hole mapping flush into xfs Brian Foster
2026-03-09 17:40 ` Darrick J. Wong
2026-03-10 6:47 ` Christoph Hellwig
2026-03-09 13:45 ` [PATCH v3 4/8] xfs: flush eof folio before insert range size update Brian Foster
2026-03-09 17:32 ` Darrick J. Wong
2026-03-09 18:24 ` Brian Foster
2026-03-09 13:45 ` [PATCH v3 5/8] xfs: look up cow fork extent earlier for buffered iomap_begin Brian Foster
2026-03-09 13:45 ` [PATCH v3 6/8] xfs: only flush when COW fork blocks overlap data fork holes Brian Foster
2026-03-09 17:47 ` Darrick J. Wong
2026-03-09 13:45 ` [PATCH v3 7/8] xfs: replace zero range flush with folio batch Brian Foster
2026-03-09 17:48 ` Darrick J. Wong
2026-03-09 13:45 ` [PATCH v3 8/8] xfs: report cow mappings with dirty pagecache for iomap zero range Brian Foster
2026-03-09 17:56 ` Darrick J. Wong
2026-03-09 18:31 ` Brian Foster
2026-03-09 18:38 ` Darrick J. Wong
2026-03-10 6:50 ` Christoph Hellwig
2026-03-10 14:52 ` Darrick J. Wong
2026-03-10 14:59 ` Christoph Hellwig
2026-03-10 6:49 ` Christoph Hellwig
2026-03-10 6:45 ` [PATCH v3 0/8] iomap, xfs: improve zero range flushing and lookup Christoph Hellwig
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