From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: "Pankaj Raghav (Samsung)" <pankaj.raghav@linux.dev>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
Pankaj Raghav <p.raghav@samsung.com>,
linux-xfs@vger.kernel.org, bfoster@redhat.com, lukas@herbolt.com,
"Darrick J . Wong" <djwong@kernel.org>,
dgc@kernel.org, gost.dev@samsung.com, andres@anarazel.de,
kundan.kumar@samsung.com, cem@kernel.org,
Zhang Yi <yi.zhang@huawei.com>,
linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-api@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v6 3/3] xfs: add support for FALLOC_FL_WRITE_ZEROES
Date: Thu, 18 Jun 2026 02:36:00 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <ajO8AHsMFolUQLra@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <au3yznolpebvd5vphmzv73fzosdy7bxrb45kv56n734jnwwj3l@43d7sqlef27k>
On Thu, Jun 18, 2026 at 11:28:15AM +0200, Pankaj Raghav (Samsung) wrote:
> > But I guess not unaligned FALLOC_FL_WRITE_ZEROES?
>
> -r readbdy: 4096 would make reads page aligned (default 1)
> -t truncbdy: 4096 would make truncates page aligned (default 1)
> -w writebdy: 4096 would make writes page aligned (default 1)
>
> FALLOC_FL_WRITE_ZEROES comes under truncate. So I would assume we also
> do that. That is how I also found the issue with offset > EOF. I will
> take a look or else, I will add a test case to test this condition!
A targeted test using xfs_io that does FALLOC_FL_WRITE_ZEROES on an
unaligned range and then checks that the data around it is preserved
while the unaligned data in the range is zeroed would also be useful.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-06-18 9:36 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-06-11 11:40 [PATCH v6 0/3] add FALLOC_FL_WRITE_ZEROES support to xfs Pankaj Raghav
2026-06-11 11:40 ` [PATCH v6 1/3] xfs: widen xfs_setfilesize() size argument to xfs_off_t Pankaj Raghav
2026-06-16 13:15 ` Christoph Hellwig
2026-06-11 11:40 ` [PATCH v6 2/3] xfs: add an allocation mode to xfs_alloc_file_space() Pankaj Raghav
2026-06-16 13:15 ` Christoph Hellwig
2026-06-11 11:40 ` [PATCH v6 3/3] xfs: add support for FALLOC_FL_WRITE_ZEROES Pankaj Raghav
2026-06-16 13:31 ` Christoph Hellwig
2026-06-17 9:44 ` Pankaj Raghav (Samsung)
2026-06-18 3:22 ` Zhang Yi
2026-06-18 8:18 ` Pankaj Raghav (Samsung)
2026-06-18 8:57 ` Christoph Hellwig
2026-06-18 8:59 ` Christoph Hellwig
2026-06-18 10:26 ` Zhang Yi
2026-06-18 9:00 ` Christoph Hellwig
2026-06-18 9:28 ` Pankaj Raghav (Samsung)
2026-06-18 9:36 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2026-06-18 13:26 ` Pankaj Raghav (Samsung)
2026-06-18 13:37 ` Christoph Hellwig
2026-06-18 13:57 ` Pankaj Raghav (Samsung)
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