Nick Piggin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> > status = __block_prepare_write(inode, new_page, zerofrom, >> > PAGE_CACHE_SIZE, get_block); >> > if (status) >> > @@ -2110,7 +2111,7 @@ >> > memset(kaddr+zerofrom, 0, PAGE_CACHE_SIZE-zerofrom); >> > flush_dcache_page(new_page); >> > kunmap_atomic(kaddr, KM_USER0); >> > - generic_commit_write(NULL, new_page, zerofrom, PAGE_CACHE_SIZE); >> > + __block_commit_write(inode, new_page, zerofrom, >> > PAGE_CACHE_SIZE); >> >> Whatever function this is doesn't need to update i_size? > > Yes, it is the code in cont_prepare_write that is expanding a hole > at the end of file. > > We can do this now because fat_commit_write is now changed to call > generic_commit_write in the case of a non-zero length. > > I think it is an improvement because now the file will not get > arbitrarily extended in the case of a write failure somewhere down > the track.
Ah, unfortunately we can't this. If we don't update ->i_size before page_cache_release, pdflush will think these pages is outside ->i_size and just clean the page without writing it. -- OGAWA Hirofumi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
