Re: [PATCH] tmpfs: truncate at i_size

From: Hugh Dickins
Date: Tue Jun 16 2015 - 16:02:49 EST


On Tue, 19 May 2015, Josef Bacik wrote:

> If we fallocate past i_size with KEEP_SIZE, extend the file to use some but not
> all of this space, and then truncate(i_size) we won't trim the excess
> preallocated space. We decided at LSF that we want to truncate the fallocated
> bit past i_size when we truncate to i_size, which is what this patch does.
> Thanks,
>
> Signed-off-by: Josef Bacik <jbacik@xxxxxx>

Sorry for the delay, it's been on my mind but only now I get to it.
Yes, that was agreed at LSF, and I've checked that indeed tmpfs is
out of line here: thank you for fixing it. But I do prefer your
original more explicit description, so I'll send the patch to akpm
now for v4.2, with that description instead (plus a reference to LSF).

Thanks,
Hugh

> ---
> mm/shmem.c | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/mm/shmem.c b/mm/shmem.c
> index de98137..089afde 100644
> --- a/mm/shmem.c
> +++ b/mm/shmem.c
> @@ -569,7 +569,7 @@ static int shmem_setattr(struct dentry *dentry, struct iattr *attr)
> i_size_write(inode, newsize);
> inode->i_ctime = inode->i_mtime = CURRENT_TIME;
> }
> - if (newsize < oldsize) {
> + if (newsize <= oldsize) {
> loff_t holebegin = round_up(newsize, PAGE_SIZE);
> unmap_mapping_range(inode->i_mapping, holebegin, 0, 1);
> shmem_truncate_range(inode, newsize, (loff_t)-1);
> --
> 1.8.3.1
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