Re: [PATCH 2/3] afs: Fix afs_write_end() to handle short writes

[David Howells]

Matthew Wilcox <willy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> > -	ASSERT(PageUptodate(page));
> > -
> >  	if (PagePrivate(page)) {
> >  		priv = page_private(page);
> >  		f = afs_page_dirty_from(page, priv);
> 
> Why are you removing this assertion?  Does AFS now support dirty,
> partially-uptodate pages?  If so, a subsequent read() to that
> page is going to need to be careful to only read the parts of the page
> from the server that haven't been written ...

Because the previous hunk in the patch:

	+	if (!PageUptodate(page)) {
	+		if (copied < len) {
	+			copied = 0;
	+			goto out;
	+		}
	+
	+		SetPageUptodate(page);
	+	}

means you can't get there unless PageUptodate() is true by that point.

David