Re: [PATCH v2 4/6] iomap: correct the dirty length in page mkwrite
From: Christoph Hellwig
Date: Wed Aug 14 2024 - 01:36:43 EST
On Mon, Aug 12, 2024 at 08:11:57PM +0800, Zhang Yi wrote:
> From: Zhang Yi <yi.zhang@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> When doing page mkwrite, iomap_folio_mkwrite_iter() dirty the entire
> folio by folio_mark_dirty() even the map length is shorter than one
> folio. However, on the filesystem with more than one blocks per folio,
> we'd better to only set counterpart block's dirty bit according to
> iomap_length(), so open code folio_mark_dirty() and pass the correct
> length.
What about moving the folio_mark_dirty out of the loop and directly
into iomap_page_mkwrite so that it is exactly called once? The
iterator then does nothing for the !buffer_head case (but we still
need to call it to allocate the blocks).