[PATCH v3 00/11] exfat: convert to iomap

From: Namjae Jeon

Date: Wed May 13 2026 - 07:22:59 EST


This patch series converts the exfat filesystem to the iomap framework for
buffered I/O, direct I/O, and llseek (SEEK_HOLE/SEEK_DATA) support.

iozone benchmark results (4KB cluster size, -s1g -r64k, 1GB file, 64KB record size)

1 thread 4 threads
Write Read Write Read
(MB/s) (MB/s) (MB/s) (MB/s)
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exfat + iomap patch 332.7 418.1 78.6 82.4
Current exfat 278.4 415.1 42.1 38.0
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Improvement +19.5% +0.7% +86.7% +117.4%


Available in the Git repository at:
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/linkinjeon/exfat.git iomap-work


v3:
- Remove extra >> 9 when adding to inode->i_blocks.
- Simplify exfat_file_open() by removing unnecessary err variable.
- Separate exfat_truncate() error return conversion from iomap changes.
- Fix xfstests failures with 512B cluster size.
- Make exfat_truncate() return error code.
- Use inode lock to protect valid_size in exfat_extend_valid_size().
- Unify num_clusters calculation regardless of may_alloc.
- Use min_t() to clamp iomap->length.
- Return early in exfat_write_iomap_end() if no data written.
- Remove s_lock in exfat_write_iomap_end().
- Split DIO fallback buffered write into helper function.
- Remove unnecessary goto in exfat_dio_write_iter().

v2:
- Replace macros with static inline functions.
- Remove noop_direct_IO.
- Consolidate read and write iomap_begin into __exfat_iomap_begin()
- Zero out stale data in straddle block beyond valid_size.
- Introduce IOMAP_F_ZERO_TAIL flag to remove exfat_iomap_put_folio().
- Select FS_IOMAP in Kconfig.
- Remove unnecessary alignment check in exfat_file_read_iter().
- Just use generic_file_llseek directly.
- Move exfat_extend_valid_size to exfat_file_write_iter().
- Use pagecache_isize_extended() to remove iomap_zero_range in
exfat_setattr().
- fix mmap write data corruption with byte-by-byte fallocate.
- Remove exfat_mkwrite_iomap_begin().

Namjae Jeon (11):
iomap: introduce IOMAP_F_ZERO_TAIL flag
exfat: replace unsafe macros with static inline functions
exfat: add balloc parameter to exfat_map_cluster() for iomap support
exfat: add exfat_file_open()
exfat: add support for multi-cluster allocation
exfat: add data_start_bytes and exfat_cluster_to_phys() helper
exfat: fix implicit declaration of brelse()
exfat: add iomap buffered I/O support
exfat: add iomap direct I/O support
exfat: add support for SEEK_HOLE and SEEK_DATA in llseek
exfat: make exfat_truncate() return error code

fs/exfat/Kconfig | 2 +-
fs/exfat/Makefile | 2 +-
fs/exfat/balloc.c | 2 +-
fs/exfat/dir.c | 50 +++---
fs/exfat/exfat_fs.h | 140 ++++++++++++-----
fs/exfat/fatent.c | 30 ++--
fs/exfat/file.c | 262 +++++++++++++++++++++++--------
fs/exfat/inode.c | 342 ++++++-----------------------------------
fs/exfat/iomap.c | 266 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
fs/exfat/iomap.h | 15 ++
fs/exfat/namei.c | 28 ++--
fs/exfat/super.c | 5 +-
fs/iomap/buffered-io.c | 4 +
include/linux/iomap.h | 4 +
14 files changed, 705 insertions(+), 447 deletions(-)
create mode 100644 fs/exfat/iomap.c
create mode 100644 fs/exfat/iomap.h

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