[PATCH v3 0/7] hfsplus: convert regular file I/O to iomap-based operations

From: Viacheslav Dubeyko

Date: Tue Sep 08 2026 - 17:51:22 EST


This series moves HFS+ regular file data I/O off the legacy
buffer_head/blockdev_direct_IO() path onto iomap-based operations with
the goal to retire the older buffer_head-based direct I/O infrastructure.

v2
Christoph Hellwig has detected that taking the page lock around
the kmap/modify/kunmap section is not enough on its own:
writeback drops the page lock before the write actually completes,
so a mutator that only waits on the lock can still start rewriting
a page whose old contents are still in flight to the device.
Mark the allocation file's mapping with mapping_set_stable_writes()
and call folio_wait_stable() right after taking the page lock in
both functions, so a mutator also waits out any writeback that was
already in progress when it acquired the lock.

Christoph Hellwig suggested to introduce a generalized version
of iomap_dio_end_io() that was placed into include/linux/iomap.h.

The hfsplus_btree_aops uses hfsplus_btree_read_folio() and
hfsplus_btree_writepages() methods. The hfsplus_symlink_aops
uses hfsplus_symlink_read_folio() and hfsplus_symlink_writepages()
methods. Also, hfsplus_setattr() doesn't distinguish the regular
and not regular file cases anymore.

v3
Matthew Wilcox recommended to use folio_wait_writeback()
instead of folio_wait_stable().

Fix failures in generic/091, generic/521, and generic/551.

Viacheslav Dubeyko (7):
hfs/hfsplus: exchange hardcoded number of extents on named constants
hfsplus: rework hfsplus_get_block() logic
hfsplus: take the bitmap page lock for allocate/free
hfsplus: add iomap operations for regular file data
hfsplus: move file related operations to file.c
hfsplus: introduce iomap-based file_operations
hfsplus: switch address_space_operations on iomap-based support

fs/hfsplus/Kconfig | 2 +-
fs/hfsplus/Makefile | 5 +-
fs/hfsplus/bitmap.c | 18 +++
fs/hfsplus/extents.c | 164 ++++++++++++++------
fs/hfsplus/file.c | 304 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
fs/hfsplus/hfsplus_fs.h | 26 +++-
fs/hfsplus/inode.c | 281 ++++++++++------------------------
fs/hfsplus/iomap.c | 192 +++++++++++++++++++++++
fs/hfsplus/iomap.h | 18 +++
include/linux/hfs_common.h | 8 +-
include/linux/iomap.h | 20 +++
11 files changed, 787 insertions(+), 251 deletions(-)
create mode 100644 fs/hfsplus/file.c
create mode 100644 fs/hfsplus/iomap.c
create mode 100644 fs/hfsplus/iomap.h

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