Re: [f2fs-dev] [PATCH 15/20] f2fs: support subpage blocks in atomic writes

From: Chao Yu

Date: Tue Nov 10 2026 - 06:52:39 EST


On 11/3/26 03:39, Daeho Jeong wrote:
> From: Daeho Jeong <daehojeong@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Writeback already writes dirty blocks to the COW inode per block. Make
> write_begin of atomic files reserve and read COW blocks per block as
> well, and remove the -EOPNOTSUPP checks. Skipping the read of the
> blocks that a write fully covers also applies to large folios when the
> block size equals PAGE_SIZE.

With this patch atomic files are allowed in subpage mode, so
f2fs_abort_atomic_write(inode, true) can extend i_size back to
original_i_size (e.g. after F2FS_IOC_START_ATOMIC_REPLACE set it to 0).
FI_ATOMIC_FILE is cleared before i_size is restored and abort doesn't hold
invalidate_lock, so a racing mmap fault can run ->page_mkwrite() with the
small i_size and map the folio writable; stores to its blocks between the
old EOF and original_i_size then don't fault and aren't marked dirty.
Should we call pagecache_isize_extended() after restoring i_size there, as
patch 08 does for the other i_size extension paths?

Thanks,

>
> Signed-off-by: Daeho Jeong <daehojeong@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> fs/f2fs/data.c | 24 ++++++++++++++++--------
> fs/f2fs/file.c | 5 +----
> 2 files changed, 17 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/fs/f2fs/data.c b/fs/f2fs/data.c
> index a23fd4b01a4c..4e4d1b0d6004 100644
> --- a/fs/f2fs/data.c
> +++ b/fs/f2fs/data.c
> @@ -4624,7 +4624,7 @@ static int f2fs_write_cache_folios(struct address_space *mapping,
> }
>
> if (f2fs_has_subpage_blocks(sbi) &&
> - (f2fs_compressed_file(inode) || f2fs_is_atomic_file(inode))) {
> + f2fs_compressed_file(inode)) {
> WARN_ON_ONCE(1);
> mapping_set_error(mapping, -EOPNOTSUPP);
> folio_clear_dirty_for_io(folio);
> @@ -5247,7 +5247,7 @@ static int prepare_large_folio_write_begin(struct inode *inode,
> int err = 0;
>
> if (f2fs_has_subpage_blocks(sbi) &&
> - (f2fs_compressed_file(inode) || f2fs_is_atomic_file(inode)))
> + f2fs_compressed_file(inode))
> return -EOPNOTSUPP;
>
> /*
> @@ -5359,13 +5359,16 @@ static int prepare_large_folio_atomic_write_begin(struct inode *inode,
> /* Inline data must have been converted before reaching here. */
> f2fs_bug_on(sbi, f2fs_has_inline_data(inode));
>
> - start = folio->index + (ori_off >> PAGE_SHIFT);
> - end = folio->index + ((ori_off + len - 1) >> PAGE_SHIFT);
> + start = f2fs_folio_lblk(sbi, folio) + (ori_off >> sbi->log_blocksize);
> + end = f2fs_folio_lblk(sbi, folio) +
> + ((ori_off + len - 1) >> sbi->log_blocksize);
>
> for (index = start; index <= end; index++) {
> + loff_t block_start = F2FS_BLK_TO_BYTES(sbi, index);
> + loff_t block_end = block_start + F2FS_BLKSIZE(sbi);
> block_t blkaddr = NULL_ADDR;
> bool node_changed = false;
> - size_t off = (index - folio->index) << PAGE_SHIFT;
> + size_t off = f2fs_folio_byte_offset(sbi, folio, index);
>
> err = prepare_atomic_write_begin(sbi, inode, index,
> &blkaddr, &node_changed,
> @@ -5373,12 +5376,17 @@ static int prepare_large_folio_atomic_write_begin(struct inode *inode,
> if (err)
> return err;
>
> + /* Skip read if the write covers the entire block. */
> + if (pos <= block_start && pos + len >= block_end)
> + goto balance;
> +
> if (f2fs_ffs_test_blk_uptodate(folio, index))
> goto balance;
>
> if (blkaddr == NEW_ADDR) {
> - folio_zero_segment(folio, off, off + PAGE_SIZE);
> - f2fs_ffs_mark_subrange_uptodate(folio, off, PAGE_SIZE);
> + folio_zero_segment(folio, off, off + F2FS_BLKSIZE(sbi));
> + f2fs_ffs_mark_subrange_uptodate(folio, off,
> + F2FS_BLKSIZE(sbi));
> goto balance;
> }
>
> @@ -5436,7 +5444,7 @@ static int f2fs_write_begin(const struct kiocb *iocb,
> }
>
> if (f2fs_has_subpage_blocks(sbi) &&
> - (f2fs_compressed_file(inode) || f2fs_is_atomic_file(inode))) {
> + f2fs_compressed_file(inode)) {
> err = -EOPNOTSUPP;
> goto fail;
> }
> diff --git a/fs/f2fs/file.c b/fs/f2fs/file.c
> index 1c440b5fa9bd..91f792cf879f 100644
> --- a/fs/f2fs/file.c
> +++ b/fs/f2fs/file.c
> @@ -2299,7 +2299,7 @@ static long f2fs_fallocate(struct file *file, int mode,
> }
>
> if (f2fs_has_subpage_blocks(F2FS_I_SB(inode))) {
> - if (f2fs_is_atomic_file(inode) || f2fs_compressed_file(inode)) {
> + if (f2fs_compressed_file(inode)) {
> ret = -EOPNOTSUPP;
> goto out;
> }
> @@ -2553,9 +2553,6 @@ static int f2fs_ioc_start_atomic_write(struct file *filp, bool truncate)
> loff_t isize;
> int ret;
>
> - if (f2fs_has_subpage_blocks(sbi))
> - return -EOPNOTSUPP;
> -
> if (!(filp->f_mode & FMODE_WRITE))
> return -EBADF;
>