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Commit de14b9cb authored by Ross Zwisler's avatar Ross Zwisler Committed by Linus Torvalds
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dax: fix conversion of holes to PMDs



When we get a DAX PMD fault for a write it is possible that there could
be some number of 4k zero pages already present for the same range that
were inserted to service reads from a hole.  These 4k zero pages need to
be unmapped from the VMAs and removed from the struct address_space
radix tree before the real DAX PMD entry can be inserted.

For PTE faults this same use case also exists and is handled by a
combination of unmap_mapping_range() to unmap the VMAs and
delete_from_page_cache() to remove the page from the address_space radix
tree.

For PMD faults we do have a call to unmap_mapping_range() (protected by
a buffer_new() check), but nothing clears out the radix tree entry.  The
buffer_new() check is also incorrect as the current ext4 and XFS
filesystem code will never return a buffer_head with BH_New set, even
when allocating new blocks over a hole.  Instead the filesystem will
zero the blocks manually and return a buffer_head with only BH_Mapped
set.

Fix this situation by removing the buffer_new() check and adding a call
to truncate_inode_pages_range() to clear out the radix tree entries
before we insert the DAX PMD.

Signed-off-by: default avatarRoss Zwisler <ross.zwisler@linux.intel.com>
Reported-by: default avatarDan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Tested-by: default avatarDan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarJan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@fieldses.org>
Cc: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Andreas Dilger <adilger.kernel@dilger.ca>
Cc: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Jeff Layton <jlayton@poochiereds.net>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <matthew.r.wilcox@intel.com>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
parent d4bbe706
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