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-rw-r--r--fs/ext4/inode.c6
-rw-r--r--fs/ext4/page-io.c9
2 files changed, 8 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/fs/ext4/inode.c b/fs/ext4/inode.c
index eb4ddfe..d6e4f0e 100644
--- a/fs/ext4/inode.c
+++ b/fs/ext4/inode.c
@@ -3643,12 +3643,6 @@ void ext4_truncate(struct inode *inode)
return;
}
- /*
- * finish any pending end_io work so we won't run the risk of
- * converting any truncated blocks to initialized later
- */
- ext4_flush_unwritten_io(inode);
-
if (ext4_test_inode_flag(inode, EXT4_INODE_EXTENTS))
credits = ext4_writepage_trans_blocks(inode);
else
diff --git a/fs/ext4/page-io.c b/fs/ext4/page-io.c
index 755741c..0f65561 100644
--- a/fs/ext4/page-io.c
+++ b/fs/ext4/page-io.c
@@ -158,7 +158,14 @@ static void ext4_clear_io_unwritten_flag(ext4_io_end_t *io_end)
wake_up_all(ext4_ioend_wq(inode));
}
-/* check a range of space and convert unwritten extents to written. */
+/*
+ * Check a range of space and convert unwritten extents to written. Note that
+ * we are protected from truncate touching same part of extent tree by the
+ * fact that truncate code waits for all DIO to finish (thus exclusion from
+ * direct IO is achieved) and also waits for PageWriteback bits. Thus we
+ * cannot get to ext4_ext_truncate() before all IOs overlapping that range are
+ * completed (happens from ext4_free_ioend()).
+ */
static int ext4_end_io(ext4_io_end_t *io)
{
struct inode *inode = io->inode;