Re: [PATCH v3 5/7] xfs: fill dirty folios on zero range of unwritten mappings

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On Tue, Jul 15, 2025 at 08:35:51AM -0400, Brian Foster wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 14, 2025 at 10:28:11PM -0700, Darrick J. Wong wrote:
> > On Mon, Jul 14, 2025 at 04:41:20PM -0400, Brian Foster wrote:
> > > Use the iomap folio batch mechanism to select folios to zero on zero
> > > range of unwritten mappings. Trim the resulting mapping if the batch
> > > is filled (unlikely for current use cases) to distinguish between a
> > > range to skip and one that requires another iteration due to a full
> > > batch.
> > > 
> > > Signed-off-by: Brian Foster <bfoster@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > > Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx>
> > > ---
> > >  fs/xfs/xfs_iomap.c | 23 +++++++++++++++++++++++
> > >  1 file changed, 23 insertions(+)
> > > 
> > > diff --git a/fs/xfs/xfs_iomap.c b/fs/xfs/xfs_iomap.c
> > > index b5cf5bc6308d..63054f7ead0e 100644
> > > --- a/fs/xfs/xfs_iomap.c
> > > +++ b/fs/xfs/xfs_iomap.c
> > > @@ -1691,6 +1691,8 @@ xfs_buffered_write_iomap_begin(
> > >  	struct iomap		*iomap,
> > >  	struct iomap		*srcmap)
> > >  {
> > > +	struct iomap_iter	*iter = container_of(iomap, struct iomap_iter,
> > > +						     iomap);
> > >  	struct xfs_inode	*ip = XFS_I(inode);
> > >  	struct xfs_mount	*mp = ip->i_mount;
> > >  	xfs_fileoff_t		offset_fsb = XFS_B_TO_FSBT(mp, offset);
> > > @@ -1762,6 +1764,7 @@ xfs_buffered_write_iomap_begin(
> > >  	 */
> > >  	if (flags & IOMAP_ZERO) {
> > >  		xfs_fileoff_t eof_fsb = XFS_B_TO_FSB(mp, XFS_ISIZE(ip));
> > > +		u64 end;
> > >  
> > >  		if (isnullstartblock(imap.br_startblock) &&
> > >  		    offset_fsb >= eof_fsb)
> > > @@ -1769,6 +1772,26 @@ xfs_buffered_write_iomap_begin(
> > >  		if (offset_fsb < eof_fsb && end_fsb > eof_fsb)
> > >  			end_fsb = eof_fsb;
> > >  
> > > +		/*
> > > +		 * Look up dirty folios for unwritten mappings within EOF.
> > > +		 * Providing this bypasses the flush iomap uses to trigger
> > > +		 * extent conversion when unwritten mappings have dirty
> > > +		 * pagecache in need of zeroing.
> > > +		 *
> > > +		 * Trim the mapping to the end pos of the lookup, which in turn
> > > +		 * was trimmed to the end of the batch if it became full before
> > > +		 * the end of the mapping.
> > > +		 */
> > > +		if (imap.br_state == XFS_EXT_UNWRITTEN &&
> > > +		    offset_fsb < eof_fsb) {
> > > +			loff_t len = min(count,
> > > +					 XFS_FSB_TO_B(mp, imap.br_blockcount));
> > > +
> > > +			end = iomap_fill_dirty_folios(iter, offset, len);
> > > +			end_fsb = min_t(xfs_fileoff_t, end_fsb,
> > > +					XFS_B_TO_FSB(mp, end));
> > 
> > Hrmm.  XFS_B_TO_FSB and not _FSBT?  Can the rounding up behavior result
> > in a missed byte range?  I think the answer is no because @end should be
> > aligned to a folio boundary, and folios can't be smaller than an
> > fsblock.
> > 
> 
> Hmm.. not that I'm aware of..? Please elaborate if there's a case you're
> suspicious of because I could have certainly got my wires crossed.

I don't have a specific case in mind.  I saw the conversion function and
thought "well, what IF the return value from iomap_fill_dirty_folios
isn't aligned to a fsblock?" and then went around trying to prove that
isn't possible. :)

> My thinking is that end_fsb reflects the first fsb beyond the target
> range. I.e., it's calculated and used as such in xfs_iomap_end_fsb() and
> the various xfs_trim_extent() calls throughout the rest of the function.

<nod> So I think we're fine here.

--D

> Brian
> 
> > If the answer to the second question is indeed "no" then I think this is
> > ok and
> > Reviewed-by: "Darrick J. Wong" <djwong@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > 
> > --D
> > 
> > 
> > > +		}
> > > +
> > >  		xfs_trim_extent(&imap, offset_fsb, end_fsb - offset_fsb);
> > >  	}
> > >  
> > > -- 
> > > 2.50.0
> > > 
> > > 
> > 
> 
> 




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