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authorDavid Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>2009-11-19 18:11:52 +0000
committerDavid Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>2009-11-19 18:11:52 +0000
commita17754fb8c28af19cd70dcbec6d5b0773b94e0c1 (patch)
treed7c25b217c684153eadbac78ab9b1bbff08b75f6 /include
parent868411be3f445a83fafbd734f3e426400138add5 (diff)
downloadlinux-a17754fb8c28af19cd70dcbec6d5b0773b94e0c1.tar.gz
CacheFiles: Don't write a full page if there's only a partial page to cache
cachefiles_write_page() writes a full page to the backing file for the last
page of the netfs file, even if the netfs file's last page is only a partial
page.

This causes the EOF on the backing file to be extended beyond the EOF of the
netfs, and thus the backing file will be truncated by cachefiles_attr_changed()
called from cachefiles_lookup_object().

So we need to limit the write we make to the backing file on that last page
such that it doesn't push the EOF too far.

Also, if a backing file that has a partial page at the end is expanded, we
discard the partial page and refetch it on the basis that we then have a hole
in the file with invalid data, and should the power go out...  A better way to
deal with this could be to record a note that the partial page contains invalid
data until the correct data is written into it.

This isn't a problem for netfs's that discard the whole backing file if the
file size changes (such as NFS).

Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'include')
-rw-r--r--include/linux/fscache-cache.h3
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/fscache-cache.h b/include/linux/fscache-cache.h
index 907bb56c5888..5db50002f3b5 100644
--- a/include/linux/fscache-cache.h
+++ b/include/linux/fscache-cache.h
@@ -395,6 +395,7 @@ struct fscache_object {
 	struct rb_node		objlist_link;	/* link in global object list */
 #endif
 	pgoff_t			store_limit;	/* current storage limit */
+	loff_t			store_limit_l;	/* current storage limit */
 };
 
 extern const char *fscache_object_states[];
@@ -439,6 +440,7 @@ void fscache_object_init(struct fscache_object *object,
 	object->events = object->event_mask = 0;
 	object->flags = 0;
 	object->store_limit = 0;
+	object->store_limit_l = 0;
 	object->cache = cache;
 	object->cookie = cookie;
 	object->parent = NULL;
@@ -491,6 +493,7 @@ static inline void fscache_object_lookup_error(struct fscache_object *object)
 static inline
 void fscache_set_store_limit(struct fscache_object *object, loff_t i_size)
 {
+	object->store_limit_l = i_size;
 	object->store_limit = i_size >> PAGE_SHIFT;
 	if (i_size & ~PAGE_MASK)
 		object->store_limit++;