From ec22ba8edb507395c95fbc617eea26a6b2d98797 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Dmitry Monakhov Date: Mon, 4 Mar 2013 00:36:06 -0500 Subject: [PATCH] ext4: disable merging of uninitialized extents Derived from Jan's patch:http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.file-systems.ext4/36470 Merging of uninitialized extents creates all sorts of interesting race possibilities when writeback / DIO races with fallocate. Thus ext4_convert_unwritten_extents_endio() has to deal with a case where extent to be converted needs to be split out first. That isn't nice for two reasons: 1) It may need allocation of extent tree block so ENOSPC is possible. 2) It complicates end_io handling code So we disable merging of uninitialized extents which allows us to simplify the code. Extents will get merged after they are converted to initialized ones. Signed-off-by: Dmitry Monakhov Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" Reviewed-by: Jan Kara --- Reading git-format-patch failed