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While we can only truncate a block under the page lock for the current page, there is no high-level synchronization for moving extents from the COW to the data fork. This means that for example we can have another thread doing a direct I/O completion that moves extents from the COW to the data fork race with writeback. While this race is very hard to hit the always_cow seems to reproduce it reasonably well, and it also exists without that. Because of that there is a chance that a delalloc conversion for the COW fork might not find any extents to convert. In that case we should retry the whole block lookup and now find the blocks in the data fork. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Reviewed-by: Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@oracle.com>
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.