[Cluster-devel] [Ocfs2-devel] [PATCH 1/3] fs/buffer.c: add new api to allow eof writeback

Andrew Morton akpm at linux-foundation.org
Sun May 9 23:23:06 UTC 2021


On Mon, 26 Apr 2021 15:05:50 -0700 Junxiao Bi <junxiao.bi at oracle.com> wrote:

> When doing truncate/fallocate for some filesytem like ocfs2, it
> will zero some pages that are out of inode size and then later
> update the inode size, so it needs this api to writeback eof
> pages.

Seems reasonable.  But can we please update the
__block_write_full_page_eof() comment?  It now uses the wrong function
name and doesn't document the new `eof' argument.




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