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Andreas Gruenbacher 334fd34d76 vfs: Add page_cache_seek_hole_data helper
Both ext4 and xfs implement seeking for the next hole or piece of data
in unwritten extents by scanning the page cache, and both versions share
the same bug when iterating the buffers of a page: the start offset into
the page isn't taken into account, so when a page fits more than two
filesystem blocks, things will go wrong.  For example, on a filesystem
with a block size of 1k, the following command will fail:

  xfs_io -f -c "falloc 0 4k" \
            -c "pwrite 1k 1k" \
            -c "pwrite 3k 1k" \
            -c "seek -a -r 0" foo

In this example, neither lseek(fd, 1024, SEEK_HOLE) nor lseek(fd, 2048,
SEEK_DATA) will return the correct result.

Introduce a generic vfs helper for seeking in the page cache that gets
this right.  The next commits will replace the filesystem specific
implementations.

Signed-off-by: Andreas Gruenbacher <agruenba@redhat.com>
[hch: dropped the export]
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>
2017-07-02 22:46:13 -07:00
arch mm: larger stack guard gap, between vmas 2017-06-19 21:50:20 +08:00
block block: Fix a blk_exit_rl() regression 2017-06-14 13:27:50 -06:00
certs scripts/spelling.txt: add "intialise(d)" pattern and fix typo instances 2017-05-08 17:15:13 -07:00
crypto crypto : asymmetric_keys : verify_pefile:zero memory content before freeing 2017-06-09 13:29:50 +10:00
Documentation mm: larger stack guard gap, between vmas 2017-06-19 21:50:20 +08:00
drivers virtio: bugfix 2017-06-19 09:25:05 +09:00
firmware firmware/Makefile: force recompilation if makefile changes 2017-05-08 17:15:10 -07:00
fs vfs: Add page_cache_seek_hole_data helper 2017-07-02 22:46:13 -07:00
include vfs: Add page_cache_seek_hole_data helper 2017-07-02 22:46:13 -07:00
init Merge branch 'core-rcu-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2017-05-10 10:30:46 -07:00
ipc mm: introduce kv[mz]alloc helpers 2017-05-08 17:15:12 -07:00
kernel Merge branch 'timers-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2017-06-18 18:46:51 +09:00
lib Merge branch 'linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/herbert/crypto-2.6 2017-06-15 17:54:51 +09:00
mm mm: larger stack guard gap, between vmas 2017-06-19 21:50:20 +08:00
net net: don't global ICMP rate limit packets originating from loopback 2017-06-14 15:33:58 -04:00
samples samples/bpf: run cleanup routines when receiving SIGTERM 2017-05-11 21:43:30 -04:00
scripts scripts/gdb: make lx-dmesg command work (reliably) 2017-06-02 15:07:38 -07:00
security selinux: fix double free in selinux_parse_opts_str() 2017-06-13 17:34:22 +10:00
sound ALSA: timer: Fix missing queue indices reset at SNDRV_TIMER_IOCTL_SELECT 2017-06-07 10:25:23 +02:00
tools Merge branch 'perf-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2017-06-18 18:42:31 +09:00
usr initramfs: fix disabling of initramfs (and its compression) 2017-06-02 15:07:37 -07:00
virt KVM: arm/arm64: Handle possible NULL stage2 pud when ageing pages 2017-06-06 15:28:40 +02:00
.cocciconfig scripts: add Linux .cocciconfig for coccinelle 2016-07-22 12:13:39 +02:00
.get_maintainer.ignore Add hch to .get_maintainer.ignore 2015-08-21 14:30:10 -07:00
.gitattributes .gitattributes: set git diff driver for C source code files 2016-10-07 18:46:30 -07:00
.gitignore kbuild: Add support to generate LLVM assembly files 2017-04-25 08:13:52 +09:00
.mailmap power supply and reset changes for the v4.12 series (part 2) 2017-05-12 12:02:21 -07:00
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CREDITS avr32: remove support for AVR32 architecture 2017-05-01 09:27:15 +02:00
Kbuild kbuild: Consolidate header generation from ASM offset information 2017-04-13 05:43:37 +09:00
Kconfig
MAINTAINERS A few overdue GPIO patches for the v4.12 kernel: 2017-06-11 11:34:27 -07:00
Makefile Linux 4.12-rc6 2017-06-19 22:19:37 +08:00
README README: add a new README file, pointing to the Documentation/ 2016-10-24 08:12:35 -02:00

Linux kernel
============

This file was moved to Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst

Please notice that there are several guides for kernel developers and users.
These guides can be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.

There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
See Documentation/00-INDEX for a list of what is contained in each file.

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.