ext4: fix ext4_ext_direct_IO()'s return value after converting uninit extents

After a direct I/O request covering an uninitalized extent (i.e.,
created using the fallocate system call) or a hole in a file, ext4
will convert the uninitialized extent so it is marked as initialized
by calling ext4_convert_unwritten_extents().  This function returns
zero on success.

This return value was getting returned by ext4_direct_IO(); however
the file system's direct_IO function is supposed to return the number
of bytes read or written on a success.  By returning zero, it confused
the direct I/O code into falling back to buffered I/O unnecessarily.

Signed-off-by: Mingming Cao <cmm@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
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Mingming
2009-11-10 10:48:08 -05:00
committed by Theodore Ts'o
parent fa5d11133b
commit 109f556519
2 changed files with 8 additions and 3 deletions

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@ -3519,6 +3519,7 @@ retry:
*
* This function is called from the direct IO end io call back
* function, to convert the fallocated extents after IO is completed.
* Returns 0 on success.
*/
int ext4_convert_unwritten_extents(struct inode *inode, loff_t offset,
loff_t len)