tree a04ffae5cd5f0d1724aa64f26046d5f85bb75af5
parent 357b66fdc8ad4cea6e6336956a70742f961f0a4d
author Dmitry Monakhov <dmonakhov@openvz.org> 1362375366 -0500
committer Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu> 1362375366 -0500

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 <dmonakhov@openvz.org>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>