[Devel] [PATCH RH7] ploop: Add comment in cached_submit()
Kirill Tkhai
ktkhai at virtuozzo.com
Thu Jan 21 20:28:31 MSK 2021
Signed-off-by: Kirill Tkhai <ktkhai at virtuozzo.com>
---
drivers/block/ploop/io_direct.c | 4 ++++
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)
diff --git a/drivers/block/ploop/io_direct.c b/drivers/block/ploop/io_direct.c
index dff12e2276bb..f24a3db23a62 100644
--- a/drivers/block/ploop/io_direct.c
+++ b/drivers/block/ploop/io_direct.c
@@ -414,6 +414,10 @@ cached_submit(struct ploop_io *io, iblock_t iblk, struct ploop_request * preq,
if (prealloc > PLOOP_MAX_PREALLOC(plo))
prealloc = PLOOP_MAX_PREALLOC(plo);
try_again:
+ /*
+ * Keep in mind, fallocate() allocates space iteratively,
+ * so power down in middle may leave unaligned tail blocks.
+ */
err = io->files.file->f_op->fallocate(io->files.file, 0,
pos, prealloc);
if (err) {
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