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Diffstat (limited to 'block/file-posix.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | block/file-posix.c | 29 |
1 files changed, 20 insertions, 9 deletions
diff --git a/block/file-posix.c b/block/file-posix.c index 10b71d9a13..f37dfc10b3 100644 --- a/block/file-posix.c +++ b/block/file-posix.c @@ -1625,17 +1625,17 @@ static int handle_aiocb_write_zeroes(void *opaque) if (s->has_write_zeroes) { int ret = do_fallocate(s->fd, FALLOC_FL_ZERO_RANGE, aiocb->aio_offset, aiocb->aio_nbytes); - if (ret == -EINVAL) { - /* - * Allow falling back to pwrite for file systems that - * do not support fallocate() for an unaligned byte range. - */ - return -ENOTSUP; - } - if (ret == 0 || ret != -ENOTSUP) { + if (ret == -ENOTSUP) { + s->has_write_zeroes = false; + } else if (ret == 0 || ret != -EINVAL) { return ret; } - s->has_write_zeroes = false; + /* + * Note: Some file systems do not like unaligned byte ranges, and + * return EINVAL in such a case, though they should not do it according + * to the man-page of fallocate(). Thus we simply ignore this return + * value and try the other fallbacks instead. + */ } #endif @@ -1650,6 +1650,17 @@ static int handle_aiocb_write_zeroes(void *opaque) return ret; } s->has_fallocate = false; + } else if (ret == -EINVAL) { + /* + * Some file systems like older versions of GPFS do not like un- + * aligned byte ranges, and return EINVAL in such a case, though + * they should not do it according to the man-page of fallocate(). + * Warn about the bad filesystem and try the final fallback instead. + */ + warn_report_once("Your file system is misbehaving: " + "fallocate(FALLOC_FL_PUNCH_HOLE) returned EINVAL. " + "Please report this bug to your file sytem " + "vendor."); } else if (ret != -ENOTSUP) { return ret; } else { |