ext4: don't release page refs in ext4_end_bio()
We can clear PageWriteback on each page when the IO completes, but we can't release the references on the page until we convert any uninitialized extents. Without this patch, the use of the dioread_nolock mount option can break buffered writes, because extents may not be converted by the time a subsequent buffered read comes in; if the page is not in the page cache, a read will return zeros if the extent is still uninitialized. I tested this with a (temporary) patch that adds a call to msleep(1000) at the start of ext4_end_io_work(), to delay processing of each DIO-unwritten work queue item. With this msleep(), a simple workload of fallocate write fadvise read will fail without this patch, succeeds with it. Signed-off-by: Curt Wohlgemuth <curtw@google.com> Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
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