ext4: introduce direct I/O write using iomap infrastructure

This patch introduces a new direct I/O write path which makes use of
the iomap infrastructure.

All direct I/O writes are now passed from the ->write_iter() callback
through to the new direct I/O handler ext4_dio_write_iter(). This
function is responsible for calling into the iomap infrastructure via
iomap_dio_rw().

Code snippets from the existing direct I/O write code within
ext4_file_write_iter() such as, checking whether the I/O request is
unaligned asynchronous I/O, or whether the write will result in an
overwrite have effectively been moved out and into the new direct I/O
->write_iter() handler.
The block mapping flags that are eventually passed down to
ext4_map_blocks() from the *_get_block_*() suite of routines have been
taken out and introduced within ext4_iomap_alloc().

For inode extension cases, ext4_handle_inode_extension() is
effectively the function responsible for performing such metadata
updates. This is called after iomap_dio_rw() has returned so that we
can safely determine whether we need to potentially truncate any
allocated blocks that may have been prepared for this direct I/O
write. We don't perform the inode extension, or truncate operations
from the ->end_io() handler as we don't have the original I/O 'length'
available there. The ->end_io() however is responsible fo converting
allocated unwritten extents to written extents.

In the instance of a short write, we fallback and complete the
remainder of the I/O using buffered I/O via
ext4_buffered_write_iter().

The existing buffer_head direct I/O implementation has been removed as
it's now redundant.

[ Fix up ext4_dio_write_iter() per Jan's comments at
  https://lore.kernel.org/r/20191105135932.GN22379@quack2.suse.cz -- TYT ]

Signed-off-by: Matthew Bobrowski <mbobrowski@mbobrowski.org>
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Reviewed-by: Ritesh Harjani <riteshh@linux.ibm.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/e55db6f12ae6ff017f36774135e79f3e7b0333da.1572949325.git.mbobrowski@mbobrowski.org
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 9 deletions

diff --git a/fs/ext4/extents.c b/fs/ext4/extents.c
index cf6c5f64cb58..56a4cee00fb7 100644
--- a/fs/ext4/extents.c
+++ b/fs/ext4/extents.c
@@ -1753,16 +1753,9 @@ ext4_can_extents_be_merged(struct inode *inode, struct ext4_extent *ex1,
 	 */
 	if (ext1_ee_len + ext2_ee_len > EXT_INIT_MAX_LEN)
 		return 0;
-	/*
-	 * The check for IO to unwritten extent is somewhat racy as we
-	 * increment i_unwritten / set EXT4_STATE_DIO_UNWRITTEN only after
-	 * dropping i_data_sem. But reserved blocks should save us in that
-	 * case.
-	 */
+
 	if (ext4_ext_is_unwritten(ex1) &&
-	    (ext4_test_inode_state(inode, EXT4_STATE_DIO_UNWRITTEN) ||
-	     atomic_read(&EXT4_I(inode)->i_unwritten) ||
-	     (ext1_ee_len + ext2_ee_len > EXT_UNWRITTEN_MAX_LEN)))
+	    ext1_ee_len + ext2_ee_len > EXT_UNWRITTEN_MAX_LEN)
 		return 0;
 #ifdef AGGRESSIVE_TEST
 	if (ext1_ee_len >= 4)