[PATCH] erofs: sunset unneeded NOFAILs
Chao Yu
chao at kernel.org
Thu Sep 12 21:59:30 AEST 2024
On 2024/9/5 16:47, Gao Xiang wrote:
> With iterative development, our codebase can now deal with compressed
> buffer misses properly if both in-place I/O and compressed buffer
> allocation fail.
>
> Note that if readahead fails (with non-uptodate folios), the original
> request will then fall back to synchronous read, and `.read_folio()`
> should return appropriate errnos; otherwise -EIO will be passed to
> user space, which is unexpected.
>
> To simplify rarely encountered failure paths, a mimic decompression
> will be just used. Before that, failure reasons are recorded in
> compressed_bvecs[] and they also act as placeholders to avoid in-place
> pages. They will be parsed just before decompression and then pass
> back to `.read_folio()`.
>
> Signed-off-by: Gao Xiang <hsiangkao at linux.alibaba.com>
Reviewed-by: Chao Yu <chao at kernel.org>
Thanks,
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