Re: [PATCH] Introduce SEEK_DATA/SEEK_HOLE support v9

[Ben Myers <bpm@xxxxxxx>]

On Thu, May 10, 2012 at 02:51:15PM -0500, Mark Tinguely wrote:
> On 05/10/12 08:29, Jeff Liu wrote:
> >Hello,
> >
> >This is the revised patch according to Mark's comments.
> >Is it possible to get it to accept if there are no other issues,
> >so that I can continue to work on the unwritten part based on that.
> >
> >Thanks,
> >-Jeff
> >
> >Signed-off-by: Jie Liu<jeff.liu@xxxxxxxxxx>
> >
> >---
> 
> >+
> >+STATIC loff_t
> >+xfs_seek_hole(
> >+    struct file             *file,
> >+    loff_t                  start,
> >+    u32                     type)
> >+{
> >+    struct inode            *inode = file->f_mapping->host;
> >+    struct xfs_inode        *ip = XFS_I(inode);
> >+    struct xfs_mount        *mp = ip->i_mount;
> >+    loff_t                  uninitialized_var(offset);
> >+    loff_t                  holeoff;
> >+    xfs_fsize_t             isize;
> >+    xfs_fileoff_t           fsbno;
> >+    uint                    lock;
> >+    int                     error;
> >+
> >+    if (XFS_FORCED_SHUTDOWN(mp))
> >+            return -XFS_ERROR(EIO);
> 
> I think xfs_bmapi_read() returns just a XFS_ERROR(EIO), not negative.
> Ben can fix up if you agree.

Looks like error is negated at the bottom of the function and is not a problem.