[PATCH 2/3] xfs: move aio completion after unwritten extent conversion

[Dave Chinner]

On Sun, Jul 18, 2010 at 05:17:10PM -0400, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> If we write into an unwritten extent using AIO we need to complete the AIO
> request after the extent conversion has finished.  Without that a read could
> race to see see the extent still unwritten and return zeros.   For synchronous
> I/O we already take care of that by flushing the xfsconvertd workqueue (which
> might be a bit of overkill).
> 
> To do that add iocb and result fields to struct xfs_ioend, so that we can
> call aio_complete from xfs_end_io after the extent conversion has happened.
> Note that we need a new result field as io_error is used for positive errno
> values, while the AIO code can return negative error values and positive
> transfer sizes.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch at lst.de>

Reviewed-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner at redhat.com>

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