Commit 5500316 (May 2012) implemented raw_co_is_allocated() as
follows:
1. If defined(CONFIG_FIEMAP), use the FS_IOC_FIEMAP ioctl
2. Else if defined(SEEK_HOLE) && defined(SEEK_DATA), use lseek()
3. Else pretend there are no holes
Later on, raw_co_is_allocated() was generalized to
raw_co_get_block_status().
Commit 4f11aa8 (May 2014) changed it to try the three methods in order
until success, because "there may be implementations which support
[SEEK_HOLE/SEEK_DATA] but not [FIEMAP] (e.g., NFSv4.2) as well as vice
versa."
Unfortunately, we used FIEMAP incorrectly: we lacked FIEMAP_FLAG_SYNC.
Commit 38c4d0a (Sep 2014) added it. Because that's a significant
speed hit, the next commit 7c159037 put SEEK_HOLE/SEEK_DATA first.
As you see, the obvious use of FIEMAP is wrong, and the correct use is
slow. I guess this puts it somewhere between -7 "The obvious use is
wrong" and -10 "It's impossible to get right" on Rusty Russel's Hard
to Misuse scale[*].
"Fortunately", the FIEMAP code is used only when
* SEEK_HOLE/SEEK_DATA aren't defined, but CONFIG_FIEMAP is
Uncommon. SEEK_HOLE had no XFS implementation between 2011 (when it
was introduced for ext4 and btrfs) and 2012.
* SEEK_HOLE/SEEK_DATA and CONFIG_FIEMAP are defined, but lseek() fails
Unlikely.
Thus, the FIEMAP code executes rarely. Makes it a nice hidey-hole for
bugs. Worse, bugs hiding there can theoretically bite even on a host
that has SEEK_HOLE/SEEK_DATA.
I don't want to worry about this crap, not even theoretically. Get
rid of it.
[*] http://ozlabs.org/~rusty/index.cgi/tech/2008-04-01.html
Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Max Reitz <mreitz@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Max Reitz <mreitz@redhat.com>
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