afs: Do not skip flushing pages for dv-0 files
If the dv for a file is 0, we know the file is empty. Currently we
skip flushing pages for such files, presumably the idea being there is
no data in the file, so there should be no pages to flush.
However, Linux seems to keep empty pages around for empty files. So, a
future read can result in the application reading a page full of
zeroes, unless we flush the page here. While this has only been found
to happen on Linux 2.6.22 and later (and distribution-specific
backports, like RHEL 2.6.18-128), other platforms could in theory also
choose to do this. It would be difficult to find out when another
platform started to behave like this, so just remove this skip for
everyone so we never have to deal with this again.
Replace this code with a comment with a quick explanation, in case
anyone tries to add a similar optimization here in the future.
Thanks to Richard Brittain.
Reviewed-on: http://gerrit.openafs.org/8465
Reviewed-by: Jeffrey Altman <jaltman@your-file-system.com>
Tested-by: BuildBot <buildbot@rampaginggeek.com>
Reviewed-by: Derrick Brashear <shadow@your-file-system.com>
(cherry picked from commit
ad4e634051e18fa5bd07016b6405e53e236c2f45)
Change-Id: I76aed81e0d8acdbf13bc952ac8557b051d2869bf
Reviewed-on: http://gerrit.openafs.org/8484
Tested-by: BuildBot <buildbot@rampaginggeek.com>
Reviewed-by: Andrew Deason <adeason@sinenomine.net>
Reviewed-by: Derrick Brashear <shadow@your-file-system.com>
Reviewed-by: Jeffrey Altman <jaltman@your-file-system.com>