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* [PATCH] broken fault_in_pages_readable call in generic_file_buffered_write()Martin Schwidefsky2005-06-06
| | | | | | | | | | fault_in_pages_readable() is being passed an incorrect `end' address, which can result in writes accidentally faulting in pages which will not be affected by the write() call. Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] fix for __generic_file_aio_read() to return 0 on EOFSuparna Bhattacharya2005-05-21
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | I came across the following problem while running ltp-aiodio testcases from ltp-full-20050405 on linux-2.6.12-rc3-mm3. I tried running the tests with EXT3 as well as JFS filesystems. One or two fsx-linux testcases were hung after some time. These testcases were hanging at wait_for_all_aios(). Debugging shows that there were some iocbs which were not getting completed eventhough the last retry for those returned -EIOCBQUEUED. Also all such pending iocbs represented READ operation. Further debugging revealed that all such iocbs hit EOF in the DIO layer. To be more precise, the "pos" from which they were trying to read was greater than the "size" of the file. So the generic_file_direct_IO returned 0. This happens rarely as there is already a check in __generic_file_aio_read(), for whether "pos" < "size" before calling direct IO routine. >size = i_size_read(inode); >if (pos < size) { > retval = generic_file_direct_IO(READ, iocb, > iov, pos, nr_segs); But for READ, we are taking the inode->i_sem only in the DIO layer. So it is possible that some other process can change the size of the file before we take the i_sem. In such a case ( when "pos" > "size"), the __generic_file_aio_read() would return -EIOCBQUEUED even though there were no I/O requests submitted by the DIO layer. This would cause the AIO layer to expect aio_complete() for THE iocb, which doesnot happen. And thus the test hangs forever, waiting for an I/O completion, where there are no requests submitted at all. The following patch makes __generic_file_aio_read() return 0 (instead of returning -EIOCBQUEUED), on getting 0 from generic_file_direct_IO(), so that the AIO layer does the aio_complete(). Testing: I have tested the patch on a SMP machine(with 2 Pentium 4 (HT)) running linux-2.6.12-rc3-mm3. I ran the ltp-aiodio testcases and none of the fsx-linux tests hung. Also the aio-stress tests ran without any problem. Signed-off-by: Suzuki K P <suzuki@in.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Suparna Bhattacharya <suparna@in.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] remove outdated comments from filemap.cChristoph Hellwig2005-05-05
| | | | | Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] DocBook: fix some descriptionsMartin Waitz2005-05-01
| | | | | | | | | Some KernelDoc descriptions are updated to match the current code. No code changes. Signed-off-by: Martin Waitz <tali@admingilde.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] Exterminate PAGE_BUGMatt Mackall2005-05-01
| | | | | | | | Remove PAGE_BUG - repalce it with BUG and BUG_ON. Signed-off-by: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] sync_page() smp_mb() commentWilliam Lee Irwin III2005-05-01
| | | | | | | | | | The smp_mb() is becaus sync_page() doesn't have PG_locked while it accesses page_mapping(page). The comments in the patch (the entire patch is the addition of this comment) try to explain further how and why smp_mb() is used. Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] generic_file_buffered_write fixesakpm@osdl.org2005-05-01
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Anton Altaparmakov <aia21@cam.ac.uk> points out: - It calls fault_in_pages_readable() which is completely bogus if @nr_segs > 1. It needs to be replaced by a to be written "fault_in_pages_readable_iovec()". - It increments @buf even in the iovec case thus @buf can point to random memory really quickly (in the iovec case) and then it calls fault_in_pages_readable() on this random memory. Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] filemap_getpage can block when MAP_NONBLOCK specifiedJeff Moyer2005-04-16
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | We will return NULL from filemap_getpage when a page does not exist in the page cache and MAP_NONBLOCK is specified, here: page = find_get_page(mapping, pgoff); if (!page) { if (nonblock) return NULL; goto no_cached_page; } But we forget to do so when the page in the cache is not uptodate. The following could result in a blocking call: /* * Ok, found a page in the page cache, now we need to check * that it's up-to-date. */ if (!PageUptodate(page)) goto page_not_uptodate; Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* Linux-2.6.12-rc2v2.6.12-rc2Linus Torvalds2005-04-16
Initial git repository build. I'm not bothering with the full history, even though we have it. We can create a separate "historical" git archive of that later if we want to, and in the meantime it's about 3.2GB when imported into git - space that would just make the early git days unnecessarily complicated, when we don't have a lot of good infrastructure for it. Let it rip!