dmonakhov at sw
Jan 14, 2007, 6:25 AM
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Re: [patch 6/10] mm: be sure to trim blocks
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Nick Piggin <npiggin [at] suse> writes:
> If prepare_write fails with AOP_TRUNCATED_PAGE, or if commit_write fails, then
> we may have failed the write operation despite prepare_write having
> instantiated blocks past i_size. Fix this, and consolidate the trimming into
> one place.
>
> Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin [at] suse>
>
> Index: linux-2.6/mm/filemap.c
> ===================================================================
> --- linux-2.6.orig/mm/filemap.c
> +++ linux-2.6/mm/filemap.c
> @@ -1911,22 +1911,9 @@ generic_file_buffered_write(struct kiocb
> }
>
> status = a_ops->prepare_write(file, page, offset, offset+bytes);
> - if (unlikely(status)) {
> - loff_t isize = i_size_read(inode);
> + if (unlikely(status))
> + goto fs_write_aop_error;
May be it's stupid question but still..
Why we treat non zero prepare_write() return code as error, it may be positive.
Positive error code may be used as fine grained 'bytes' limiter in case of
blksize < pgsize as follows:
status = a_ops->prepare_write(file, page, offset, offset+bytes);
if (unlikely(status)) {
if (status > 0) {
bytes = min(bytes, status);
status = 0;
} else {
goto fs_write_aop_error;
}
}
---
This is useful because fs may want to reduce 'bytes' by number of reasons,
for example make it blksize bound.
Example : filesystem has 1k blksize and only two free blocks. And we try
write 4k bytes.
Currently write(fd, buff, 4096) will return -ENOSPC
But after this fix write(fd, buff, 4096) will return as mutch as it can (2048).
>
> - if (status != AOP_TRUNCATED_PAGE)
> - unlock_page(page);
> - page_cache_release(page);
> - if (status == AOP_TRUNCATED_PAGE)
> - continue;
> - /*
> - * prepare_write() may have instantiated a few blocks
> - * outside i_size. Trim these off again.
> - */
> - if (pos + bytes > isize)
> - vmtruncate(inode, isize);
> - break;
> - }
> if (likely(nr_segs == 1))
> copied = filemap_copy_from_user(page, offset,
> buf, bytes);
> @@ -1935,10 +1922,9 @@ generic_file_buffered_write(struct kiocb
> cur_iov, iov_offset, bytes);
> flush_dcache_page(page);
> status = a_ops->commit_write(file, page, offset, offset+bytes);
> - if (status == AOP_TRUNCATED_PAGE) {
> - page_cache_release(page);
> - continue;
> - }
> + if (unlikely(status))
> + goto fs_write_aop_error;
> +
> if (likely(copied > 0)) {
> if (!status)
> status = copied;
> @@ -1969,6 +1955,25 @@ generic_file_buffered_write(struct kiocb
> break;
> balance_dirty_pages_ratelimited(mapping);
> cond_resched();
> + continue;
> +
> +fs_write_aop_error:
> + if (status != AOP_TRUNCATED_PAGE)
> + unlock_page(page);
> + page_cache_release(page);
> +
> + /*
> + * prepare_write() may have instantiated a few blocks
> + * outside i_size. Trim these off again. Don't need
> + * i_size_read because we hold i_mutex.
> + */
> + if (pos + bytes > inode->i_size)
> + vmtruncate(inode, inode->i_size);
> + if (status == AOP_TRUNCATED_PAGE)
> + continue;
> + else
> + break;
> +
> } while (count);
> *ppos = pos;
>
> -
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