linux-ext4 - Re: [PATCH 1/3] direct-io: always call ->end

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Message-ID: <20160203154816.GA2698@lst.de>
Date:	Wed, 3 Feb 2016 16:48:16 +0100
From:	Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>
To:	"Darrick J. Wong" <darrick.wong@...cle.com>
Cc:	linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, xfs@....sgi.com,
	linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org, ocfs2-devel@....oracle.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] direct-io: always call ->end_io if non-NULL

> > -	if (dio->end_io && dio->result)
> > -		dio->end_io(dio->iocb, offset, transferred, dio->private);
> > +	if (dio->end_io)
> > +		dio->end_io(dio->iocb, offset, ret, dio->private);
> 
> Could we make end_io return an int so that errors during completion can be
> stuffed into ret to be picked up by whatever's calling directio?  Something
> like this:
> 
> if (dio->end_io) {
> 	int ret2;
> 
> 	ret2 = dio->end_io(dio->iocb, offset, ret, dio->private);
> 	if (ret2 && !ret)
> 		ret = ret2;
> }
> 
> That way I can capture IO errors during the CoW remapping step and pass them to
> userland either via dio_complete()'s return value or through ki_complete.
> 
> (If ret itself is an error code then obviously we don't bother with the
> post-CoW remap.)

Should be doable, I'll respin it with that change.
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