linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] add check do_direct

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Message-Id: <1185830683.24525.2.camel@dyn9047017100.beaverton.ibm.com>
Date:	Mon, 30 Jul 2007 14:24:43 -0700
From:	Badari Pulavarty <pbadari@...ibm.com>
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	Joe Jin <joe.jin@...cle.com>, gurudas pai <gurudas.pai@...cle.com>,
	torvalds@...ux-foundation.org, jens.axboe@...cle.com,
	lkml <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, wen.gang.wang@...cle.com,
	Zach Brown <zach.brown@...cle.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] add check do_direct_IO() return val

On Mon, 2007-07-30 at 13:53 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Sat, 28 Jul 2007 11:47:19 +0800
> Joe Jin <joe.jin@...cle.com> wrote:
> 
> > > I tested Andrew's patch and panic was gone but got few ENOTBLK.
> > > So I tried with Joe's patch , both panic and ENOTBLK are gone now.
> > > But in Joe's patch if (ret == -ENOTBLK && (rw & WRITE)), dio_cleanup(dio)
> > > was not getting called because of break. So I moved dio_cleanup just 
> > > after if (ret).
> > 
> > Guru, actually, break from the loop with ENOTBLK will call dio_cleanup
> > at leater, if call it too early, that means will put_page(), maybe cause
> > other panic.
> > 
> 
> fyi, I dropped the earlier patch and now we have nothing.  Please let's get all
> this sorted out in time for 2.6.23.  Which is still many weeks away so there is
> plenty of time to prepare something which was carefully reviewed and well-tested,
> thanks.

I am also taking a look at it right now. Unfortunately, I don't think
fix is that simple - since we need to return success, in case of a
partial write.

Thanks,
Badari

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