linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] do_direct_IO: Use inode->i_blkbits to compute block count to be cleaned

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Date:   Mon, 9 Jan 2017 05:52:38 -0800
From:   Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
To:     Chandan Rajendra <chandan@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc:     axboe@...nel.dk, jack@...e.cz, linux-block@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        anton@...ba.org, linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] do_direct_IO: Use inode->i_blkbits to compute block
 count to be cleaned

On Sun, Jan 08, 2017 at 08:17:10PM +0530, Chandan Rajendra wrote:
> The code currently uses sdio->blkbits to compute the number of blocks to
> be cleaned. However sdio->blkbits is derived from the logical block size
> of the underlying block device (Refer to the definition of
> do_blockdev_direct_IO()). Due to this, generic/299 test would rarely
> fail when executed on an ext4 filesystem with 64k as the block size and
> when using a virtio based disk (having 512 byte as the logical block
> size) inside a kvm guest.
> 
> This commit fixes the bug by using inode->i_blkbits to compute the
> number of blocks to be cleaned.

Looks fine,

Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>