Re: 2.6.9-mm1: LVM stopped working (dio-handle-eof.patch)

From: Jens Axboe
Date: Tue Nov 02 2004 - 10:45:20 EST


On Tue, Nov 02 2004, Jens Axboe wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 27 2004, Mathieu Segaud wrote:
> > Jens Axboe <axboe@xxxxxxx> disait dernièrement que :
> >
> >
> > > This feels pretty icky, but should suffice for testing. Does it make a
> > > difference?
> > >
> > > --- /opt/kernel/linux-2.6.10-rc1-mm1/fs/direct-io.c 2004-10-27 08:29:51.866931262 +0200
> > > +++ linux-2.6.10-rc1-mm1/fs/direct-io.c 2004-10-27 08:41:20.292172299 +0200
> > > @@ -987,8 +987,8 @@
> > > isize = i_size_read(inode);
> > > if (bytes_todo > (isize - offset))
> > > bytes_todo = isize - offset;
> > > - if (!bytes_todo)
> > > - return 0;
> > > + if (bytes_todo < PAGE_SIZE)
> > > + bytes_todo = PAGE_SIZE;
> > >
> > > for (seg = 0; seg < nr_segs && bytes_todo; seg++) {
> > > user_addr = (unsigned long)iov[seg].iov_base;
> >
> > As 2.6.10-rc1-mm1 failed (as expected), I tried tour fix applied upon
> > 2.6.10-rc1-mm1. This did not make any difference.
> > The only workaround for now is backing out dio-handle-eof-fix.patch and
> > dio-handle-eof.patch
> > I am willing to test anything you could send :)
>
> Does this work, on top of 2.6.0-rc1-mm1?
>
> --- /opt/kernel/linux-2.6.10-rc1-mm1/fs/direct-io.c 2004-10-27 08:29:51.000000000 +0200
> +++ linux-2.6.10-rc1-mm1/fs/direct-io.c 2004-11-02 15:36:51.864411244 +0100
> @@ -985,10 +985,12 @@
> }
>
> isize = i_size_read(inode);
> - if (bytes_todo > (isize - offset))
> - bytes_todo = isize - offset;
> - if (!bytes_todo)
> - return 0;
> + if (bytes_todo > (isize - offset)) {
> + if ((isize - offset))
> + bytes_todo = isize - offset;
> + if (bytes_todo > PAGE_SIZE)
> + bytes_todo = PAGE_SIZE;
> + }

Ehm, that should be

if ((isize - offset))
bytes_todo = isize - offset;
else if (bytes_todo > PAGE_SIZE)
bytes_todo = PAGE_SIZE;


--- /opt/kernel/linux-2.6.10-rc1-mm1/fs/direct-io.c 2004-10-27 08:29:51.000000000 +0200
+++ linux-2.6.10-rc1-mm1/fs/direct-io.c 2004-11-02 15:55:27.918459070 +0100
@@ -985,10 +985,12 @@
}

isize = i_size_read(inode);
- if (bytes_todo > (isize - offset))
- bytes_todo = isize - offset;
- if (!bytes_todo)
- return 0;
+ if (bytes_todo > (isize - offset)) {
+ if ((isize - offset))
+ bytes_todo = isize - offset;
+ else if (bytes_todo > PAGE_SIZE)
+ bytes_todo = PAGE_SIZE;
+ }

for (seg = 0; seg < nr_segs && bytes_todo; seg++) {
user_addr = (unsigned long)iov[seg].iov_base;
@@ -1008,10 +1010,9 @@
dio->curr_page = 0;

dio->total_pages = 0;
- if (user_addr & (PAGE_SIZE-1)) {
+ if (user_addr & (PAGE_SIZE-1))
dio->total_pages++;
- bytes -= PAGE_SIZE - (user_addr & (PAGE_SIZE - 1));
- }
+
dio->total_pages += (bytes + PAGE_SIZE - 1) / PAGE_SIZE;
dio->curr_user_address = user_addr;


--
Jens Axboe

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