Re: [RFC/PATCH 2/4] fs/mm: execute in place (3rd version)

[Badari Pulavarty]

On Thu, 2005-05-26 at 06:19, Carsten Otte wrote:
> Suparna Bhattacharya wrote:
> 
> > To get a complete picture, how did you want to handle direct io ?
> >
> >Regards
> >Suparna
> >  
> >
> Just through the regular xip path, O_DIRECT doesn't have any effect
> on those files since we do a direct memcpy to disk in the end anyway.
> That has the user-visible effect that unalligned reads/writes work with
> O_DIRECT.

Well, my changes won't handle O_DIRECT the way you are expecting to.
Generic routines handle direct-io first, so you need to fix that.
(or clear the O_DIRECT flag for xip files).

Thanks,
Badari

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