Re: Readahead

[Andrew Morton]

Alan Stern <stern@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>  Can somebody please tell me where the code is that performs optimistic
>  readahead when a process does sequential reads on a block device?

mm/readahead.c:__do_page_cache_readahead() is the main one.  Use
dump_stack() to be sure.

>  And can someone explain why those readahead calls are allowed to extend 
>  beyond the end of the device?

It has a check in there for reads past the blockdev mapping's i_size. 
Maybe i_size is wrong, or maybe the code is wrong, or maybe it's a
different caller.

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