RE: [PATCH] aio: fix kernel bug when page is temporally busy

[Jiri Kosina]

On Fri, 9 Feb 2007, Ananiev, Leonid I wrote:

> I have used EIOCBRETRY in the patch to minimize source code modification 
> only. It is notable that EIOCBRETRY is never set in kernel, but tested 
> only.

There is indeed something strange in aio in 2.6.20 (and maybe older) - for 
example do_generic_mapping_read() gets stuck inside lock_page() in the 
situation when the page is not up-to-date, instead of returning properl 
error to aio_run_cb().

Or does it work in some other way and I get it wrong?

-- 
Jiri Kosina
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