On Mon, Jul 13, 2020 at 09:46:33AM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> Failing to invalid the page cache means data in incoherent, which is
> a very bad state for the system.  Always fall back to buffered I/O
> through the page cache if we can't invalidate mappings.

Is that the right approach though?  I don't have a full picture in my head,
but wouldn't we be better off marking these pages as !Uptodate and doing
the direct I/O?

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