> I think we still want to run dio_cleanup() if do_direct_IO() failed? > Otherwise we can leak pages. > > And there's nothing special about EFAULT or ENOMEM here: if do_direct_IO() > returns any error then that's it: we bale out, yes? >
Yes, I think we'll out from here if get EFAULT/ENOMEM error, also maybe -EIO return, return diretly should ok. > In fact I'm suspecting that this is what the code in there used to do. > Something like: > > for (...) { > ... > ret = do_direct_IO(...); > ... > if (ret) { > dio_dleanup(dio); > break > } > } > return ret; > Yes, we need call dio_cleanup() to release page cache, I lost it. However, we need do more while return -ENOTBLK, right? so I think the patch maybe like following: --- linux-2.6.22/fs/direct-io.c.orig 2007-07-27 14:39:15.000000000 +0800 +++ linux-2.6.22/fs/direct-io.c 2007-07-27 15:08:58.000000000 +0800 @@ -1032,18 +1032,19 @@ direct_io_worker(int rw, struct kiocb *i blkbits); if (ret) { + if (ret == -ENOTBLK && (rw & WRITE)) { + /* + * The remaining part of the request will be + * be handled by buffered I/O when we return + */ + ret = 0; + break; + } dio_cleanup(dio); - break; + goto out; } } /* end iovec loop */ - if (ret == -ENOTBLK && (rw & WRITE)) { - /* - * The remaining part of the request will be - * be handled by buffered I/O when we return - */ - ret = 0; - } /* * There may be some unwritten disk at the end of a part-written * fs-block-sized block. Go zero that now. > _ > > However I'd like to ask you guys to carefully review and test that please. > Gurudas, would you please give more test of this patch? Thanks, Joe - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/