[Devel] RE: [PATCH] incorrect error handling inside generic_file_direct_write

[Chen, Kenneth W]

Christoph Hellwig wrote on Friday, December 15, 2006 2:44 AM
> So we're doing the sync_page_range once in __generic_file_aio_write
> with i_mutex held.
> 
> 
> >  	mutex_lock(&inode->i_mutex);
> > -	ret = __generic_file_aio_write_nolock(iocb, iov, nr_segs,
> > -			&iocb->ki_pos);
> > +	ret = __generic_file_aio_write(iocb, iov, nr_segs, pos);
> >  	mutex_unlock(&inode->i_mutex);
> >  
> >  	if (ret > 0 && ((file->f_flags & O_SYNC) || IS_SYNC(inode))) {
> 
> And then another time after it's unlocked, this seems wrong.


I didn't invent that mess though.

I should've ask the question first: in 2.6.20-rc1, generic_file_aio_write
will call sync_page_range twice, once from __generic_file_aio_write_nolock
and once within the function itself.  Is it redundant?  Can we delete the
one in the top level function?  Like the following?


--- ./mm/filemap.c.orig	2006-12-15 09:02:58.000000000 -0800
+++ ./mm/filemap.c	2006-12-15 09:03:19.000000000 -0800
@@ -2370,14 +2370,6 @@ ssize_t generic_file_aio_write(struct ki
 	ret = __generic_file_aio_write_nolock(iocb, iov, nr_segs,
 			&iocb->ki_pos);
 	mutex_unlock(&inode->i_mutex);
-
-	if (ret > 0 && ((file->f_flags & O_SYNC) || IS_SYNC(inode))) {
-		ssize_t err;
-
-		err = sync_page_range(inode, mapping, pos, ret);
-		if (err < 0)
-			ret = err;
-	}
 	return ret;
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(generic_file_aio_write);