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authorZach Brown <zach.brown@oracle.com>2007-10-30 11:45:46 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org>2007-10-30 12:14:06 -0700
commitbdb76ef5a4bc8676a81034a443f1eda450b4babb (patch)
treeb4ec8736e6d4bed26f96c94d5c7c8eec0896fcd0 /drivers/watchdog
parente58b7dab272ecee09cd7bafb89d6b224cd17bbe3 (diff)
dio: fix cache invalidation after sync writes
Commit commit 65b8291c4000e5f38fc94fb2ca0cb7e8683c8a1b ("dio: invalidate clean pages before dio write") introduced a bug which stopped dio from ever invalidating the page cache after writes. It still invalidated it before writes so most users were fine. Karl Schendel reported ( http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/10/26/481 ) hitting this bug when he had a buffered reader immediately reading file data after an O_DIRECT wirter had written the data. The kernel issued read-ahead beyond the position of the reader which overlapped with the O_DIRECT writer. The failure to invalidate after writes caused the reader to see stale data from the read-ahead. The following patch is originally from Karl. The following commentary is his: The below 3rd try takes on your suggestion of just invalidating no matter what the retval from the direct_IO call. I ran it thru the test-case several times and it has worked every time. The post-invalidate is probably still too early for async-directio, but I don't have a testcase for that; just sync. And, this won't be any worse in the async case. I added a test to the aio-dio-regress repository which mimics Karl's IO pattern. It verifed the bad behaviour and that the patch fixed it. I agree with Karl, this still doesn't help the case where a buffered reader follows an AIO O_DIRECT writer. That will require a bit more work. This gives up on the idea of returning EIO to indicate to userspace that stale data remains if the invalidation failed. Signed-off-by: Zach Brown <zach.brown@oracle.com> Cc: Karl Schendel <kschendel@datallegro.com> Cc: Benjamin LaHaise <bcrl@kvack.org> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Cc: Leonid Ananiev <leonid.i.ananiev@linux.intel.com> Cc: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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