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2006-03-15	Fix a direct I/O locking issue revealed by the new mutex code.	Nathan Scott	1	-9/+12
	Affects only XFS (i.e. DIO_OWN_LOCKING case) - currently it is not possible to get i_mutex locking correct when using DIO_OWN direct I/O locking in a filesystem due to indeterminism in the possible return code/lock/unlock combinations. This can cause a direct read to attempt a double i_mutex unlock inside XFS. We're now ensuring __blockdev_direct_IO always exits with the inode i_mutex (still) held for a direct reader. Tested with the three different locking modes (via direct block device access, ext3 and XFS) - both reading and writing; cannot find any regressions resulting from this change, and it clearly fixes the mutex_unlock warning originally reported here: http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=114189068126253&w=2 Signed-off-by: Nathan Scott <nathans@sgi.com> Acked-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
2006-02-03	[PATCH] fix O_DIRECT read of last block in a sparse file	Jeff Moyer	1	-1/+8
	Currently, if you open a file O_DIRECT, truncate it to a size that is not a multiple of the disk block size, and then try to read the last block in the file, the read will return 0. The problem is in do_direct_IO, here: /* Handle holes / if (!buffer_mapped(map_bh)) { char kaddr; ... if (dio->block_in_file >= i_size_read(dio->inode)>>blkbits) { /* We hit eof */ page_cache_release(page); goto out; } We shift off any remaining bytes in the final block of the I/O, resulting in a 0-sized read. I've attached a patch that fixes this. I'm not happy about how ugly the math is getting, so suggestions are more than welcome. I've tested this with a simple program that performs the steps outlined for reproducing the problem above. Without the patch, we get a 0-sized result from read. With the patch, we get the correct return value from the short read. Signed-off-by: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com> Cc: Badari Pulavarty <pbadari@us.ibm.com> Cc: Suparna Bhattacharya <suparna@in.ibm.com> Cc: Mingming Cao <cmm@us.ibm.com> Cc: Joel Becker <Joel.Becker@oracle.com> Cc: "Chen, Kenneth W" <kenneth.w.chen@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-09	[PATCH] mutex subsystem, semaphore to mutex: VFS, ->i_sem	Jes Sorensen	1	-15/+15
	This patch converts the inode semaphore to a mutex. I have tested it on XFS and compiled as much as one can consider on an ia64. Anyway your luck with it might be different. Modified-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> (finished the conversion) Signed-off-by: Jes Sorensen <jes@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2005-10-29	[PATCH] core remove PageReserved	Nick Piggin	1	-1/+3
	Remove PageReserved() calls from core code by tightening VM_RESERVED handling in mm/ to cover PageReserved functionality. PageReserved special casing is removed from get_page and put_page. All setting and clearing of PageReserved is retained, and it is now flagged in the page_alloc checks to help ensure we don't introduce any refcount based freeing of Reserved pages. MAP_PRIVATE, PROT_WRITE of VM_RESERVED regions is tentatively being deprecated. We never completely handled it correctly anyway, and is be reintroduced in future if required (Hugh has a proof of concept). Once PageReserved() calls are removed from kernel/power/swsusp.c, and all arch/ and driver code, the Set and Clear calls, and the PG_reserved bit can be trivially removed. Last real user of PageReserved is swsusp, which uses PageReserved to determine whether a struct page points to valid memory or not. This still needs to be addressed (a generic page_is_ram() should work). A last caveat: the ZERO_PAGE is now refcounted and managed with rmap (and thus mapcounted and count towards shared rss). These writes to the struct page could cause excessive cacheline bouncing on big systems. There are a number of ways this could be addressed if it is an issue. Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Refcount bug fix for filemap_xip.c Signed-off-by: Carsten Otte <cotte@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-06-24	[PATCH] pass iocb to dio_iodone_t	Christoph Hellwig	1	-1/+1
	XFS will have to look at iocb->private to fix aio+dio. No other filesystem is using the blockdev_direct_IO* end_io callback. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-04-16	[PATCH] Direct IO async short read fix	Daniel McNeil	1	-3/+17
	The direct I/O code is mapping the read request to the file system block. If the file size was not on a block boundary, the result would show the the read reading past EOF. This was only happening for the AIO case. The non-AIO case truncates the result to match file size (in direct_io_worker). This patch does the same thing for the AIO case, it truncates the result to match the file size if the read reads past EOF. When I/O completes the result can be truncated to match the file size without using i_size_read(), thus the aio result now matches the number of bytes read to the end of file. Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-04-16	Linux-2.6.12-rc2	Linus Torvalds	1	-0/+1258
	Initial git repository build. I'm not bothering with the full history, even though we have it. We can create a separate "historical" git archive of that later if we want to, and in the meantime it's about 3.2GB when imported into git - space that would just make the early git days unnecessarily complicated, when we don't have a lot of good infrastructure for it. Let it rip!