Re: [PATCH v2] iomap: return partial I/O count on error in iomap_dio_bio_actor

[Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>]

On Fri, Feb 21, 2020 at 10:21:04AM +0530, Ritesh Harjani wrote:
> >   		if (dio->error) {
> >   			iov_iter_revert(dio->submit.iter, copied);
> > -			copied = ret = 0;
> > +			ret = 0;
> >   			goto out;
> >   		}
> 
> But if I am seeing this correctly, even after there was a dio->error
> if you return copied > 0, then the loop in iomap_dio_rw will continue
> for next iteration as well. Until the second time it won't copy
> anything since dio->error is set and from there I guess it may return
> 0 which will break the loop.

In addition to that copied is also iov_iter_reexpand call.  We don't
really need the re-expand in case of errors, and in fact we also
have the iov_iter_revert call before jumping out, so this will
need a little bit more of an audit and properly documented in the
commit log.

> 
> Is this the correct flow? Shouldn't the while loop doing
> iomap_apply in iomap_dio_rw should also break in case of
> dio->error? Or did I miss anything?

We'd need something there iff we care about a good number of written
in case of the error.  Goldwyn, can you explain what you need this
number for in btrfs?  Maybe with a pointer to the current code base?