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* [RFC PATCH 0 of 8] O_DIRECT locking rework
@ 2007-02-07  0:32 Chris Mason
  2007-02-07  0:32 ` [PATCH 1 of 8] Introduce a place holder page for the pagecache Chris Mason
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From: Chris Mason @ 2007-02-07  0:32 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: linux-fsdevel; +Cc: akpm

Hello everyone,

Here's a respin of the O_DIRECT locking changes.  There are some minor
updates, mostly cleanups based on suggestions from Zach Brown and Dave
Chinner.

Linus found a deadlock between the placeholders and the page fault handler
when userland uses an mmap of the file as the O_DIRECT buffer.  I'm
getting around that by capping placeholder extents at DIO_PAGES (64)
intervals when the file has mappings.  This matches the interval used by
get_user_pages and makes sure get_user_pages has been called on a given
range in the address space before placeholders are added.

I also hit a stale data exposure when get_block returns data past the
end of the placeholder extent.  A concurrent readpage could come in and
find metadata before the data had gotten to disk.  The fix is to
only ask get_block for data up to the end of the placeholder.

Generally, this isn't a problem because the common case is for
a single placeholder to cover the entire DIO.  So the suboptimal
allocation result wouldn't happen very often.

-chris


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2007-02-07  0:32 [RFC PATCH 0 of 8] O_DIRECT locking rework Chris Mason
2007-02-07  0:32 ` [PATCH 1 of 8] Introduce a place holder page for the pagecache Chris Mason
2007-02-07 17:36   ` Zach Brown
2007-02-07  0:32 ` [PATCH 2 of 8] Change O_DIRECT to use placeholders instead of i_mutex/i_alloc_sem locking Chris Mason
2007-02-07 20:11   ` Zach Brown
2007-02-07 20:22     ` Chris Mason
2007-02-07 20:34       ` Zach Brown
2007-02-07  0:32 ` [PATCH 3 of 8] DIO: don't fall back to buffered writes Chris Mason
2007-02-07  0:32 ` [PATCH 4 of 8] Add flags to control direct IO helpers Chris Mason
2007-02-07 17:08   ` Suparna Bhattacharya
2007-02-07 18:05     ` Chris Mason
2007-02-08  4:03       ` Suparna Bhattacharya
2007-02-08 12:58         ` Chris Mason
2007-02-07  0:32 ` [PATCH 5 of 8] Make ext3 safe for the new DIO locking rules Chris Mason
2007-02-07  0:32 ` [PATCH 6 of 8] Make reiserfs safe for " Chris Mason
2007-02-07  0:32 ` [PATCH 7 of 8] Adapt XFS to the new blockdev_direct_IO calls Chris Mason
2007-02-07  0:32 ` [PATCH 8 of 8] Avoid too many boundary buffers in DIO Chris Mason

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