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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
To: "Darrick J. Wong" <darrick.wong@oracle.com>
Cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, xfs@oss.sgi.com,
	linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org, ocfs2-devel@oss.oracle.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] direct-io: always call ->end_io if non-NULL
Date: Wed, 3 Feb 2016 16:48:16 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160203154816.GA2698@lst.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160203000510.GB5854@birch.djwong.org>

> > -	if (dio->end_io && dio->result)
> > -		dio->end_io(dio->iocb, offset, transferred, dio->private);
> > +	if (dio->end_io)
> > +		dio->end_io(dio->iocb, offset, ret, dio->private);
> 
> Could we make end_io return an int so that errors during completion can be
> stuffed into ret to be picked up by whatever's calling directio?  Something
> like this:
> 
> if (dio->end_io) {
> 	int ret2;
> 
> 	ret2 = dio->end_io(dio->iocb, offset, ret, dio->private);
> 	if (ret2 && !ret)
> 		ret = ret2;
> }
> 
> That way I can capture IO errors during the CoW remapping step and pass them to
> userland either via dio_complete()'s return value or through ki_complete.
> 
> (If ret itself is an error code then obviously we don't bother with the
> post-CoW remap.)

Should be doable, I'll respin it with that change.

  reply	other threads:[~2016-02-03 15:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-02-02 20:17 VFS/XFS: directio updates to ease COW handling Christoph Hellwig
2016-02-02 20:17 ` [PATCH 1/3] direct-io: always call ->end_io if non-NULL Christoph Hellwig
2016-02-03  0:05   ` Darrick J. Wong
2016-02-03 15:48     ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2016-02-02 20:17 ` [PATCH 2/3] xfs: don't use ioends for direct write completions Christoph Hellwig
2016-02-03 13:52   ` Brian Foster
2016-02-02 20:17 ` [PATCH 3/3] xfs: fold xfs_vm_do_dio into xfs_vm_direct_IO Christoph Hellwig
2016-02-03 13:52   ` Brian Foster
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2016-02-03 18:40 vfs/xfs: directio updates to ease COW handling V2 Christoph Hellwig
2016-02-03 18:40 ` [PATCH 1/3] direct-io: always call ->end_io if non-NULL Christoph Hellwig
2016-02-03 19:55   ` Darrick J. Wong
2016-02-04  7:14     ` Christoph Hellwig
2016-02-04  8:17       ` Darrick J. Wong

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