Re: 2.6.9-mm1: LVM stopped working (dio-handle-eof.patch)

[Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>]

On Wed, Oct 27 2004, Jens Axboe wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 26 2004, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > Mathieu Segaud <matt@minas-morgul.org> wrote:
> > >
> > > Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> disait dernièrement que :
> > > 
> > >  > If you have time, please restore dio-handle-eof.patch and then apply the
> > >  > below fixup, then retest.  Thanks.
> > > 
> > >  I had time to test this fix; it did not solve the problem. Whereas reverting
> > >  the complete dio-handle-eof.patch solved it.
> > 
> > bummer.  Can you send a super-simple means by which I can demonstrate the
> > problem?
> 
> Hmm, maybe round the value up to a PAGE_SIZE in length?

This feels pretty icky, but should suffice for testing. Does it make a
difference?

--- /opt/kernel/linux-2.6.10-rc1-mm1/fs/direct-io.c	2004-10-27 08:29:51.866931262 +0200
+++ linux-2.6.10-rc1-mm1/fs/direct-io.c	2004-10-27 08:41:20.292172299 +0200
@@ -987,8 +987,8 @@
 	isize = i_size_read(inode);
 	if (bytes_todo > (isize - offset))
 		bytes_todo = isize - offset;
-	if (!bytes_todo)
-		return 0;
+	if (bytes_todo < PAGE_SIZE)
+		bytes_todo = PAGE_SIZE;
 
 	for (seg = 0; seg < nr_segs && bytes_todo; seg++) {
 		user_addr = (unsigned long)iov[seg].iov_base;

-- 
Jens Axboe