Re: [PATCH] dio: invalidate clean pages before dio write

[Benjamin LaHaise <bcrl@kvack.org>]

On Fri, Mar 09, 2007 at 02:35:57PM -0800, Zach Brown wrote:
> +	if (rw == WRITE && mapping->nrpages) {
> +		int err = invalidate_inode_pages2_range(mapping,
> +					      offset >> PAGE_CACHE_SHIFT, end);
> +		if (err && retval >= 0)
> +			retval = err;
> +	}

I don't think reporting the error is the correct thing to do in the presense 
of the write having completed.  It's a race that the caller can do nothing 
about and is arguably a kernel bug, so I'd rather do something like:

		if (err) {
			if (!retval)
				retval = err;
			else
				printk_ratelimited(KERN_DEBUG
					"dio sucks and hit the race %ld %ld\n",
					retval, err);
		}

Aside from that, I much prefer this approach to fix the problem than going 
around and changing semantics.  Feel free to add my Signed-off-by.

		-ben
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