2.6.10-rc1-mm2 DIO failures

From: Badari Pulavarty
Date: Fri Nov 12 2004 - 19:27:39 EST


Hi Andrew,

I see LTP DIO test failures on 2.6.10-rc1-mm2 while doing
direct-IO write to filesystem files.

This is due to the changes in generic_file_direct_IO(). I haven't
looked at what exactly happening here (whats faling with page shoot down). But we end up getting -EIO.

/*
- * Called under i_sem for writes to S_ISREG files
+ * Called under i_sem for writes to S_ISREG files. Returns -EIO if something
+ * went wrong during pagecache shootdown.
*/
ssize_t
generic_file_direct_IO(int rw, struct kiocb *iocb, const struct iovec *iov,
@@ -2539,14 +2540,24 @@ generic_file_direct_IO(int rw, struct ki
struct address_space *mapping = file->f_mapping;
ssize_t retval;

+ /*
+ * If it's a write, unmap all mmappings of the file up-front. This
+ * will cause any pte dirty bits to be propagated into the pageframes
+ * for the subsequent filemap_write_and_wait().
+ */
+ if (rw == WRITE && mapping_mapped(mapping))
+ unmap_mapping_range(mapping, 0, -1, 0);
...


Thanks,
Badari


# ./diotest2
diotest02 1 PASS : Read with Direct IO, Write without
write failed:Input/output error
[2] Write Direct failed
diotest02 2 FAIL : Write with Direct IO, Read without
diotest02 3 PASS : Read, Write with Direct IO
diotest2 1/3 testblocks failed
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