[rfc patch 2/2] direct-io: remove address alignment check

[Daniel McNeil]

This patch relaxes the direct i/o alignment check so that user addresses
do not have to be a multiple of the device block size.

I've done some preliminary testing and it mostly works on an ext3
file system on a ide disk.  I have seen trouble when the user address
is on an odd byte boundary.  Sometimes the data is read back incorrectly
on read and sometimes I get these kernel error messages:
	hda: dma_timer_expiry: dma status == 0x60
	hda: DMA timeout retry
	hda: timeout waiting for DMA
	hda: status error: status=0x58 { DriveReady SeekComplete DataRequest }
	ide: failed opcode was: unknown
	hda: drive not ready for command

Doing direct-io with user addresses on even, non-512 boundaries appears
to be working correctly.

Any additional testing and/or comments welcome.

Signed-off-by: Daniel McNeil <daniel@xxxxxxxx>

--- linux-2.6.12.orig/fs/direct-io.c	2005-06-28 16:39:39.000000000 -0700
+++ linux-2.6.12/fs/direct-io.c	2005-06-28 16:39:59.000000000 -0700
@@ -1147,7 +1147,9 @@ __blockdev_direct_IO(int rw, struct kioc
 			goto out;
 	}
 
-	/* Check the memory alignment.  Blocks cannot straddle pages */
+	/*
+	 * Check the i/o.  It must be a multiple of device block size.
+	 */
 	for (seg = 0; seg < nr_segs; seg++) {
 		addr = (unsigned long)iov[seg].iov_base;
 		size = iov[seg].iov_len;
@@ -1156,7 +1158,7 @@ __blockdev_direct_IO(int rw, struct kioc
 			if (bdev)
 				 blkbits = bdev_blkbits;
 			blocksize_mask = (1 << blkbits) - 1;
-			if ((addr & blocksize_mask) || (size & blocksize_mask))
+			if (size & blocksize_mask)
 				goto out;
 		}
 	}


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