Re: [PATCH v7 15/19] iomap: Support partial direct I/O on user copy failures

From: Christoph Hellwig
Date: Thu Sep 09 2021 - 07:23:08 EST


On Fri, Aug 27, 2021 at 06:49:22PM +0200, Andreas Gruenbacher wrote:
> In iomap_dio_rw, when iomap_apply returns an -EFAULT error and the
> IOMAP_DIO_PARTIAL flag is set, complete the request synchronously and
> return a partial result. This allows the caller to deal with the page
> fault and retry the remainder of the request.
>
> Signed-off-by: Andreas Gruenbacher <agruenba@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> fs/iomap/direct-io.c | 6 ++++++
> include/linux/iomap.h | 7 +++++++
> 2 files changed, 13 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/fs/iomap/direct-io.c b/fs/iomap/direct-io.c
> index 8054f5d6c273..ba88fe51b77a 100644
> --- a/fs/iomap/direct-io.c
> +++ b/fs/iomap/direct-io.c
> @@ -561,6 +561,12 @@ __iomap_dio_rw(struct kiocb *iocb, struct iov_iter *iter,
> ret = iomap_apply(inode, pos, count, iomap_flags, ops, dio,
> iomap_dio_actor);
> if (ret <= 0) {
> + if (ret == -EFAULT && dio->size &&
> + (dio_flags & IOMAP_DIO_PARTIAL)) {
> + wait_for_completion = true;
> + ret = 0;

Do we need a NOWAIT check here to skip the wait_for_completion
for that case?