Re: [PATCH v6 06/22] Replace XIP read and write with DAX I/O

[Toshi Kani]

On Tue, 2014-02-25 at 09:18 -0500, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> Use the generic AIO infrastructure instead of custom read and write
> methods.  In addition to giving us support for AIO, this adds the missing
> locking between read() and truncate().
> 
 :
> +static void dax_new_buf(void *addr, unsigned size, unsigned first,
> +					loff_t offset, loff_t end, int rw)
> +{
> +	loff_t final = end - offset;	/* The final byte in this buffer */

I may be missing something, but shouldn't it take first into account?

	loff_t final = end - offset + first;

Thanks,
-Toshi


> +	if (rw != WRITE) {
> +		memset(addr, 0, size);
> +		return;
> +	}
> +
> +	if (first > 0)
> +		memset(addr, 0, first);
> +	if (final < size)
> +		memset(addr + final, 0, size - final);
> +}



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