[PATCH v2 2/5] direct-io: don't dirty ITER_BVEC pages on read

[Omar Sandoval]

Reads through the iov_iter infrastructure for kernel pages shouldn't be
dirtied by the direct I/O code.

This is based on Dave Kleikamp's and Ming Lei's previously posted
patches.

Cc: Ming Lei <ming.lei@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Dave Kleikamp <dave.kleikamp@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Omar Sandoval <osandov@xxxxxxxxxxx>
---
 fs/direct-io.c | 8 +++++---
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/direct-io.c b/fs/direct-io.c
index e181b6b..c71387b 100644
--- a/fs/direct-io.c
+++ b/fs/direct-io.c
@@ -120,6 +120,7 @@ struct dio {
 	spinlock_t bio_lock;		/* protects BIO fields below */
 	int page_errors;		/* errno from get_user_pages() */
 	int is_async;			/* is IO async ? */
+	int should_dirty;		/* should we mark read pages dirty? */
 	bool defer_completion;		/* defer AIO completion to workqueue? */
 	int io_error;			/* IO error in completion path */
 	unsigned long refcount;		/* direct_io_worker() and bios */
@@ -392,7 +393,7 @@ static inline void dio_bio_submit(struct dio *dio, struct dio_submit *sdio)
 	dio->refcount++;
 	spin_unlock_irqrestore(&dio->bio_lock, flags);
 
-	if (dio->is_async && dio->rw == READ)
+	if (dio->is_async && dio->rw == READ && dio->should_dirty)
 		bio_set_pages_dirty(bio);
 
 	if (sdio->submit_io)
@@ -463,13 +464,13 @@ static int dio_bio_complete(struct dio *dio, struct bio *bio)
 	if (!uptodate)
 		dio->io_error = -EIO;
 
-	if (dio->is_async && dio->rw == READ) {
+	if (dio->is_async && dio->rw == READ && dio->should_dirty) {
 		bio_check_pages_dirty(bio);	/* transfers ownership */
 	} else {
 		bio_for_each_segment_all(bvec, bio, i) {
 			struct page *page = bvec->bv_page;
 
-			if (dio->rw == READ && !PageCompound(page))
+			if (dio->rw == READ && !PageCompound(page) && dio->should_dirty)
 				set_page_dirty_lock(page);
 			page_cache_release(page);
 		}
@@ -1177,6 +1178,7 @@ do_blockdev_direct_IO(int rw, struct kiocb *iocb, struct inode *inode,
 
 	dio->inode = inode;
 	dio->rw = rw;
+	dio->should_dirty = !iov_iter_is_bvec(iter);
 
 	/*
 	 * For AIO O_(D)SYNC writes we need to defer completions to a workqueue
-- 
2.2.1

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