Re: [PATCH -next] mm/filemap: fix that first page is not mark accessed in filemap_read()

From: Matthew Wilcox
Date: Thu Jun 02 2022 - 14:30:57 EST


On Thu, Jun 02, 2022 at 04:21:29PM +0800, Yu Kuai wrote:
> In filemap_read(), 'ra->prev_pos' is set to 'iocb->ki_pos + copied',
> while it should be 'iocb->ki_ops'.

Can you walk me through your reasoning which leads you to believe that
it should be ki_pos instead of ki_pos + copied? As I understand it,
prev_pos is the end of the previous read, not the beginning of the
previous read.

For consequence,
> folio_mark_accessed() will not be called for 'fbatch.folios[0]' since
> 'iocb->ki_pos' is always equal to 'ra->prev_pos'.

I don't follow this, but maybe I'm just being slow.