Re: [Patch] invalidate range of pages after direct IO write
From: Andrew Morton (akpm_at_osdl.org)
Date: 02/05/05
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Date: Fri, 4 Feb 2005 15:35:30 -0800 To: Zach Brown <zach.brown@oracle.com>
Zach Brown <zach.brown@oracle.com> wrote:
>
> Andrew Morton wrote:
>
> > I'd be inclined to hold off on the macro until we actually get the
> > open-coded stuff right.. Sometimes the page lookup loops take an end+1
> > argument and sometimes they take an inclusive `end'. I think. That might
> > make it a bit messy.
> >
> > How's this look?
>
> Looks good. It certainly stops the worst behaviour we were worried
> about. I wonder about 2 things:
>
> 1) Now that we're calculating a specifc length for pagevec_lookup(), is
> testing that page->index > end still needed for pages that get remapped
> somewhere weird before we locked? If it is, I imagine we should test
> for < start as well.
Nope. We're guaranteed that the pages which pagevec_lookup() returned are
a) at or beyond `start' and
b) in ascending pgoff_t order, although not necessarily contiguous.
There will be gaps for not-present pages. It's just an in-order gather.
So we need the `page->index > end' test to cope with the situation where a
request for three pages returned the three pages at indices 10, 11 and
3,000,000.
> 2) If we get a pagevec full of pages that fail the != mapping test we
> will probably just try again, not having changed next. This is fine, we
> won't find them in our mapping again.
Yes, good point. That page should go away once we drop our ref, and
it's not in the radix tree any more.
> But this won't happen if next
> started as 0 and we didn't update it. I don't know if retrying is the
> intended behaviour or if we care that the start == 0 case doesn't do it.
Good point. Let's make it explicit?
--- 25/mm/truncate.c~invalidate-range-of-pages-after-direct-io-write-fix-fix Fri Feb 4 15:33:52 2005
+++ 25-akpm/mm/truncate.c Fri Feb 4 15:34:47 2005
@@ -260,11 +260,12 @@ int invalidate_inode_pages2_range(struct
int i;
int ret = 0;
int did_range_unmap = 0;
+ int wrapped = 0;
pagevec_init(&pvec, 0);
next = start;
- while (next <= end &&
- !ret && pagevec_lookup(&pvec, mapping, next,
+ while (next <= end && !ret && !wrapped &&
+ pagevec_lookup(&pvec, mapping, next,
min(end - next, (pgoff_t)PAGEVEC_SIZE - 1) + 1)) {
for (i = 0; !ret && i < pagevec_count(&pvec); i++) {
struct page *page = pvec.pages[i];
@@ -277,6 +278,8 @@ int invalidate_inode_pages2_range(struct
}
wait_on_page_writeback(page);
next = page->index + 1;
+ if (next == 0)
+ wrapped = 1;
while (page_mapped(page)) {
if (!did_range_unmap) {
/*
@@ -307,8 +310,6 @@ int invalidate_inode_pages2_range(struct
}
pagevec_release(&pvec);
cond_resched();
- if (next == 0)
- break; /* The pgoff_t wrapped */
}
return ret;
}
_
> I'm being less excited by the iterating macro the more I think about it.
> Tearing down the pagevec in some complicated for(;;) doesn't sound
> reliable and I fear that some function that takes a per-page callback
> function pointer from the caller will turn people's stomachs.
heh, OK.
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