Re: [PATCH 10/13] fs: factor out a direct_write_fallback helper

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On 5/19/23 18:35, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> Add a helper dealing with handling the syncing of a buffered write fallback
> for direct I/O.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx>

Looks OK. One comment below.

Reviewed-by: Damien Le Moal <dlemoal@xxxxxxxxxx>

> +	/*
> +	 * We need to ensure that the page cache pages are written to disk and
> +	 * invalidated to preserve the expected O_DIRECT semantics.
> +	 */
> +	end = pos + buffered_written - 1;
> +	err = filemap_write_and_wait_range(mapping, pos, end);
> +	if (err < 0) {
> +		/*
> +		 * We don't know how much we wrote, so just return the number of
> +		 * bytes which were direct-written
> +		 */
> +		return err;
> +	}
> +	invalidate_mapping_pages(mapping, pos >> PAGE_SHIFT, end >> PAGE_SHIFT);
> +	return direct_written + buffered_written;

Why not adding here something like:

	if (buffered_written != iov_iter_count(from))
		return -EIO;

	return direct_written + buffered_written;

to have the same semantic as plain DIO ?

-- 
Damien Le Moal
Western Digital Research




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