Re: [PATCH 6/6] aio-dio-append-write-fallocate-race: fix directio buffer alignment bugs

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On Wed, May 19, 2021 at 04:57:16PM -0700, Darrick J. Wong wrote:
> From: Darrick J. Wong <djwong@xxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> This program fails on filesystems where the stat() block size isn't a
> strict power of two because it foolishly feeds that to posix_memalign to
> allocate an aligned memory buffer for directio.  posix_memalign requires
> the alignment value to be a power of two, so generic/586 fails.
> 
> The system page size generally works well for directio buffers, so use
> that instead.

Looks good,

Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx>



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