On 02/28/2017 03:11 AM, Jeff Layton wrote: <> > > I'll probably have questions about the read side as well, but for now it > looks like it's mostly used in an ad-hoc way to communicate errors > across subsystems (block to fs layer, for instance). If memory does not fail me it used to be checked long time ago in the read-ahead case. On the buffered read case, the first page is read synchronous and any error is returned to the caller, but then a read-ahead chunk is read async all the while the original thread returned to the application. So any errors are only recorded on the page-bit, since otherwise the uptodate is off and the IO will be retransmitted. Then the move to read_iter changed all that I think. But again this is like 5-6 years ago, and maybe I didn't even understand very well. > -- > Jeff Layton <jlayton@xxxxxxxxxx> > I would like a Documentation of all this as well please. Where are the tests for this? Thanks Boaz
