From: Goldwyn Rodrigues <rgoldwyn@xxxxxxxx>
Find out if the write will trigger a wait due to writeback. If yes,
return -EAGAIN.
Return -EINVAL for buffered AIO: there are multiple causes of
delay such as page locks, dirty throttling logic, page loading
from disk etc. which cannot be taken care of.
Signed-off-by: Goldwyn Rodrigues <rgoldwyn@xxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx>
---
mm/filemap.c | 17 ++++++++++++++---
1 file changed, 14 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/mm/filemap.c b/mm/filemap.c
index 097213275461..bc146efa6815 100644
--- a/mm/filemap.c
+++ b/mm/filemap.c
@@ -2675,6 +2675,9 @@ inline ssize_t generic_write_checks(struct kiocb *iocb, struct iov_iter *from)
pos = iocb->ki_pos;
+ if ((iocb->ki_flags & IOCB_NOWAIT) && !(iocb->ki_flags & IOCB_DIRECT))
+ return -EINVAL;
+
if (limit != RLIM_INFINITY) {
if (iocb->ki_pos >= limit) {
send_sig(SIGXFSZ, current, 0);
@@ -2743,9 +2746,17 @@ generic_file_direct_write(struct kiocb *iocb, struct iov_iter *from)
write_len = iov_iter_count(from);
end = (pos + write_len - 1) >> PAGE_SHIFT;
- written = filemap_write_and_wait_range(mapping, pos, pos + write_len - 1);
- if (written)
- goto out;
+ if (iocb->ki_flags & IOCB_NOWAIT) {
+ /* If there are pages to writeback, return */
+ if (filemap_range_has_page(inode->i_mapping, pos,
+ pos + iov_iter_count(from)))
+ return -EAGAIN;
+ } else {
+ written = filemap_write_and_wait_range(mapping, pos,
+ pos + write_len - 1);
+ if (written)
+ goto out;
+ }
/*
* After a write we want buffered reads to be sure to go to disk to get
--
2.12.0
