Re: [PATCH] do_generic_file_read(): Fail immediately if killed

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On 08/16, Bart Van Assche wrote:
>
> If a fatal signal has been received, fail immediately instead of
> trying to read more data.

This looks a bit misleading to me.

If wait_on_page_locked_killable() was interrupted then this page is most
likely is not PageUptodate() and in this case do_generic_file_read() will
fail after lock_page_killable().

But as I already said, I belive the change itself is fine,

> --- a/mm/filemap.c
> +++ b/mm/filemap.c
> @@ -1721,7 +1721,9 @@ find_page:
>  			 * wait_on_page_locked is used to avoid unnecessarily
>  			 * serialisations and why it's safe.
>  			 */
> -			wait_on_page_locked_killable(page);
> +			error = wait_on_page_locked_killable(page);
> +			if (unlikely(error))
> +				goto readpage_error;
>  			if (PageUptodate(page))
>  				goto page_ok;

Acked-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@xxxxxxxxxx>

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