Reads through the iov_iter infrastructure for kernel pages shouldn't be dirtied by the direct I/O code. This is based on Dave Kleikamp's and Ming Lei's previously posted patches. Cc: Ming Lei <ming.lei@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Dave Kleikamp <dave.kleikamp@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Omar Sandoval <osandov@xxxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/direct-io.c | 8 +++++--- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/fs/direct-io.c b/fs/direct-io.c index e181b6b..e542ce4 100644 --- a/fs/direct-io.c +++ b/fs/direct-io.c @@ -120,6 +120,7 @@ struct dio { spinlock_t bio_lock; /* protects BIO fields below */ int page_errors; /* errno from get_user_pages() */ int is_async; /* is IO async ? */ + int should_dirty; /* should we mark read pages dirty? */ bool defer_completion; /* defer AIO completion to workqueue? */ int io_error; /* IO error in completion path */ unsigned long refcount; /* direct_io_worker() and bios */ @@ -392,7 +393,7 @@ static inline void dio_bio_submit(struct dio *dio, struct dio_submit *sdio) dio->refcount++; spin_unlock_irqrestore(&dio->bio_lock, flags); - if (dio->is_async && dio->rw == READ) + if (dio->is_async && dio->rw == READ && dio->should_dirty) bio_set_pages_dirty(bio); if (sdio->submit_io) @@ -463,13 +464,13 @@ static int dio_bio_complete(struct dio *dio, struct bio *bio) if (!uptodate) dio->io_error = -EIO; - if (dio->is_async && dio->rw == READ) { + if (dio->is_async && dio->rw == READ && dio->should_dirty) { bio_check_pages_dirty(bio); /* transfers ownership */ } else { bio_for_each_segment_all(bvec, bio, i) { struct page *page = bvec->bv_page; - if (dio->rw == READ && !PageCompound(page)) + if (dio->rw == READ && !PageCompound(page) && dio->should_dirty) set_page_dirty_lock(page); page_cache_release(page); } @@ -1177,6 +1178,7 @@ do_blockdev_direct_IO(int rw, struct kiocb *iocb, struct inode *inode, dio->inode = inode; dio->rw = rw; + dio->should_dirty = !(iter->type & ITER_BVEC); /* * For AIO O_(D)SYNC writes we need to defer completions to a workqueue -- 2.1.3 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html