On 1/25/15, Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Tue, Jan 13, 2015 at 11:44:46PM +0800, Ming Lei wrote: >> >> - 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 +464,14 @@ 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) { > > I'd rather have a ->should_dirrty flag that means we need to call > bio_check_pages_dirty, And set that either if we have a kernel > iovec/bvec or dio->is_async && dio->rw == READ. It may not work for loop because the page may not become dirty until the read dio is completed, so it just means the caller totally handles the page dirty if I/O is from kernel. > > But why would we even set this if writing from an iovec? Or just rename it as ->from_user? >> 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); > > And this unk could also use some explanation. This is same, just don't handle page dirty for kernel dio pages. Thanks, Ming Lei -- 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