If the I/O completed successfully, the page will remain Uptodate,
even if it is subsequently truncated. If the I/O completed with an error,
this check would cause us to retry the I/O if the page were truncated
before we woke up. There is no need to retry the I/O; the I/O to fill
the page failed, so we can legitimately just return -EIO.
This code was originally added by commit 56f0d5fe6851 ("[PATCH]
readpage-vs-invalidate fix") in 2005 (this commit ID is from the
linux-fullhistory tree; it is also commit ba1f08f14b52 in tglx-history).
At the time, truncate_complete_page() called ClearPageUptodate(), and
so this was fixing a real bug. In 2008, commit 84209e02de48
("mm: dont clear PG_uptodate on truncate/invalidate") removed the
call to ClearPageUptodate, and this check has been unnecessary ever
since.
It doesn't do any real harm, but there's no need to keep it.
Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
mm/filemap.c | 2 --
1 file changed, 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/mm/filemap.c b/mm/filemap.c
index 8d3e0daed7c9..3d1635d3be3e 100644
--- a/mm/filemap.c
+++ b/mm/filemap.c
@@ -2238,8 +2238,6 @@ static int filemap_read_page(struct file *file, struct address_space *mapping,
return error;
if (PageUptodate(page))
return 0;
- if (!page->mapping) /* page truncated */
- return AOP_TRUNCATED_PAGE;
shrink_readahead_size_eio(&file->f_ra);
return -EIO;
}
--
2.30.0
