The patch titled Subject: mm/filemap.c: warn if stale pagecache is left after direct write has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is fs-warn-if-stale-pagecache-is-left-after-direct-write.patch This patch should soon appear at http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmots/broken-out/fs-warn-if-stale-pagecache-is-left-after-direct-write.patch and later at http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmotm/broken-out/fs-warn-if-stale-pagecache-is-left-after-direct-write.patch Before you just go and hit "reply", please: a) Consider who else should be cc'ed b) Prefer to cc a suitable mailing list as well c) Ideally: find the original patch on the mailing list and do a reply-to-all to that, adding suitable additional cc's *** Remember to use Documentation/process/submit-checklist.rst when testing your code *** The -mm tree is included into linux-next and is updated there every 3-4 working days ------------------------------------------------------ From: Konstantin Khlebnikov <khlebnikov@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Subject: mm/filemap.c: warn if stale pagecache is left after direct write generic_file_direct_write() tries to invalidate pagecache after O_DIRECT write. Unlike to similar code in dio_complete() this silently ignores error returned from invalidate_inode_pages2_range(). According to comment this code here because not all filesystems call dio_complete() to do proper invalidation after O_DIRECT write. Noticeable example is a blkdev_direct_IO(). This patch calls dio_warn_stale_pagecache() if invalidation fails. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/157270038294.4812.2238891109785106069.stgit@buzz Signed-off-by: Konstantin Khlebnikov <khlebnikov@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxx> Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- mm/filemap.c | 8 +++++--- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) --- a/mm/filemap.c~fs-warn-if-stale-pagecache-is-left-after-direct-write +++ a/mm/filemap.c @@ -3241,11 +3241,13 @@ generic_file_direct_write(struct kiocb * * do not end up with dio_complete() being called, so let's not break * them by removing it completely. * + * Noticeable example is a blkdev_direct_IO(). + * * Skip invalidation for async writes or if mapping has no pages. */ - if (written > 0 && mapping->nrpages) - invalidate_inode_pages2_range(mapping, - pos >> PAGE_SHIFT, end); + if (written > 0 && mapping->nrpages && + invalidate_inode_pages2_range(mapping, pos >> PAGE_SHIFT, end)) + dio_warn_stale_pagecache(file); if (written > 0) { pos += written; _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from khlebnikov@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx are fs-remove-redundant-cache-invalidation-after-async-direct-io-write.patch fs-keep-dio_warn_stale_pagecache-when-config_block=n.patch fs-warn-if-stale-pagecache-is-left-after-direct-write.patch mm-swap-piggyback-lru_add_drain_all-calls.patch mm-vmstat-add-helpers-to-get-vmstat-item-names-for-each-enum-type.patch mm-vmstat-do-not-use-size-of-vmstat_text-as-count-of-proc-vmstat-items.patch mm-memcontrol-use-vmstat-names-for-printing-statistics.patch