The patch titled fix blk_direct_IO bio preparation has been removed from the -mm tree. Its filename was fix-blk_direct_io-bio-preparation.patch This patch was dropped because it was merged into mainline or a subsystem tree ------------------------------------------------------ Subject: fix blk_direct_IO bio preparation From: "Chen, Kenneth W" <kenneth.w.chen@xxxxxxxxx> For large size DIO that needs multiple bio, one full page worth of data was lost at the boundary of bio's maximum sector or segment limits. After a bio is full and got submitted. The outer while (nbytes) { ... } loop will allocate a new bio and just march on to index into next page. It just forgets about the page that bio_add_page() rejected when previous bio is full. Fix it by put the rejected page back to pvec so we pick it up again for the next bio. Signed-off-by: Ken Chen <kenneth.w.chen@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxx> --- fs/block_dev.c | 8 ++++++++ 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+) diff -puN fs/block_dev.c~fix-blk_direct_io-bio-preparation fs/block_dev.c --- a/fs/block_dev.c~fix-blk_direct_io-bio-preparation +++ a/fs/block_dev.c @@ -190,6 +190,12 @@ static struct page *blk_get_page(unsigne return pvec->page[pvec->idx++]; } +/* return a page back to pvec array */ +static void blk_unget_page(struct page *page, struct pvec *pvec) +{ + pvec->page[--pvec->idx] = page; +} + static ssize_t blkdev_direct_IO(int rw, struct kiocb *iocb, const struct iovec *iov, loff_t pos, unsigned long nr_segs) @@ -278,6 +284,8 @@ same_bio: count = min(count, nbytes); goto same_bio; } + } else { + blk_unget_page(page, &pvec); } /* bio is ready, submit it */ _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from kenneth.w.chen@xxxxxxxxx are ia64-alignment-bug-in-ldscript.patch aio-fix-buggy-put_ioctx-call-in-aio_complete-v2.patch mm-only-sched-add-a-few-scheduler-event-counters.patch - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe mm-commits" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html