A point. In an all-seeing, all-caring universe, it would be the read
hitting the cached page that couldn't be invalidated that would get
the error, not the write. I can't get too worked up over that, though.
In any case, as you say, if the write worked it should report as such.
Perhaps this equivalent but slightly cleaned-up patch instead?
Karl
--- linux-2.6.23.1-base/mm/filemap.c 2007-10-12 12:43:44.000000000 -0400
+++ linux-2.6.23.1/mm/filemap.c 2007-10-26 18:00:00.000000000 -0400
@@ -2194,21 +2194,17 @@ generic_file_direct_IO(int rw, struct ki
}
retval = mapping->a_ops->direct_IO(rw, iocb, iov, offset, nr_segs);
- if (retval)
- goto out;
/*
* Finally, try again to invalidate clean pages which might have been
- * faulted in by get_user_pages() if the source of the write was an
- * mmap()ed region of the file we're writing. That's a pretty crazy
- * thing to do, so we don't support it 100%. If this invalidation
- * fails and we have -EIOCBQUEUED we ignore the failure.
+ * cached by non-direct readahead, or faulted in by get_user_pages()
+ * if the source of the write was an mmap'ed region of the file
+ * we're writing. Either one is a pretty crazy thing to do,
+ * so we don't support it 100%. If this invalidation
+ * fails, tough, the write still worked...
*/
- if (rw == WRITE && mapping->nrpages) {
- int err = invalidate_inode_pages2_range(mapping,
- offset >> PAGE_CACHE_SHIFT, end);
- if (err && retval >= 0)
- retval = err;
+ if (retval >= 0 && rw == WRITE && mapping->nrpages) {
+ invalidate_inode_pages2_range(mapping, offset >> PAGE_CACHE_SHIFT, end);
}
out:
return retval;
-
