Re: [PATCH] Fix bad data from non-direct-io read after direct-io write

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From: Linus Torvalds
Date: Friday, October 26, 2007 - 4:14 pm

On Fri, 26 Oct 2007, Zach Brown wrote:

I'm not touching that code except to send out possible patches for others 
to test and comment on. I have no test-cases, nor any real interest in it. 
So yeah, please send me a tested and thought-through patch.

It sounded like Karl actually had a test-case to trigger this, but maybe 
I'm confused (and it sounds a bit unlikely, since it should be hard to 
trigger.. Although maybe you can trigger it by doing a direct_IO write 
with the *source* being an mmap() of the file you're writing to, and 
depending on the write itself re-populating the destination in the page 
cache?)

Karl?

		Linus
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