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In read_extent_buffer_pages(), if we failed to lock the page atomically, we just exit with return value 0. This is counter-intuitive, as normally if we can't lock what we need, we would return something like EAGAIN. But that return hides under (wait == WAIT_NONE) branch, which only gets triggered for readahead. And for readahead, if we failed to lock the page, it means the extent buffer is either being read by other thread, or has been read and is under modification. Either way the eb will or has been cached, thus readahead has no need to wait for it. Add comment on this counter-intuitive behavior. Reported-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com> Reviewed-by: Filipe Manana <fdmanana@suse.com> Signed-off-by: Qu Wenruo <wqu@suse.com> Signed-off-by: David Sterba <dsterba@suse.com> |
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README
Linux kernel
============
There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.