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Currently when mixing buffered reads and asynchronous direct writes it is possible to end up with the situation where we have stale data in the page cache while the new data is already written to disk. This is permanent until the affected pages are flushed away. Despite the fact that mixing buffered and direct IO is ill-advised it does pose a thread for a data integrity, is unexpected and should be fixed. Fix this by deferring completion of asynchronous direct writes to a process context in the case that there are mapped pages to be found in the inode. Later before the completion in dio_complete() invalidate the pages in question. This ensures that after the completion the pages in the written area are either unmapped, or populated with up-to-date data. Also do the same for the iomap case which uses iomap_dio_complete() instead. This has a side effect of deferring the completion to a process context for every AIO DIO that happens on inode that has pages mapped. However since the consensus is that this is ill-advised practice the performance implication should not be a problem. This was based on proposal from Jeff Moyer, thanks! Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Reviewed-by: Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@oracle.com> Reviewed-by: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Lukas Czerner <lczerner@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk> |
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README
Linux kernel ============ This file was moved to Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst Please notice that there are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or ``make pdfdocs``. There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory, several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation. See Documentation/00-INDEX for a list of what is contained in each file. 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.