On Fri 09-02-07 00:44:06, OGAWA Hirofumi wrote:
> Jan Kara <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Hello,
> > I've noticed that extending a file using direct IO fails for FAT with
> > EINVAL. It's basically because of the following code in fat_direct_IO():
> >
> > if (rw == WRITE) {
> > /*
> > * FIXME: blockdev_direct_IO() doesn't use
> > * ->prepare_write(),
> > * so we need to update the ->mmu_private to block
> > * boundary.
> > *
> > * But we must fill the remaining area or hole by nul for
> > * updating ->mmu_private.
> > */
> > loff_t size = offset + iov_length(iov, nr_segs);
> > if (MSDOS_I(inode)->mmu_private < size)
> > return -EINVAL;
> > }
> >
> > But isn't this check bogus? blockdev_direct_IO writes only to space that
> > is already allocated and stops as soon as it needs to extend the file
> > (further extension is then handled by buffered writes). So it should
> > already do what it needed for FAT. Thanks for an answer in advance.
>
> FAT has to fill the hole completely, but DIO doesn't seems to do.
>
> e.g.
> fd = open("file", O_WRONLY | O_CREAT | O_TRUNC);
> write(fd, buf, 512);
> lseek(fd, 10000, SEEK_SET);
> write(fd, buf, 512);
>
> We need to allocate the blocks on 512 ~ 10000, and fill it with zero.
> However, I think DIO doesn't fill it. If I'm missing something, please
> let me know, I'll kill that check.
I know. DIO doesn't do it. But the point is that if blockdev_direct_IO
finds out it should allocate new blocks, it exits without allocating them.
Then in __generic_file_aio_write_nolock() if we find out that we did not
write everything in generic_file_direct_write(), we just call
generic_file_buffered_write() to write the unwritten part.
Hence, in case you describe above, the second write() finds out that
block is not allocated and eventually everything falls back to calling
generic_file_buffered_write() which calls prepare_write() and everything is
happy.
Honza
>
> Thanks.
> --
> OGAWA Hirofumi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
--
Jan Kara <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
SuSE CR Labs
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