On Tue, 27 Feb 2001, Robert Read wrote:
> Currently in brw_kiovec, iobuf->io_count is being incremented as each
> bh is submitted, and decremented in the bh->b_end_io(). This means
> io_count can go to zero before all the bhs have been submitted,
> especially during a large request. This causes the end_kio_request()
> to be called before all of the io is complete.
>
> This suggested patch against 2.4.2 sets io_count to the total amount
> before the bhs are submitted, although there is probably a better way
> to determine the io_count than this.
>
> robert
>
> diff -ru linux/fs/buffer.c linux-rm/fs/buffer.c
> --- linux/fs/buffer.c Mon Jan 15 12:42:32 2001
> +++ linux-rm/fs/buffer.c Tue Jan 30 11:41:57 2001
> @@ -2085,6 +2085,7 @@
> offset = iobuf->offset;
> length = iobuf->length;
> iobuf->errno = 0;
> + atomic_set(&iobuf->io_count, length/size);
>
> for (pageind = 0; pageind < iobuf->nr_pages; pageind++) {
> map = iobuf->maplist[pageind];
> @@ -2119,8 +2120,6 @@
> bh[bhind++] = tmp;
> length -= size;
> offset += size;
> -
> - atomic_inc(&iobuf->io_count);
>
> submit_bh(rw, tmp);
> /*
> -
It seems your patch breaks bh allocation failure handling. If
get_unused_buffer_head() fails, iobuf->io_count never reaches 0, so
processes waiting on kiobuf_wait_for_io() will block forever.
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