We recently fixed the writeback of pages prior to performing direct i/o, however the initial fix was perhaps a bit heavy handed. There is no need to invalidate pages if the direct i/o is only a read, since they will be identical to what has been flushed to disk anyway.
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhit...@redhat.com> diff --git a/fs/gfs2/aops.c b/fs/gfs2/aops.c index cf858da..49436fa 100644 --- a/fs/gfs2/aops.c +++ b/fs/gfs2/aops.c @@ -1032,8 +1032,9 @@ static ssize_t gfs2_direct_IO(int rw, struct kiocb *iocb, unmap_shared_mapping_range(ip->i_inode.i_mapping, offset, len); rv = filemap_write_and_wait_range(mapping, lstart, end); if (rv) - return rv; - truncate_inode_pages_range(mapping, lstart, end); + goto out; + if (rw == WRITE) + truncate_inode_pages_range(mapping, lstart, end); } rv = __blockdev_direct_IO(rw, iocb, inode, inode->i_sb->s_bdev, iov, -- 1.8.3.1 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/