On Fri, Oct 13, 2006 at 06:44:52PM +0200, Nick Piggin wrote:
> From: Andrew Morton <[email protected]> and Nick Piggin <[email protected]>
>
> The idea is to modify the core write() code so that it won't take a pagefault
> while holding a lock on the pagecache page. There are a number of different
> deadlocks possible if we try to do such a thing:
Here is a patch to improve the comment a little. This is a pretty tricky
situation so we must be clear as to why it works.
--
Comment was not entirely clear about why we must eliminate all other
possibilities.
Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <[email protected]>
Index: linux-2.6/mm/filemap.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.orig/mm/filemap.c
+++ linux-2.6/mm/filemap.c
@@ -1946,12 +1946,19 @@ retry_noprogress:
if (!PageUptodate(page)) {
/*
* If the page is not uptodate, we cannot allow a
- * partial commit_write, because that might expose
- * uninitialised data.
+ * partial commit_write because when we unlock the
+ * page below, someone else might bring it uptodate
+ * and we lose our write. We cannot allow a full
+ * commit_write, because that exposes uninitialised
+ * data. We cannot zero the rest of the file and do
+ * a full commit_write because that exposes transient
+ * zeroes.
*
- * We will enter the single-segment path below, which
- * should get the filesystem to bring the page
- * uputodate for us next time.
+ * Abort the operation entirely with a zero length
+ * commit_write. Retry. We will enter the
+ * single-segment path below, which should get the
+ * filesystem to bring the page uputodate for us next
+ * time.
*/
if (unlikely(copied != bytes))
copied = 0;
-
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