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SubjectRe: splice(SPLICE_F_MOVE) problems
On 05/01, Jens Axboe wrote:
>
> On Mon, May 01 2006, Oleg Nesterov wrote:
> >
> > I can't understand why do we need PIPE_BUF_FLAG_STOLEN at all.
> > It seems to me we need a local boolean in pipe_to_file.
>
> PIPE_BUF_FLAG_STOLEN used to be used in the release function as well,
> hence the flag.

Ok, but in that case

> I'll make sure to clear
> the flag as well on add_to_page_cache() failure.

... it is not good to clear it in pipe_to_file(). The page remains
stolen from pipe_buf_operations pov, this flag imho should be private
to buf, and page_cache_pipe_buf_ops doesn't need it.

I think pipe_to_buf() can test 'buf->page == page' instead of
PIPE_BUF_FLAG_STOLEN.

Another question,

__generic_file_splice_read:

/*
* Initiate read-ahead on this page range. however, don't call into
* read-ahead if this is a non-zero offset (we are likely doing small
* chunk splice and the page is already there) for a single page.
*/
if (!loff || nr_pages > 1)
page_cache_readahead(mapping, &in->f_ra, in, index, nr_pages);

Why this check? page_cache_readahead() should detect sub-page
reads correctly.

page = find_get_page(mapping, index);
if (!page) {
page = page_cache_alloc_cold();

add_to_page_cache_lru(page);

I think it makes sense to add handle_ra_miss() here. Otherwise,
for example, readahead could be disabled by RA_FLAG_INCACHE
forever.

If readahead doesn't work, SPLICE_F_MOVE is problematic too.
add_to_page_cache_lru()->lru_cache_add() first increments
page->count and adds this page to lru_add_pvecs. This means
page_cache_pipe_buf_steal()->remove_mapping() will probably
fail.

Oleg.

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