Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 9 Feb 2007 11:11:52 +0100 (CET) | From | Jiri Kosina <> | Subject | RE: [PATCH] aio: fix kernel bug when page is temporally busy |
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On Fri, 9 Feb 2007, Ananiev, Leonid I wrote:
> I have used EIOCBRETRY in the patch to minimize source code modification > only. It is notable that EIOCBRETRY is never set in kernel, but tested > only.
There is indeed something strange in aio in 2.6.20 (and maybe older) - for example do_generic_mapping_read() gets stuck inside lock_page() in the situation when the page is not up-to-date, instead of returning properl error to aio_run_cb().
Or does it work in some other way and I get it wrong?
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