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    Subject[patch 1/2] mm: dont clear PG_uptodate in invalidate_complete_page2()
    From: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>

    Clearing the uptodate page flag will cause page_cache_pipe_buf_confirm()
    to return -ENODATA if that page was in the buffer. This in turn will cause
    splice() to return a short or zero count.

    This manifested itself in rare I/O errors seen on nfs exported fuse
    filesystems. This is because nfsd uses splice_direct_to_actor() to
    read files, and fuse uses invalidate_inode_pages2() to invalidate
    stale data on open.

    Fix this by not clearing PG_uptodate on page invalidation. This will
    result in the old, invalid page contents being copied. But that's OK,
    the contents were valid at splice-in time (which is when the the
    "copy" was conceptually done).

    I haven't done an audit of all code that checks the PG_uptodate flags,
    but I suspect, that this change won't have any harmful effects. Most
    code checks page->mapping to see if the page was truncated or
    invalidated, before using it, and retries the find/read on the page if
    it wasn't. The page_cache_pipe_buf_confirm() code is an exception in
    this regard.

    Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
    ---
    mm/truncate.c | 1 -
    1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)

    Index: linux-2.6/mm/truncate.c
    ===================================================================
    --- linux-2.6.orig/mm/truncate.c 2008-06-24 20:49:25.000000000 +0200
    +++ linux-2.6/mm/truncate.c 2008-06-24 23:28:32.000000000 +0200
    @@ -356,7 +356,6 @@ invalidate_complete_page2(struct address
    BUG_ON(PagePrivate(page));
    __remove_from_page_cache(page);
    write_unlock_irq(&mapping->tree_lock);
    - ClearPageUptodate(page);
    page_cache_release(page); /* pagecache ref */
    return 1;
    failed:
    --


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