Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Mon, 15 Dec 2014 06:16:02 +0000 | From | Al Viro <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 3/8] swap: don't add ITER_BVEC flag to direct_IO rw |
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On Sun, Dec 14, 2014 at 09:26:57PM -0800, Omar Sandoval wrote: > The rw argument to direct_IO has some ill-defined semantics. Some > filesystems (e.g., ext4, FAT) decide whether they're doing a write with > rw == WRITE, but others (e.g., XFS) check rw & WRITE. Let's set a good > example in the swap file code and say ITER_BVEC belongs in > iov_iter->flags but not in rw. This caters to the least common > denominator and avoids a sweeping change of every direct_IO > implementation for now.
Frankly, this is bogus. If anything, let's just kill the first argument completely - ->direct_IO() can always pick it from iter->type.
As for catering to the least common denominator... To hell with the lowest common denominator. How many instances of ->direct_IO() do we have, anyway? 24 in the mainline (and we don't give a flying fuck for out-of-tree code, as a matter of policy). Moreover, several are of "do nothing" variety.
FWIW, 'rw' is a mess. We used to have this: READ: O_DIRECT read WRITE: O_DIRECT write KERNEL_WRITE: swapout
These days KERNEL_WRITE got replaced with ITER_BVEC | WRITE. The thing is, we have a bunch of places where we explicitly checked for being _equal_ to WRITE. I.e. the checks that gave a negative on swapouts. I suspect that most of them are wrong and should trigger on all writes, including swapouts, but I really didn't want to dig into that pile of fun back then. That's the main reason why 'rw' argument has survived at all...
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