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From: Zach Brown <zach.brown@oracle.com>
To: "Ananiev, Leonid I" <leonid.i.ananiev@intel.com>
Cc: "Ken Chen" <kenchen@google.com>, <suparna@in.ibm.com>,
	"Andrew Morton" <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	<linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, "linux-aio" <linux-aio@kvack.org>,
	"Chris Mason" <chris.mason@oracle.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] aio: fix kernel bug when page is temporally busy
Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2007 11:22:58 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <7B7DC266-39EB-40AB-B797-A92329120FEE@oracle.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <B41635854730A14CA71C92B36EC22AAC83A9F1@mssmsx411>


On Feb 15, 2007, at 11:11 AM, Ananiev, Leonid I wrote:

>> It returns -EIOCBRETRY without guaranteeing that kick_iocb() will be
>> called.  This can lead to operations hanging
>
> If EIOCBRETRY then generic_file_aio_write() will be recalled for the
> same iocb.

Only if kick_iocb() is called.  It won't be called if i_i_p2_r() was  
the only thing to return -EIOCBRETRY.

>
>> It overwrites -EIOCBQUEUED, leading to an aio_complete() while a
>> retry is happening.
>
> EIOCBQUEUED or EIOCBRETRY does not lead to aio_complete() call:

Not by fs/aio.c, but *by the place that originated -EIOCBQUEUED*.   
Later.  After IO has completed.  see fs/direct-io.c:dio_bio_end_aio().

This is what -EIOCBQUEUED means!  It's a promise to call aio_complete 
() in the future.

Have you read the giant comment over the definition of struct kiocb  
in include/linux/aio.h?

>> This can lead to reference count confusion.
> But just reference count confusion was deleted by patch. Isn't it?

Sorry, I don't understand what you're trying to ask here.

- z

  reply	other threads:[~2007-02-15 19:23 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-02-09  4:29 [PATCH] aio: fix kernel bug when page is temporally busy Ananiev, Leonid I
2007-02-09  4:35 ` Andrew Morton
2007-02-09  5:41   ` Ananiev, Leonid I
2007-02-09  5:52     ` Andrew Morton
2007-02-12 22:52       ` Ananiev, Leonid I
2007-02-12 23:21       ` Ananiev, Leonid I
2007-02-09  7:16     ` Suparna Bhattacharya
2007-02-09  9:52       ` Ananiev, Leonid I
2007-02-09 10:11         ` Jiri Kosina
2007-02-10 18:05         ` Ken Chen
2007-02-10 18:17           ` Ananiev, Leonid I
2007-02-10 18:27           ` Ananiev, Leonid I
2007-02-10 21:57           ` Ananiev, Leonid I
2007-02-15  9:16           ` Ananiev, Leonid I
2007-02-15 18:25             ` Zach Brown
2007-02-15 19:11               ` Ananiev, Leonid I
2007-02-15 19:22                 ` Zach Brown [this message]
2007-02-15 21:06                   ` Ananiev, Leonid I
2007-02-15 23:32                   ` Ananiev, Leonid I
2007-02-16  0:01                     ` Zach Brown
2007-02-16 12:18                       ` Ananiev, Leonid I
2007-02-09  9:54 ` Jiri Kosina
2007-02-09 10:14   ` Andrew Morton
2007-02-09 10:40     ` Jiri Kosina
2007-02-09 11:05       ` Suparna Bhattacharya
2007-02-09 11:18         ` Ananiev, Leonid I
2007-02-09 17:02         ` Zach Brown
2007-02-10 19:36 Ananiev, Leonid I
2007-02-14 17:51 Ananiev, Leonid I
2007-02-15  3:30 ` Andrew Morton
2007-02-15  5:26   ` Ananiev, Leonid I

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