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From: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
To: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
Cc: Dave Jones <davej@codemonkey.org.uk>,
	"Darrick J. Wong" <darrick.wong@oracle.com>,
	Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	linux-xfs@vger.kernel.org, Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Subject: Re: iov_iter_pipe warning.
Date: Mon, 11 Sep 2017 00:15:19 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170910231519.GH5426@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20170910230723.GG5426@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>

On Mon, Sep 11, 2017 at 12:07:23AM +0100, Al Viro wrote:

> BTW, another problem I see there is that iomap_dio_actor() should *NOT*
> assume that do-while loop in there will always manage to shove 'length'
> bytes out in case of success.  That is simply not true for pipe-backed
> destination.  And I'm not sure if outright failures halfway through
> are handled correctly.  What does it need a copy of dio->submit.iter for,
> anyway?  Why not work with dio->submit.iter directly?

I mean, if it's just a matter of iov_iter_truncate() to be undone in
the end, that's not hard to do - iov_iter_reexpand() is there.  Or is there
something more subtle in the play?

  reply	other threads:[~2017-09-10 23:15 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 73+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-03-21 20:59 iov_iter_pipe warning Dave Jones
2017-04-05 22:02 ` Dave Jones
2017-04-10 19:28 ` Al Viro
2017-04-10 19:42   ` Dave Jones
2017-04-10 19:57     ` Al Viro
2017-04-10 23:48       ` Dave Jones
2017-04-11  0:22         ` Al Viro
2017-04-11  3:05           ` Dave Jones
2017-04-11  3:28             ` Al Viro
2017-04-11 20:53               ` Dave Jones
2017-04-11 21:12                 ` Al Viro
2017-04-11 22:25                   ` Dave Jones
2017-04-11 23:28                     ` Al Viro
2017-04-11 23:34                       ` Dave Jones
2017-04-11 23:48                         ` Al Viro
2017-04-11 23:45                       ` Dave Jones
2017-04-11 23:51                         ` Al Viro
2017-04-11 23:56                           ` Al Viro
2017-04-12  0:06                             ` Dave Jones
2017-04-12  0:17                               ` Al Viro
2017-04-12  0:58                                 ` Dave Jones
2017-04-12  1:15                                   ` Al Viro
2017-04-12  2:29                                     ` Dave Jones
2017-04-12  2:58                                       ` Al Viro
2017-04-12 14:35                                         ` Dave Jones
2017-04-12 15:26                                           ` Al Viro
2017-04-12 16:27                                             ` Dave Jones
2017-04-12 17:07                                               ` Al Viro
2017-04-12 19:03                                                 ` Dave Jones
2017-04-21 17:54                                                   ` Al Viro
2017-04-27  4:19                                                     ` Dave Jones
2017-04-27 16:34                                                       ` Dave Jones
2017-04-27 17:39                                                         ` Al Viro
2017-04-28 15:29                                                     ` Dave Jones
2017-04-28 16:43                                                       ` Al Viro
2017-04-28 16:50                                                         ` Dave Jones
2017-04-28 17:20                                                           ` Al Viro
2017-04-28 18:25                                                             ` Al Viro
2017-04-29  1:58                                                               ` Dave Jones
2017-04-29  2:47                                                                 ` Al Viro
2017-04-29 15:51                                                                   ` Dave Jones
2017-04-29 20:46                                                                     ` [git pull] vfs.git fix (Re: iov_iter_pipe warning.) Al Viro
2017-08-07 20:18                                                             ` iov_iter_pipe warning Dave Jones
2017-08-28 20:31                                                               ` Dave Jones
2017-08-29  4:25                                                                 ` Darrick J. Wong
2017-08-30 17:05                                                                   ` Dave Jones
2017-08-30 17:13                                                                     ` Darrick J. Wong
2017-08-30 17:17                                                                       ` Dave Jones
2017-09-06 20:03                                                                   ` Dave Jones
2017-09-06 23:46                                                                     ` Dave Chinner
2017-09-07  3:48                                                                       ` Dave Jones
2017-09-07  4:33                                                                         ` Al Viro
2017-09-08  1:04                                                                       ` Al Viro
2017-09-10  1:07                                                                         ` Dave Jones
2017-09-10  2:57                                                                           ` Al Viro
2017-09-10 16:07                                                                             ` Dave Jones
2017-09-10 20:05                                                                               ` Al Viro
2017-09-10 20:07                                                                                 ` Dave Jones
2017-09-10 20:33                                                                                   ` Al Viro
2017-09-10 21:11                                                                             ` Dave Chinner
2017-09-10 21:19                                                                               ` Al Viro
2017-09-10 22:08                                                                                 ` Dave Chinner
2017-09-10 23:07                                                                                   ` Al Viro
2017-09-10 23:15                                                                                     ` Al Viro [this message]
2017-09-11  0:31                                                                                     ` Dave Chinner
2017-09-11  3:32                                                                                       ` Al Viro
2017-09-11  6:44                                                                                         ` Dave Chinner
2017-09-11 20:07                                                                                           ` Al Viro
2017-09-11 20:17                                                                                             ` Al Viro
2017-09-12  6:02                                                                                             ` Dave Chinner
2017-09-12 11:13                                                                                               ` Al Viro
2017-09-11 12:07                                                                                     ` Christoph Hellwig
2017-09-11 12:51                                                                                       ` Al Viro

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