[Ocfs2-devel] [PATCH] ocfs2: avoid direct write if we fall back to buffered v2

[Joel Becker]

On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 09:01:56PM +0800, Li Dongyang wrote:
> -	if (direct_io) {
> -		ret = generic_segment_checks(iov, &nr_segs, &ocount,
> -					     VERIFY_READ);
> -		if (ret)
> -			goto out_dio;
> +	ret = generic_segment_checks(iov, &nr_segs, &ocount,
> +				     VERIFY_READ);
> +	if (ret)
> +		goto out_dio;
>  
> -		count = ocount;
> -		ret = generic_write_checks(file, ppos, &count,
> -					   S_ISBLK(inode->i_mode));
> -		if (ret)
> -			goto out_dio;
> +	count = ocount;
> +	ret = generic_write_checks(file, ppos, &count,
> +				   S_ISBLK(inode->i_mode));
> +	if (ret)
> +		goto out_dio;

	Make sure you add the management of current->backing_dev_info
just like __generic_file_aio_write() does.  We want to ensure that page
writeback works OK.

Joel

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