Re: [PATCH] mm/filemap.c: fix criteria of calling iov_shorten() ingeneric_file_direct_write()

From: Gu Zheng
Date: Thu Apr 25 2013 - 02:56:51 EST


On 04/24/2013 08:21 PM, Jan Kara wrote:

> On Tue 23-04-13 16:37:43, Gu Zheng wrote:
>> From 35947e6535d92c54cf523470cc8811e8b5fee3e5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
>> From: Gu Zheng <guz.fnst@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> Date: Tue, 23 Apr 2013 16:09:04 +0800
>> Subject: [PATCH] mm/filemap.c: fix criteria of calling iov_shorten() in generic_file_direct_write()
>>
>> generic_file_direct_write() compares 'count'(the max count we actually can write)
>> with 'ocount'(the count we request to write) to see if there is need to call
>> iov_shorten() to reduce number of segments and the iovec's length. If the
>> 'count' is equal or greater than 'ocount', there is no need to call iov_shorten()
>> indeed. So the judgement should be changed:
>> 'if (count != ocount)' --> 'if (count < ocount)'
> Thanks for the patch but it shouldn't be really possible that count >
> ocount, should it? So your patch doesn't really fix anything. Or am I
> missing something?

Hi Jan,
You are right, 'count' should not be greater than 'ocount' actually.
Please ignore this patch.

Thanks,
Gu

>
> Honza
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Gu Zheng <guz.fnst@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> ---
>> mm/filemap.c | 2 +-
>> 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/mm/filemap.c b/mm/filemap.c
>> index e1979fd..c566b9c 100644
>> --- a/mm/filemap.c
>> +++ b/mm/filemap.c
>> @@ -2183,7 +2183,7 @@ generic_file_direct_write(struct kiocb *iocb, const struct iovec *iov,
>> size_t write_len;
>> pgoff_t end;
>>
>> - if (count != ocount)
>> + if (count < ocount)
>> *nr_segs = iov_shorten((struct iovec *)iov, *nr_segs, count);
>>
>> write_len = iov_length(iov, *nr_segs);
>> --
>> 1.7.7
>>
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