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commit b01b2d72da25c000aeb124bc78daf3fb998be2b6 upstream Also disable page faults during direct I/O requests and implement a similar kind of retry logic as in the buffered I/O case. The retry logic in the direct I/O case differs from the buffered I/O case in the following way: direct I/O doesn't provide the kinds of consistency guarantees between concurrent reads and writes that buffered I/O provides, so once we lose the inode glock while faulting in user pages, we always resume the operation. We never need to return a partial read or write. This locking problem was originally reported by Jan Kara. Linus came up with the idea of disabling page faults. Many thanks to Al Viro and Matthew Wilcox for their feedback. Signed-off-by: Andreas Gruenbacher <agruenba@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Anand Jain <anand.jain@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.