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Re: 2.6.2-rc2 nfsd+xfs spins in i_size_read()

To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: 2.6.2-rc2 nfsd+xfs spins in i_size_read()
From: Steve Lord <lord@xxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 03 Feb 2004 08:13:04 -0600
Cc: Miquel van Smoorenburg <miquels@xxxxxxxxxx>, Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxx>, Nathan Scott <nathans@xxxxxxx>, linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, linux-xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx
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Christoph Hellwig wrote:
Okay, what about this little patch?:


Index: fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_iops.c
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvs/linux-2.6-xfs/fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_iops.c,v
retrieving revision 1.212
diff -u -p -r1.212 xfs_iops.c
--- fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_iops.c 12 Dec 2003 04:17:52 -0000 1.212
+++ fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_iops.c 3 Feb 2004 23:56:17 -0000
@@ -80,11 +80,15 @@ validate_fields(
vattr_t va;
int error;
- va.va_mask = XFS_AT_NLINK|XFS_AT_SIZE|XFS_AT_NBLOCKS;
+ va.va_mask = XFS_AT_NLINK|XFS_AT_SIZE|XFS_AT_NBLOCKS|XFS_AT_SIZE;
VOP_GETATTR(vp, &va, ATTR_LAZY, NULL, error);
ip->i_nlink = va.va_nlink;
ip->i_size = va.va_size;
ip->i_blocks = va.va_nblocks;
+
+ /* we're under i_sem so i_size can't change under us */
+ if (i_size_read(ip) != va.va_size)
+ i_size_write(ip, va.va_size);
}
/*
@@ -186,8 +190,7 @@ linvfs_mknod(
if (S_ISCHR(mode) || S_ISBLK(mode))
ip->i_rdev = rdev;
- else if (S_ISDIR(mode))
- validate_fields(ip);
+ validate_fields(ip);

There was some reason this was only necessary on directories, but I cannot remember why just now.

d_instantiate(dentry, ip);
validate_fields(dir);
}
@@ -536,6 +539,7 @@ linvfs_setattr(
if (error)
return(-error); /* Positive error up from XFS */
if (ia_valid & ATTR_SIZE) {
+ i_size_write(inode, vattr.va_size);
error = vmtruncate(inode, attr->ia_size);
}
Index: fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_vnode.c
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvs/linux-2.6-xfs/fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_vnode.c,v
retrieving revision 1.120
diff -u -p -r1.120 xfs_vnode.c
--- fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_vnode.c 20 Oct 2003 02:08:58 -0000 1.120
+++ fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_vnode.c 3 Feb 2004 23:56:17 -0000
@@ -213,7 +213,6 @@ vn_revalidate(
inode->i_mtime = va.va_mtime;
inode->i_ctime = va.va_ctime;
inode->i_atime = va.va_atime;
- i_size_write(inode, va.va_size);
if (va.va_xflags & XFS_XFLAG_IMMUTABLE)
inode->i_flags |= S_IMMUTABLE;
else



I think this should work, it just leaves the extending O_DIRECT write case. Keeping the revalidate call out of the path for creating regular files would be nice though, why did you deem that necessary?

Steve


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