[PATCH] Re-dirty pages on I/O error

[Dave Chinner]

On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 12:48:38PM +1100, Lachlan McIlroy wrote:
> [This patch seems to have slipped through the proverbial crack.]
>
> If we get an error in xfs_page_state_convert() - and it's not EAGAIN - then
> we throw away the dirty page without converting the delayed allocation.  This
> leaves delayed allocations that can never be removed and confuses code that
> expects a flush of the file to clear them.  We need to re-dirty the page on
> error so we can try again later or report that the flush failed.

As discussed previously, the fix that is needed in the page
invalidation path. i.e.  the page invalidate path clears the
buffer_delay() flag (via discard_buffer) before we get to
->releasepage and so releasepage fails to convert the delalloc
extent before tossing the page....

Cheers,

Dave.
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Dave Chinner
david at fromorbit.com