[dm-devel] [PATCH RESEND 1/2 block#for-linus] bio, fs: update READA and SWRITE to match the corresponding BIO_RW_* bits

Tejun Heo tj at kernel.org
Mon Aug 2 14:17:59 UTC 2010


Commit a82afdf (block: use the same failfast bits for bio and request)
moved BIO_RW_* bits around such that they match up with REQ_* bits.
Unfortunately, fs.h hard coded READ, WRITE, READA and SWRITE as 0, 1,
2 and 3, and expected them to match with BIO_RW_* bits.  READ/WRITE
didn't change but BIO_RW_AHEAD was moved to bit 4 instead of bit 1,
breaking READA and SWRITE.

This patch updates READA and SWRITE such that they match the BIO_RW_*
bits again.  A follow up patch will update the definitions to directly
use BIO_RW_* bits so that this kind of breakage won't happen again.

Stable: The offending commit a82afdf was released with v2.6.32, so
this patch should be applied to all kernels since then but it must
_NOT_ be applied to kernels earlier than that.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj at kernel.org>
Reported-and-bisected-by: Vladislav Bolkhovitin <vst at vlnb.net>
Root-caused-by: Neil Brown <neilb at suse.de>
Cc: Jens Axobe <axboe at kernel.dk>
Cc: stable at kernel.org
---
Aieee... thanks for root causing it Neil.  That was a stupid bug.  I
knew that READ/WRITE were hardcoded but forgot about READA.  :-(
Moving BIO_RW_AHEAD back to bit 1 might be a better solution but I'm
afraid that would cause more confusions downstream.  This patch
updates READA and SWRITE to match BIO_RW_AHEAD and should also appear
in -stable releases.  The next patch will create bio_types.h and
define all constants in terms of BIO_RW_*.

Thanks.

(resending w/ Jens' new address)

 include/linux/fs.h |    4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

Index: work/include/linux/fs.h
===================================================================
--- work.orig/include/linux/fs.h
+++ work/include/linux/fs.h
@@ -148,8 +148,8 @@ struct inodes_stat_t {
 #define RWA_MASK	2
 #define READ 0
 #define WRITE 1
-#define READA 2		/* read-ahead  - don't block if no resources */
-#define SWRITE 3	/* for ll_rw_block() - wait for buffer lock */
+#define READA 16	/* read-ahead  - don't block if no resources */
+#define SWRITE 17	/* for ll_rw_block() - wait for buffer lock */
 #define READ_SYNC	(READ | (1 << BIO_RW_SYNCIO) | (1 << BIO_RW_UNPLUG))
 #define READ_META	(READ | (1 << BIO_RW_META))
 #define WRITE_SYNC_PLUG	(WRITE | (1 << BIO_RW_SYNCIO) | (1 << BIO_RW_NOIDLE))




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