On 06/17/2016 03:18 AM, Darrick J. Wong wrote:
Invalidate the page cache (as a regular O_DIRECT write would do) to avoid
returning stale cache contents at a later time.

v5: Refactor the 4.4 refactoring of the ioctl code into separate functions.
Split the page invalidation and the new ioctl into separate patches.

Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <[email protected]>
---
 block/ioctl.c |   29 +++++++++++++++++++++++------
 1 file changed, 23 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)


diff --git a/block/ioctl.c b/block/ioctl.c
index ed2397f..d001f52 100644
--- a/block/ioctl.c
+++ b/block/ioctl.c
@@ -225,7 +225,9 @@ static int blk_ioctl_zeroout(struct block_device *bdev, 
fmode_t mode,
                unsigned long arg)
 {
        uint64_t range[2];
-       uint64_t start, len;
+       struct address_space *mapping;
+       uint64_t start, end, len;
+       int ret;

        if (!(mode & FMODE_WRITE))
                return -EBADF;
@@ -235,18 +237,33 @@ static int blk_ioctl_zeroout(struct block_device *bdev, 
fmode_t mode,

        start = range[0];
        len = range[1];
+       end = start + len - 1;

        if (start & 511)
                return -EINVAL;
        if (len & 511)
                return -EINVAL;
-       start >>= 9;
-       len >>= 9;
-
-       if (start + len > (i_size_read(bdev->bd_inode) >> 9))
+       if (end >= (uint64_t)i_size_read(bdev->bd_inode))
+               return -EINVAL;
+       if (end < start)
                return -EINVAL;

-       return blkdev_issue_zeroout(bdev, start, len, GFP_KERNEL, false);
+       /* Invalidate the page cache, including dirty pages */
+       mapping = bdev->bd_inode->i_mapping;
+       truncate_inode_pages_range(mapping, start, end);
+
+       ret = blkdev_issue_zeroout(bdev, start >> 9, len >> 9, GFP_KERNEL,
+                                   false);
+       if (ret)
+               return ret;
+
+       /*
+        * Invalidate again; if someone wandered in and dirtied a page,
+        * the caller will be given -EBUSY.
+        */
+       return invalidate_inode_pages2_range(mapping,
+                                            start >> PAGE_SHIFT,
+                                            end >> PAGE_SHIFT);
 }

Hello Darrick,

Maybe this has already been discussed, but anyway: in the POSIX spec (http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/write.html) I found the following: "This volume of POSIX.1-2008 does not specify behavior of concurrent writes to a file from multiple processes. Applications should use some form of concurrency control."

Do we really need the invalidate_inode_pages2_range() call?

Thanks,

Bart.

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