It works well for me too. 

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> From: [email protected]
> To: [email protected]
> CC: [email protected]; [email protected]; 
> [email protected]; [email protected]
> Subject: RE: [PATCH] btrfs file write debugging patch
> Date: Fri, 4 Mar 2011 07:19:39 -0500
>
> Excerpts from Chris Mason's message of 2011-03-03 20:51:55 -0500:
> > Excerpts from Zhong, Xin's message of 2011-03-02 05:58:49 -0500:
> > > It seems that if we give an unaligned address to btrfs write and the 
> > > buffer reside on more than 2 pages. It will trigger this bug.
> > > If we give an aligned address to btrfs write, it works well no matter how 
> > > many pages are given.
> > >
> > > I use ftrace to observe it. It seems iov_iter_fault_in_readable do not 
> > > trigger pagefault handling when the address is not aligned. I do not 
> > > quite understand the reason behind it. But the solution should be to 
> > > process the page one by one. And that's also what generic file write 
> > > routine does.
> > >
> > > Any suggestion are welcomed. Thanks!
> >
> > Great job guys. I'm using this on top of my debugging patch. It passes
> > the unaligned test but I'll give it a real run tonight and look for
> > other problems.
> >
> > (This is almost entirely untested, please don't use it quite yet)
>
> >
> > -chris
> >
> > diff --git a/fs/btrfs/file.c b/fs/btrfs/file.c
> > index 89a6a26..6a44add 100644
> > --- a/fs/btrfs/file.c
> > +++ b/fs/btrfs/file.c
> > @@ -1039,6 +1038,14 @@ static ssize_t btrfs_file_aio_write(struct kiocb 
> > *iocb,
> >
> > copied = btrfs_copy_from_user(pos, num_pages,
> > write_bytes, pages, &i);
> > +
> > + /*
> > + * if we have trouble faulting in the pages, fall
> > + * back to one page at a time
> > + */
> > + if (copied < write_bytes)
> > + nrptrs = 1;
> > +
> > if (copied == 0)
> > dirty_pages = 0;
> > else
>
> Ok, this is working well for me. Anyone see any problems with it?
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