This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
filemap: add a kiocb_invalidate_post_direct_write helper
to the 6.1-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
The filename of the patch is:
filemap-add-a-kiocb_invalidate_post_direct_write-helper.patch
and it can be found in the queue-6.1 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <[email protected]> know about it.
>From [email protected] Tue Oct 21 16:13:23
>2025
From: Mahmoud Adam <[email protected]>
Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2025 09:03:37 +0200
Subject: filemap: add a kiocb_invalidate_post_direct_write helper
To: <[email protected]>
Cc: <[email protected]>, <[email protected]>, Christoph Hellwig
<[email protected]>, Damien Le Moal <[email protected]>, Hannes Reinecke
<[email protected]>, "Darrick J. Wong" <[email protected]>, Al Viro
<[email protected]>, Andreas Gruenbacher <[email protected]>, "Anna
Schumaker" <[email protected]>, Chao Yu <[email protected]>, Christian Brauner
<[email protected]>, Ilya Dryomov <[email protected]>, Jaegeuk Kim
<[email protected]>, Jens Axboe <[email protected]>, Johannes Thumshirn
<[email protected]>, Matthew Wilcox <[email protected]>, "Miklos
Szeredi" <[email protected]>, Miklos Szeredi <[email protected]>, "Theodore
Ts'o" <[email protected]>, Trond Myklebust <[email protected]>, Xiubo
Li <[email protected]>, Andrew Morton <[email protected]>, "Jeff
Layton" <[email protected]>, Andreas Dilger <[email protected]>,
Christoph Hellwig <[email protected]>, Ryusuke Konishi
<[email protected]>, Luis Chamberlain <[email protected]>,
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From: Christoph Hellwig <[email protected]>
commit c402a9a9430b670926decbb284b756ee6f47c1ec upstream.
Add a helper to invalidate page cache after a dio write.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Damien Le Moal <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Hannes Reinecke <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Darrick J. Wong <[email protected]>
Cc: Al Viro <[email protected]>
Cc: Andreas Gruenbacher <[email protected]>
Cc: Anna Schumaker <[email protected]>
Cc: Chao Yu <[email protected]>
Cc: Christian Brauner <[email protected]>
Cc: Ilya Dryomov <[email protected]>
Cc: Jaegeuk Kim <[email protected]>
Cc: Jens Axboe <[email protected]>
Cc: Johannes Thumshirn <[email protected]>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <[email protected]>
Cc: Miklos Szeredi <[email protected]>
Cc: Miklos Szeredi <[email protected]>
Cc: Theodore Ts'o <[email protected]>
Cc: Trond Myklebust <[email protected]>
Cc: Xiubo Li <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Mahmoud Adam <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>
---
fs/direct-io.c | 10 ++--------
fs/iomap/direct-io.c | 12 ++----------
include/linux/fs.h | 5 -----
include/linux/pagemap.h | 1 +
mm/filemap.c | 37 ++++++++++++++++++++-----------------
5 files changed, 25 insertions(+), 40 deletions(-)
--- a/fs/direct-io.c
+++ b/fs/direct-io.c
@@ -286,14 +286,8 @@ static ssize_t dio_complete(struct dio *
* zeros from unwritten extents.
*/
if (flags & DIO_COMPLETE_INVALIDATE &&
- ret > 0 && dio_op == REQ_OP_WRITE &&
- dio->inode->i_mapping->nrpages) {
- err = invalidate_inode_pages2_range(dio->inode->i_mapping,
- offset >> PAGE_SHIFT,
- (offset + ret - 1) >> PAGE_SHIFT);
- if (err)
- dio_warn_stale_pagecache(dio->iocb->ki_filp);
- }
+ ret > 0 && dio_op == REQ_OP_WRITE)
+ kiocb_invalidate_post_direct_write(dio->iocb, ret);
inode_dio_end(dio->inode);
--- a/fs/iomap/direct-io.c
+++ b/fs/iomap/direct-io.c
@@ -81,7 +81,6 @@ ssize_t iomap_dio_complete(struct iomap_
{
const struct iomap_dio_ops *dops = dio->dops;
struct kiocb *iocb = dio->iocb;
- struct inode *inode = file_inode(iocb->ki_filp);
loff_t offset = iocb->ki_pos;
ssize_t ret = dio->error;
@@ -108,15 +107,8 @@ ssize_t iomap_dio_complete(struct iomap_
* ->end_io() when necessary, otherwise a racing buffer read would cache
* zeros from unwritten extents.
*/
- if (!dio->error && dio->size &&
- (dio->flags & IOMAP_DIO_WRITE) && inode->i_mapping->nrpages) {
- int err;
- err = invalidate_inode_pages2_range(inode->i_mapping,
- offset >> PAGE_SHIFT,
- (offset + dio->size - 1) >> PAGE_SHIFT);
- if (err)
- dio_warn_stale_pagecache(iocb->ki_filp);
- }
+ if (!dio->error && dio->size && (dio->flags & IOMAP_DIO_WRITE))
+ kiocb_invalidate_post_direct_write(iocb, dio->size);
inode_dio_end(file_inode(iocb->ki_filp));
if (ret > 0) {
--- a/include/linux/fs.h
+++ b/include/linux/fs.h
@@ -3371,11 +3371,6 @@ static inline void inode_dio_end(struct
wake_up_bit(&inode->i_state, __I_DIO_WAKEUP);
}
-/*
- * Warn about a page cache invalidation failure diring a direct I/O write.
- */
-void dio_warn_stale_pagecache(struct file *filp);
-
extern void inode_set_flags(struct inode *inode, unsigned int flags,
unsigned int mask);
--- a/include/linux/pagemap.h
+++ b/include/linux/pagemap.h
@@ -31,6 +31,7 @@ int invalidate_inode_pages2(struct addre
int invalidate_inode_pages2_range(struct address_space *mapping,
pgoff_t start, pgoff_t end);
int kiocb_invalidate_pages(struct kiocb *iocb, size_t count);
+void kiocb_invalidate_post_direct_write(struct kiocb *iocb, size_t count);
int write_inode_now(struct inode *, int sync);
int filemap_fdatawrite(struct address_space *);
int filemap_flush(struct address_space *);
--- a/mm/filemap.c
+++ b/mm/filemap.c
@@ -3733,7 +3733,7 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(read_cache_page_gfp);
/*
* Warn about a page cache invalidation failure during a direct I/O write.
*/
-void dio_warn_stale_pagecache(struct file *filp)
+static void dio_warn_stale_pagecache(struct file *filp)
{
static DEFINE_RATELIMIT_STATE(_rs, 86400 * HZ, DEFAULT_RATELIMIT_BURST);
char pathname[128];
@@ -3750,19 +3750,23 @@ void dio_warn_stale_pagecache(struct fil
}
}
+void kiocb_invalidate_post_direct_write(struct kiocb *iocb, size_t count)
+{
+ struct address_space *mapping = iocb->ki_filp->f_mapping;
+
+ if (mapping->nrpages &&
+ invalidate_inode_pages2_range(mapping,
+ iocb->ki_pos >> PAGE_SHIFT,
+ (iocb->ki_pos + count - 1) >> PAGE_SHIFT))
+ dio_warn_stale_pagecache(iocb->ki_filp);
+}
+
ssize_t
generic_file_direct_write(struct kiocb *iocb, struct iov_iter *from)
{
- struct file *file = iocb->ki_filp;
- struct address_space *mapping = file->f_mapping;
- struct inode *inode = mapping->host;
- loff_t pos = iocb->ki_pos;
- ssize_t written;
- size_t write_len;
- pgoff_t end;
-
- write_len = iov_iter_count(from);
- end = (pos + write_len - 1) >> PAGE_SHIFT;
+ struct address_space *mapping = iocb->ki_filp->f_mapping;
+ size_t write_len = iov_iter_count(from);
+ ssize_t written;
/*
* If a page can not be invalidated, return 0 to fall back
@@ -3772,7 +3776,7 @@ generic_file_direct_write(struct kiocb *
if (written) {
if (written == -EBUSY)
return 0;
- goto out;
+ return written;
}
written = mapping->a_ops->direct_IO(iocb, from);
@@ -3794,11 +3798,11 @@ generic_file_direct_write(struct kiocb *
*
* Skip invalidation for async writes or if mapping has no pages.
*/
- if (written > 0 && mapping->nrpages &&
- invalidate_inode_pages2_range(mapping, pos >> PAGE_SHIFT, end))
- dio_warn_stale_pagecache(file);
-
if (written > 0) {
+ struct inode *inode = mapping->host;
+ loff_t pos = iocb->ki_pos;
+
+ kiocb_invalidate_post_direct_write(iocb, written);
pos += written;
write_len -= written;
if (pos > i_size_read(inode) && !S_ISBLK(inode->i_mode)) {
@@ -3809,7 +3813,6 @@ generic_file_direct_write(struct kiocb *
}
if (written != -EIOCBQUEUED)
iov_iter_revert(from, write_len - iov_iter_count(from));
-out:
return written;
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL(generic_file_direct_write);
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from [email protected] are
queue-6.1/block-fix-race-between-set_blocksize-and-read-paths.patch
queue-6.1/filemap-add-a-kiocb_invalidate_pages-helper.patch
queue-6.1/fs-factor-out-a-direct_write_fallback-helper.patch
queue-6.1/direct_write_fallback-on-error-revert-the-ki_pos-update-from-buffered-write.patch
queue-6.1/filemap-update-ki_pos-in-generic_perform_write.patch
queue-6.1/filemap-add-a-kiocb_invalidate_post_direct_write-helper.patch
queue-6.1/nilfs2-fix-deadlock-warnings-caused-by-lock-dependency-in-init_nilfs.patch
queue-6.1/block-open-code-__generic_file_write_iter-for-blkdev-writes.patch
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