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    iomap: complete partial direct I/O writes synchronously · ebf00be3
    Andreas Gruenbacher authored
    
    
    According to xfstest generic/240, applications seem to expect direct I/O
    writes to either complete as a whole or to fail; short direct I/O writes
    are apparently not appreciated.  This means that when only part of an
    asynchronous direct I/O write succeeds, we can either fail the entire
    write, or we can wait for the partial write to complete and retry the
    remaining write as buffered I/O.  The old __blockdev_direct_IO helper
    has code for waiting for partial writes to complete; the new
    iomap_dio_rw iomap helper does not.
    
    The above mentioned fallback mode is needed for gfs2, which doesn't
    allow block allocations under direct I/O to avoid taking cluster-wide
    exclusive locks.  As a consequence, an asynchronous direct I/O write to
    a file range that contains a hole will result in a short write.  In that
    case, wait for the short write to complete to allow gfs2 to recover.
    
    Signed-off-by: default avatarAndreas Gruenbacher <agruenba@redhat.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarChristoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
    Reviewed-by: default avatarDarrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@oracle.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarDarrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@oracle.com>
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