Thread (49 messages) 49 messages, 6 authors, 2017-05-19

Re: [PATCH v4 21/27] mm: clean up error handling in write_one_page

From: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Date: 2017-05-15 12:01:14
Also in: linux-btrfs, linux-cifs, linux-ext4, linux-f2fs-devel, linux-fsdevel, linux-mm, linux-nfs, linux-xfs, lkml

On Tue 09-05-17 11:49:24, Jeff Layton wrote:
Don't try to check PageError since that's potentially racy and not
necessarily going to be set after writepage errors out.

Instead, sample the mapping error early on, and use that value to tell
us whether we got a writeback error since then.

Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton <redacted>
Looks good to me. You can add:

Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>

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---
 mm/page-writeback.c | 11 +++++------
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
diff --git a/mm/page-writeback.c b/mm/page-writeback.c
index de0dbf12e2c1..1643456881b4 100644
--- a/mm/page-writeback.c
+++ b/mm/page-writeback.c
@@ -2373,11 +2373,12 @@ int do_writepages(struct address_space *mapping, struct writeback_control *wbc)
 int write_one_page(struct page *page)
 {
 	struct address_space *mapping = page->mapping;
-	int ret = 0;
+	int ret = 0, ret2;
 	struct writeback_control wbc = {
 		.sync_mode = WB_SYNC_ALL,
 		.nr_to_write = 1,
 	};
+	errseq_t since = filemap_sample_wb_error(mapping);
 
 	BUG_ON(!PageLocked(page));
 
@@ -2386,16 +2387,14 @@ int write_one_page(struct page *page)
 	if (clear_page_dirty_for_io(page)) {
 		get_page(page);
 		ret = mapping->a_ops->writepage(page, &wbc);
-		if (ret == 0) {
+		if (ret == 0)
 			wait_on_page_writeback(page);
-			if (PageError(page))
-				ret = -EIO;
-		}
 		put_page(page);
 	} else {
 		unlock_page(page);
 	}
-	return ret;
+	ret2 = filemap_check_wb_error(mapping, since);
+	return ret ? : ret2;
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(write_one_page);
 
-- 
2.9.3
-- 
Jan Kara [off-list ref]
SUSE Labs, CR
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