Thread (5 messages) 5 messages, 4 authors, 2016-08-17

Re: [PATCH] do_generic_file_read(): Fail immediately if killed

From: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
Date: 2016-08-17 17:20:21
Also in: linux-mm

On Tue 16-08-16 17:00:43, Bart Van Assche wrote:
If a fatal signal has been received, fail immediately instead of
trying to read more data.

See also commit ebded02788b5 ("mm: filemap: avoid unnecessary
calls to lock_page when waiting for IO to complete during a read")

Signed-off-by: Bart Van Assche <redacted>
Cc: Mel Gorman <redacted>
Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
If not anything else it makes code more readable because the real error
is hidden in page_not_up_to_date: currently...

Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
quoted hunk ↗ jump to hunk
---
 mm/filemap.c | 4 +++-
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/mm/filemap.c b/mm/filemap.c
index 2a9e84f6..bd8ab63 100644
--- a/mm/filemap.c
+++ b/mm/filemap.c
@@ -1721,7 +1721,9 @@ find_page:
 			 * wait_on_page_locked is used to avoid unnecessarily
 			 * serialisations and why it's safe.
 			 */
-			wait_on_page_locked_killable(page);
+			error = wait_on_page_locked_killable(page);
+			if (unlikely(error))
+				goto readpage_error;
 			if (PageUptodate(page))
 				goto page_ok;
 
-- 
2.9.2

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