Thread (13 messages) 13 messages, 4 authors, 2021-08-19

Re: [RFC PATCH v2 5/5] mm: Remove swap BIO paths and only use DIO paths [BROKEN]

From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Date: 2021-08-13 07:14:20
Also in: linux-fsdevel, linux-mm, lkml

On Thu, Aug 12, 2021 at 09:22:41PM +0100, David Howells wrote:
[!] NOTE: This doesn't work and might damage your disk's contents.

Delete the BIO-generating swap read/write paths and always use
->direct_IO().  This puts the mapping layer in the filesystem.

This doesn't work - probably due to ki_pos being set to
page_file_offset(page) which then gets remapped.
Also because most common block file systems do not actually implement
a ->direct_IO that does anything (noop_direct_IO).
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