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    [PATCH] splice(): fix interaction with readahead · 9ae9d68c
    Fengguang Wu 提交于
    Eric Dumazet, thank you for disclosing this bug.
    
    Readahead logic somehow fails to populate the page range with data.
    It can be because
    
    1) the readahead routine is not always called in the following lines of
    
    fs/splice.c:
            if (!loff || nr_pages > 1)
                    page_cache_readahead(mapping, &in->f_ra, in, index, nr_pages);
    
    2) even called, page_cache_readahead() wont guarantee the pages are there.
    It wont submit readahead I/O for pages already in the radix tree, or when
    (ra_pages == 0), or after 256 cache hits.
    
    In your case, it should be because of the retried reads, which lead to
    excessive cache hits, and disables readahead at some time.
    
    And that _one_ failure of readahead blocks the whole read process.
    The application receives EAGAIN and retries the read, but
    __generic_file_splice_read() refuse to make progress:
    
    - in the previous invocation, it has allocated a blank page and inserted it
      into the radix tree, but never has the chance to start I/O for it: the test
      of SPLICE_F_NONBLOCK goes before that.
    
    - in the retried invocation, the readahead code will neither get out of the
      cache hit mode, nor will it submit I/O for an already existing page.
    
    Cc: Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com>
    Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
    Signed-off-by: NJens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
    9ae9d68c
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