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Currently we hold the extent lock for the entire duration of a read. This isn't really necessary in the buffered case, we're protected by the page lock, however it's necessary for O_DIRECT. For O_DIRECT reads, if we only locked the extent for the part where we get the extent, we could potentially race with an O_DIRECT write in the same region. This isn't really a problem, unless the read is delayed so much that the write does the COW, unpins the old extent, and some other application re-allocates the extent before the read is actually able to be submitted. At that point at best we'd have a checksum mismatch, but at worse we could read data that doesn't belong to us. To address this potential race we need to make sure we don't have overlapping, concurrent direct io reads and writes. To accomplish this use the new EXTENT_DIO_LOCKED bit in the direct IO case in the same spot as the current extent lock. The writes will take this while they're creating the ordered extent, which is also used to make sure concurrent buffered reads or concurrent direct reads are not allowed to occur, and drop it after the ordered extent is taken. For reads it will act as the current read behavior for the EXTENT_LOCKED bit, we set it when we're starting the read, we clear it in the end_io to allow other direct writes to continue. This still has the drawback of disallowing concurrent overlapping direct reads from occurring, but that exists with the current extent locking. Signed-off-by: Josef Bacik <josef@toxicpanda.com> Reviewed-by: David Sterba <dsterba@suse.com> Signed-off-by: David Sterba <dsterba@suse.com>
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