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Currently, for a direct IO write, if we need to fallback to buffered IO, either to satisfy the whole write operation or just a part of it, we do it in the current context even if it's a NOWAIT context. This is not ideal because we currently don't have support for NOWAIT semantics in the buffered IO path (we can block for several reasons), so we should instead return -EAGAIN to the caller, so that it knows it should retry (the whole operation or what's left of it) in a context where blocking is acceptable. Signed-off-by: Filipe Manana <fdmanana@suse.com> Reviewed-by: David Sterba <dsterba@suse.com> Signed-off-by: David Sterba <dsterba@suse.com>
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
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There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.