Re: [PATCH] nfs: fix nfs_writepage()

[Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>]

On Wed, 2007-10-17 at 11:25 -0400, Trond Myklebust wrote:
> On Wed, 2007-10-17 at 15:40 +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> > I noticed that ->writepage() didn't actually do anything since it
> > doesn't generate a write request for the given page.
> > 
> > The below is an attempt at fixing it, and it works for me. Although I'm
> > not quite sure its the proper fix.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
> > ---
> >  fs/nfs/write.c |   20 ++++++++++++++++++++
> >  1 file changed, 20 insertions(+)
> > 
> > Index: linux-2.6/fs/nfs/write.c
> > ===================================================================
> > --- linux-2.6.orig/fs/nfs/write.c
> > +++ linux-2.6/fs/nfs/write.c
> > @@ -332,10 +332,30 @@ static int nfs_page_async_flush(struct n
> >  static int nfs_do_writepage(struct page *page, struct writeback_control *wbc, struct nfs_pageio_descriptor *pgio)
> >  {
> >  	struct inode *inode = page_file_mapping(page)->host;
> > +	struct rpc_cred *cred;
> > +	struct nfs_open_context *ctx;
> > +	int status;
> >  
> >  	nfs_inc_stats(inode, NFSIOS_VFSWRITEPAGE);
> >  	nfs_add_stats(inode, NFSIOS_WRITEPAGES, 1);
> >  
> > +	cred = rpcauth_lookupcred(NFS_CLIENT(inode)->cl_auth, 0);
> > +	if (IS_ERR(cred))
> > +		return PTR_ERR(cred);
> > +
> > +	ctx = nfs_find_open_context(inode, cred, FMODE_WRITE);
> > +	if (!ctx)
> > +		return -EBADF;
> > +
> > +	status = nfs_writepage_setup(ctx, page, 0, nfs_page_length(page));
> > +
> > +	put_nfs_open_context(ctx);
> > +
> > +	if (status < 0) {
> > +		nfs_set_pageerror(page);
> > +		return status;
> > +	}
> > +
> >  	nfs_pageio_cond_complete(pgio, page_file_index(page));
> >  	return nfs_page_async_flush(pgio, page);
> >  }
> 
> NACK. writepage()'s job is simply to start writeout on the page.
> nfs_vm_page_mkwrite(), and nfs_commit_write() actually set up the
> nfs_page structure before we ever get to writepage().

Do all a_ops require this? From what I can gather other address_spaces
do not require this, but I might be wrong.

The thing is, swapper_space just calls ->writepage() and expects the
page to be written out. So either the a_ops usage of swapper_space is
deviant or NFS' is.