[PATCH 041/270] pnfsblock: fix partial page buffer wirte

[Peng, Tao]

Sorry for the late response. I will get it done in the weekend. The only one that need backport is bellow patch. The two DIO patches are not necessary because 3.4 NFS DIO does not support pNFS yet.

Thanks,
Tao
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From: Myklebust, Trond [Trond.Myklebust at netapp.com]
Sent: Friday, November 30, 2012 9:48 PM
To: Greg Kroah-Hartman; Ben Hutchings
Cc: Peng, Tao; linux-kernel at vger.kernel.org; stable at vger.kernel.org; kernel-team at lists.ubuntu.com; Herton Ronaldo Krzesinski
Subject: RE: [PATCH 041/270] pnfsblock: fix partial page buffer wirte

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Greg Kroah-Hartman [mailto:gregkh at linuxfoundation.org]
> Sent: Thursday, November 29, 2012 8:46 PM
> To: Ben Hutchings
> Cc: Peng Tao; Myklebust, Trond; linux-kernel at vger.kernel.org;
> stable at vger.kernel.org; kernel-team at lists.ubuntu.com; Herton Ronaldo
> Krzesinski
> Subject: Re: [PATCH 041/270] pnfsblock: fix partial page buffer wirte
>
> On Tue, Nov 27, 2012 at 02:33:24AM +0000, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> > On Mon, 2012-11-26 at 14:55 -0200, Herton Ronaldo Krzesinski wrote:
> > > 3.5.7u1 -stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me
> know.
> > >
> > > ------------------
> > >
> > > From: Peng Tao <bergwolf at gmail.com>
> > >
> > > commit fe6e1e8d9fad86873eb74a26e80a8f91f9e870b5 upstream.
> > >
> > > If applications use flock to protect its write range, generic NFS
> > > will not do read-modify-write cycle at page cache level. Therefore
> > > LD should know how to handle non-sector aligned writes. Otherwise
> > > there will be data corruption.
> > >
> > > Signed-off-by: Peng Tao <tao.peng at emc.com>
> > > Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust at netapp.com>
> > > Signed-off-by: Herton Ronaldo Krzesinski
> > > <herton.krzesinski at canonical.com>
> > [...]
> >
> > I notice that this fix is missing from 3.4, and will need backporting.
>
> I don't trust myself with backporting this, as I got it wrong.  So if one of the
> NFS developers wants to do this (same goes for the other NFS patch), I'll
> gladly take it.
>

Tao would be the right person to do this since he has access to pNFS blocks hardware and can test the results.

Cheers
  Trond