Messages in this thread Patch in this message | | | Subject | Re: [regression?] distcc says: (dcc_pump_sendfile) ERROR: sendfile returned 0? can't cope (bisected) | From | Tom Zanussi <> | Date | Thu, 08 May 2008 23:22:19 -0500 |
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On Thu, 2008-05-08 at 02:21 -0500, Tom Zanussi wrote: > On Wed, 2008-05-07 at 23:16 +0200, Jens Axboe wrote: > > On Wed, May 07 2008, Dan Williams wrote: > > > Hi Tom, Jens, > > > > > > My build system started reporting these error messages recently. > > > Reverting commit c3270e577c18b3d0e984c3371493205a4807db9d on top of > > > 2.6.26-rc1 gets things working for me again. > > > > Irk, that patch did scare me a bit (hence I asked Tom to double check as > > wel :-). I'll take a look in the morning, all test boxes are off at this > > point in time. > > > > I did, and it still looks ok to me, but obviously it's not, so I'll have > to do some more digging. > > The only thing I can think of right now that might be a possible cause > would be in splice_direct_to_actor(), if we had an incomplete transfer, > the sd->pos returned and assigned would have the value set by the failed > actor(). Maybe something like the following would take care of that > case, but I haven't had a chance to test it yet - will do that tomorrow > night... >
Looks like I was on the right track - can you try this patch out instead? It makes sure sd.pos is updated correctly if the transfer was incomplete or failed. I ran some kernel compiles using distcc while running blktrace in sendfile mode and didn't see any problems with either.
Tom
diff --git a/fs/splice.c b/fs/splice.c index 633f58e..3bd95a7 100644 --- a/fs/splice.c +++ b/fs/splice.c @@ -986,7 +986,7 @@ ssize_t splice_direct_to_actor(struct file *in, struct splice_desc *sd, while (len) { size_t read_len; - loff_t pos = sd->pos; + loff_t pos = sd->pos, prev_pos = pos; ret = do_splice_to(in, &pos, pipe, len, flags); if (unlikely(ret <= 0)) @@ -1001,15 +1001,19 @@ ssize_t splice_direct_to_actor(struct file *in, struct splice_desc *sd, * could get stuck data in the internal pipe: */ ret = actor(pipe, sd); - if (unlikely(ret <= 0)) + if (unlikely(ret <= 0)) { + sd->pos = prev_pos; goto out_release; + } bytes += ret; len -= ret; sd->pos = pos; - if (ret < read_len) + if (ret < read_len) { + sd->pos = prev_pos + ret; goto out_release; + } } done:
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