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Gao Xiang
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With iterative development, our codebase can now deal with compressed buffer misses properly if both in-place I/O and compressed buffer allocation fail. Note that if readahead fails (with non-uptodate folios), the original request will then fall back to synchronous read, and `.read_folio()` should return appropriate errnos; otherwise -EIO will be passed to user space, which is unexpected. To simplify rarely encountered failure paths, a mimic decompression will be just used. Before that, failure reasons are recorded in compressed_bvecs[] and they also act as placeholders to avoid in-place pages. They will be parsed just before decompression and then pass back to `.read_folio()`. Reviewed-by: Chao Yu <chao@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Gao Xiang <hsiangkao@linux.alibaba.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240905084732.2684515-1-hsiangkao@linux.alibaba.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:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the reStructuredText 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.