readahead: stricter check for bdi io_pages
ondemand_readahead() checks bdi->io_pages to cap the maximum pages that need to be processed. This works until the readit section. If we would do an async only readahead (async size = sync size) and target is at beginning of window we expand the pages by another get_next_ra_size() pages. Btrace for large reads shows that kernel always issues a doubled size read at the beginning of processing. Add an additional check for io_pages in the lower part of the func. The fix helps devices that hard limit bio pages and rely on proper handling of max_hw_read_sectors (e.g. older FusionIO cards). For that reason it could qualify for stable. Fixes: 9491ae4a ("mm: don't cap request size based on read-ahead setting") Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Markus Stockhausen stockhausen@collogia.de Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
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