Re: O_DIRECT foolish question

Bruno Diniz de Paula (diniz@cs.rutgers.edu)
12 Feb 2003 18:22:35 -0500


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Just to complete the information, I am trying to read a file with 5
bytes, and here is the piece of code I am using:

char *message;
int fd =3D open("/var/tmp/testopen.txt", O_RDONLY|O_DIRECT);
int len, pagesize =3D getpagesize();

posix_memalign((void **)&message, pagesize, pagesize);
if(fd < 0) {
printf("Unable to open file, errno is %d.\n", errno);
} else {
if((len =3D read(fd, message, pagesize)) < 0) {
perror("read");
} else {
printf("%d bytes read from file.\n", len);
printf("Message: %s", message);
}
}
close(fd);

Thanks,

Bruno.

On Wed, 2003-02-12 at 18:02, Bruno Diniz de Paula wrote:
> On Wed, 2003-02-12 at 17:42, Chris Wedgwood wrote:
> > On Wed, Feb 12, 2003 at 05:29:52PM -0500, Bruno Diniz de Paula wrote:
> >=20
> > > But I am using multiples of page size in both buffer alignment and
> > > buffer size (2nd and 3rd parameters of read). The issue is that
> > > when I try to read files with sizes that are NOT multiples of block
> > > size (and therefore also not multiples of page size), the read
> > > syscall returns 0, with no errors.
> >=20
> > What filesystem?
>=20
> ext2.
>=20
> >=20
> > Can you send an strace of this occurring?
>=20
> execve("./testopen", ["./testopen"], [/* 30 vars */]) =3D 0
> uname({sys=3D"Linux", node=3D"urca", ...}) =3D 0
> brk(0) =3D 0x80497fc
> open("/etc/ld.so.preload", O_RDONLY) =3D -1 ENOENT (No such file or
> directory)
> open("/etc/ld.so.cache", O_RDONLY) =3D 3
> fstat64(3, {st_mode=3DS_IFREG|0644, st_size=3D57677, ...}) =3D 0
> old_mmap(NULL, 57677, PROT_READ, MAP_PRIVATE, 3, 0) =3D 0x40012000
> close(3) =3D 0
> open("/lib/libc.so.6", O_RDONLY) =3D 3
> read(3, "\177ELF\1\1\1\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\3\0\3\0\1\0\0\0]Z\1\000"...,
> 1024) =3D 1024
> fstat64(3, {st_mode=3DS_IFREG|0755, st_size=3D1102984, ...}) =3D 0
> old_mmap(NULL, 1112740, PROT_READ|PROT_EXEC, MAP_PRIVATE, 3, 0) =3D
> 0x40021000
> mprotect(0x40129000, 31396, PROT_NONE) =3D 0
> old_mmap(0x40129000, 24576, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_FIXED,
> 3, 0x107000) =3D 0x40129000
> old_mmap(0x4012f000, 6820, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE,
> MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_FIXED|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) =3D 0x4012f000
> close(3) =3D 0
> old_mmap(NULL, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS,
> -1, 0) =3D 0x40131000
> munmap(0x40012000, 57677) =3D 0
> open("/var/tmp/testopen.txt", O_RDONLY|O_DIRECT) =3D 3
> brk(0) =3D 0x80497fc
> brk(0x804c7fc) =3D 0x804c7fc
> brk(0) =3D 0x804c7fc
> brk(0x804d000) =3D 0x804d000
> read(3, "", 4096) =3D 0
> fstat64(1, {st_mode=3DS_IFCHR|0600, st_rdev=3Dmakedev(136, 4), ...}) =3D =
0
> old_mmap(NULL, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS,
> -1, 0) =3D 0x40012000
> write(1, "0 bytes read from file.\n", 240 bytes read from file.
> ) =3D 24
> close(3) =3D 0
> write(1, "Message: ", 9Message: ) =3D 9
> munmap(0x40012000, 4096) =3D 0
> exit_group(0) =3D ?
>=20
> Thanks a lot,
>=20
> Bruno.
>=20
> >=20
> > > So the question remains, am I able to read just files whose size is
> > > a multiple of block size?
> >=20
> > No.
> >=20
> > You ideally should be able to read any length file with O_DIRECT.
> > Even a 1-byte file.
> >=20
> >=20
> >=20
> > --cw
--=20
Bruno Diniz de Paula <diniz@cs.rutgers.edu>
Rutgers University

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