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do_direct_IO: Use inode->i_blkbits to compute block count to be cleaned
The code currently uses sdio->blkbits to compute the number of blocks to be cleaned. However sdio->blkbits is derived from the logical block size of the underlying block device (Refer to the definition of do_blockdev_direct_IO()). Due to this, generic/299 test would rarely fail when executed on an ext4 filesystem with 64k as the block size and when using a virtio based disk (having 512 byte as the logical block size) inside a kvm guest. This commit fixes the bug by using inode->i_blkbits to compute the number of blocks to be cleaned. Signed-off-by: Chandan Rajendra <[email protected]> Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <[email protected]> Fixed up by Jeff Moyer to only use/evaluate inode->i_blkbits once, to avoid issues with block size changes with IO in flight. Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <[email protected]>