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| author | Bart Van Assche <[email protected]> | 2024-02-02 12:39:24 -0800 |
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| committer | Christian Brauner <[email protected]> | 2024-02-06 14:30:48 +0100 |
| commit | ea7d898676d9e94558c46ba927db35403362389f (patch) | |
| tree | a0e8fa62b729f1ab419178ec092fa20124bd831e | |
| parent | fe3944fb245ab99570552a3bf970b00058a9ca6d (diff) | |
fs: Propagate write hints to the struct block_device inode
Write hints applied with F_SET_RW_HINT on a block device affect the
block device inode only. Propagate these hints to the inode associated
with struct block_device because that is the inode used when writing
back dirty pages.
Cc: Alexander Viro <[email protected]>
Cc: Christian Brauner <[email protected]>
Cc: Jens Axboe <[email protected]>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <[email protected]>
Cc: Jeff Layton <[email protected]>
Cc: Chuck Lever <[email protected]>
Cc: Kanchan Joshi <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Bart Van Assche <[email protected]>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <[email protected]>
| -rw-r--r-- | fs/fcntl.c | 7 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/fs/fcntl.c b/fs/fcntl.c index 00be0a710bba..8eb6d64a985b 100644 --- a/fs/fcntl.c +++ b/fs/fcntl.c @@ -317,6 +317,13 @@ static long fcntl_set_rw_hint(struct file *file, unsigned int cmd, WRITE_ONCE(inode->i_write_hint, hint); + /* + * file->f_mapping->host may differ from inode. As an example, + * blkdev_open() modifies file->f_mapping. + */ + if (file->f_mapping->host != inode) + WRITE_ONCE(file->f_mapping->host->i_write_hint, hint); + return 0; } |