From: Alessio Balsini <[email protected]> [ Upstream commit fdbe4eeeb1aac219b14f10c0ed31ae5d1123e9b8 ]
Enabling Direct I/O with loop devices helps reducing memory usage by avoiding double caching. 32 bit applications running on 64 bits systems are currently not able to request direct I/O because is missing from the lo_compat_ioctl. This patch fixes the compatibility issue mentioned above by exporting LOOP_SET_DIRECT_IO as additional lo_compat_ioctl() entry. The input argument for this ioctl is a single long converted to a 1-bit boolean, so compatibility is preserved. Cc: Jens Axboe <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Alessio Balsini <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <[email protected]> --- drivers/block/loop.c | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) diff --git a/drivers/block/loop.c b/drivers/block/loop.c index e1739efca37eb..8e32930f65a1d 100644 --- a/drivers/block/loop.c +++ b/drivers/block/loop.c @@ -1763,6 +1763,7 @@ static int lo_compat_ioctl(struct block_device *bdev, fmode_t mode, case LOOP_SET_FD: case LOOP_CHANGE_FD: case LOOP_SET_BLOCK_SIZE: + case LOOP_SET_DIRECT_IO: err = lo_ioctl(bdev, mode, cmd, arg); break; default: -- 2.20.1
