On 23.02.2018 13:45, Nikolay Borisov wrote:
> This flag was added by 6039257378e4 ("direct-io: add flag to allow aio
> writes beyond i_size") to support XFS. However, with the rework of
> XFS' DIO's path to use iomap in acdda3aae146 ("xfs: use iomap_dio_rw")
> it became redundant. So let's remove it.
>
> Signed-off-by: Nikolay Borisov
Jens,
On a second look I think you are the more appropriate person to take
these patches. SO do you have any objections to merging those via the
block tree. ( I did CC you but didn't cc linux-block).
> ---
> fs/direct-io.c | 3 +--
> include/linux/fs.h | 3 ---
> 2 files changed, 1 insertion(+), 5 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/fs/direct-io.c b/fs/direct-io.c
> index a0ca9e48e993..99a81c49bce9 100644
> --- a/fs/direct-io.c
> +++ b/fs/direct-io.c
> @@ -1252,8 +1252,7 @@ do_blockdev_direct_IO(struct kiocb *iocb, struct inode
> *inode,
>*/
> if (is_sync_kiocb(iocb))
> dio->is_async = false;
> - else if (!(dio->flags & DIO_ASYNC_EXTEND) &&
> - iov_iter_rw(iter) == WRITE && end > i_size_read(inode))
> + else if (iov_iter_rw(iter) == WRITE && end > i_size_read(inode))
> dio->is_async = false;
> else
> dio->is_async = true;
> diff --git a/include/linux/fs.h b/include/linux/fs.h
> index 2a815560fda0..260c233e7375 100644
> --- a/include/linux/fs.h
> +++ b/include/linux/fs.h
> @@ -2977,9 +2977,6 @@ enum {
> /* filesystem does not support filling holes */
> DIO_SKIP_HOLES = 0x02,
>
> - /* filesystem can handle aio writes beyond i_size */
> - DIO_ASYNC_EXTEND = 0x04,
> -
> /* inode/fs/bdev does not need truncate protection */
> DIO_SKIP_DIO_COUNT = 0x08,
> };
>
