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authorMing Lei <ming.lei@canonical.com>2015-08-17 10:31:49 +0800
committerJens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>2015-09-23 11:01:16 -0600
commit2e5ab5f379f96a6207c45be40c357ebb1beb8ef3 (patch)
tree462de913cce458163752b33624537f479122b51b /drivers/block/loop.h
parente03a3d7a94e2485b6e2fa3fb630b9b3a30b65718 (diff)
downloadlinux-2e5ab5f379f96a6207c45be40c357ebb1beb8ef3.tar.bz2
block: loop: prepare for supporing direct IO
This patches provides one interface for enabling direct IO from user space: - userspace(such as losetup) can pass 'file' which is opened/fcntl as O_DIRECT Also __loop_update_dio() is introduced to check if direct I/O can be used on current loop setting. The last big change is to introduce LO_FLAGS_DIRECT_IO flag for userspace to know if direct IO is used to access backing file. Cc: linux-api@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Ming Lei <ming.lei@canonical.com> Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
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diff --git a/drivers/block/loop.h b/drivers/block/loop.h
index b6c7d21a453a..d1de2217c09a 100644
--- a/drivers/block/loop.h
+++ b/drivers/block/loop.h
@@ -58,6 +58,7 @@ struct loop_device {
struct mutex lo_ctl_mutex;
struct kthread_worker worker;
struct task_struct *worker_task;
+ bool use_dio;
struct request_queue *lo_queue;
struct blk_mq_tag_set tag_set;