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authorJan Kara <jack@suse.cz>2016-05-11 11:58:52 +0200
committerVishal Verma <vishal.l.verma@intel.com>2016-05-17 00:44:09 -0600
commitc3d98e39d5b37320b15f227686575d58f676e6ef (patch)
tree2e221bb403db75da6a40c70919f82ad492315e53 /fs/dax.c
parent069c77bc9eaee70fa9ecbd942372b1693b8cdeb0 (diff)
downloadlinux-c3d98e39d5b37320b15f227686575d58f676e6ef.tar.bz2
dax: Remove pointless writeback from dax_do_io()
dax_do_io() is calling filemap_write_and_wait() if DIO_LOCKING flags is set. Presumably this was copied over from direct IO code. However DAX inodes have no pagecache pages to write so the call is pointless. Remove it. Reviewed-by: Ross Zwisler <ross.zwisler@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Vishal Verma <vishal.l.verma@intel.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'fs/dax.c')
-rw-r--r--fs/dax.c10
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 9 deletions
diff --git a/fs/dax.c b/fs/dax.c
index 7c0036dd1570..237581441bc1 100644
--- a/fs/dax.c
+++ b/fs/dax.c
@@ -268,15 +268,8 @@ ssize_t dax_do_io(struct kiocb *iocb, struct inode *inode,
memset(&bh, 0, sizeof(bh));
bh.b_bdev = inode->i_sb->s_bdev;
- if ((flags & DIO_LOCKING) && iov_iter_rw(iter) == READ) {
- struct address_space *mapping = inode->i_mapping;
+ if ((flags & DIO_LOCKING) && iov_iter_rw(iter) == READ)
inode_lock(inode);
- retval = filemap_write_and_wait_range(mapping, pos, end - 1);
- if (retval) {
- inode_unlock(inode);
- goto out;
- }
- }
/* Protects against truncate */
if (!(flags & DIO_SKIP_DIO_COUNT))
@@ -297,7 +290,6 @@ ssize_t dax_do_io(struct kiocb *iocb, struct inode *inode,
if (!(flags & DIO_SKIP_DIO_COUNT))
inode_dio_end(inode);
- out:
return retval;
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(dax_do_io);