summaryrefslogtreecommitdiffstats
path: root/fs
diff options
context:
space:
mode:
authorChristoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>2014-02-10 10:27:11 +1100
committerDave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>2014-02-10 10:27:11 +1100
commit6039257378e4c84da06e68230b14fef955508ce6 (patch)
tree87f5681b75c36d4b6d395f92a82ffe7b1b1dde5a /fs
parent38dbfb59d1175ef458d006556061adeaa8751b72 (diff)
downloadlinux-6039257378e4c84da06e68230b14fef955508ce6.tar.bz2
direct-io: add flag to allow aio writes beyond i_size
Some filesystems can handle direct I/O writes beyond i_size safely, so allow them to opt into receiving them. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Reviewed-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'fs')
-rw-r--r--fs/direct-io.c18
1 files changed, 12 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/fs/direct-io.c b/fs/direct-io.c
index 160a5489a939..a701752dd750 100644
--- a/fs/direct-io.c
+++ b/fs/direct-io.c
@@ -1194,13 +1194,19 @@ do_blockdev_direct_IO(int rw, struct kiocb *iocb, struct inode *inode,
}
/*
- * For file extending writes updating i_size before data
- * writeouts complete can expose uninitialized blocks. So
- * even for AIO, we need to wait for i/o to complete before
- * returning in this case.
+ * For file extending writes updating i_size before data writeouts
+ * complete can expose uninitialized blocks in dumb filesystems.
+ * In that case we need to wait for I/O completion even if asked
+ * for an asynchronous write.
*/
- dio->is_async = !is_sync_kiocb(iocb) && !((rw & WRITE) &&
- (end > i_size_read(inode)));
+ if (is_sync_kiocb(iocb))
+ dio->is_async = false;
+ else if (!(dio->flags & DIO_ASYNC_EXTEND) &&
+ (rw & WRITE) && end > i_size_read(inode))
+ dio->is_async = false;
+ else
+ dio->is_async = true;
+
dio->inode = inode;
dio->rw = rw;