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| author | Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk> | 2018-08-17 15:45:36 -0700 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2018-08-17 16:20:29 -0700 |
| commit | 74c8164e1cdb1eb22f1d49d54e515e81821a8ad0 (patch) | |
| tree | f1fbddb5d202d0eacb79859118f77e0f18491566 /ipc/util.c | |
| parent | 357c1206520da7a40e383fe329ce379bda722cd9 (diff) | |
mpage: mpage_readpages() should submit IO as read-ahead
a_ops->readpages() is only ever used for read-ahead, yet we don't flag
the IO being submitted as such. Fix that up. Any file system that uses
mpage_readpages() as its ->readpages() implementation will now get this
right.
Since we're passing in whether the IO is read-ahead or not, we don't
need to pass in the 'gfp' separately, as it is dependent on the IO being
read-ahead. Kill off that member.
Add some documentation notes on ->readpages() being purely for
read-ahead.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180621010725.17813-3-axboe@kernel.dk
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Reviewed-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Chris Mason <clm@fb.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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