From 93ef8541d5c3ad1a73057ff358a49d0ee7146d6f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com> Date: Mon, 5 Mar 2012 10:19:52 -0500 Subject: [PATCH] ext4: clean up the flags passed to __blockdev_direct_IO For extent-based files, you can perform DIO to holes, as mentioned in the comments in ext4_ext_direct_IO. However, that function passes DIO_SKIP_HOLES to __blockdev_direct_IO, which is *really* confusing to the uninitiated reader. The key, here, is that the get_block function passed in, ext4_get_block_write, completely ignores the create flag that is passed to it (the create flag is passed in from the direct I/O code, which uses the DIO_SKIP_HOLES flag to determine whether or not it should be cleared). This is a long-winded way of saying that the DIO_SKIP_HOLES flag is ultimately ignored. So let's remove it. Signed-off-by: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu> --- fs/ext4/inode.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/fs/ext4/inode.c b/fs/ext4/inode.c index 38dc5f3e9dd37..5f8081c380325 100644 --- a/fs/ext4/inode.c +++ b/fs/ext4/inode.c @@ -2941,7 +2941,7 @@ static ssize_t ext4_ext_direct_IO(int rw, struct kiocb *iocb, ext4_get_block_write, ext4_end_io_dio, NULL, - DIO_LOCKING | DIO_SKIP_HOLES); + DIO_LOCKING); if (iocb->private) EXT4_I(inode)->cur_aio_dio = NULL; /* -- GitLab