This introduces the flag FMODE_BUF_WASYNC. If devices support async
buffered writes, this flag can be set. It also modifies the check in
generic_write_checks to take async buffered writes into consideration.
Signed-off-by: Stefan Roesch <shr@fb.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Christian Brauner (Microsoft) <brauner@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Darrick J. Wong <djwong@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220623175157.1715274-8-shr@fb.com
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
if (iocb->ki_flags & IOCB_APPEND)
iocb->ki_pos = i_size_read(inode);
- if ((iocb->ki_flags & IOCB_NOWAIT) && !(iocb->ki_flags & IOCB_DIRECT))
+ if ((iocb->ki_flags & IOCB_NOWAIT) &&
+ !((iocb->ki_flags & IOCB_DIRECT) ||
+ (file->f_mode & FMODE_BUF_WASYNC)))
return -EINVAL;
return generic_write_check_limits(iocb->ki_filp, iocb->ki_pos, count);
/* File supports async buffered reads */
#define FMODE_BUF_RASYNC ((__force fmode_t)0x40000000)
+/* File supports async nowait buffered writes */
+#define FMODE_BUF_WASYNC ((__force fmode_t)0x80000000)
+
/*
* Attribute flags. These should be or-ed together to figure out what
* has been changed!