3 Commits

Author	SHA1	Message	Date
Ming Lei	ab1cb278bc	block: loop: introduce ioctl command of LOOP_SET_DIRECT_IO ... If loop block is mounted via 'mount -o loop', it isn't easy to pass file descriptor opened as O_DIRECT, so this patch introduces a new command to support direct IO for this case. Cc: linux-api@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Ming Lei <ming.lei@canonical.com> Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>	2015-09-23 11:01:16 -06:00
Ming Lei	2e5ab5f379	block: loop: prepare for supporing direct IO ... This patches provides one interface for enabling direct IO from user space: - userspace(such as losetup) can pass 'file' which is opened/fcntl as O_DIRECT Also __loop_update_dio() is introduced to check if direct I/O can be used on current loop setting. The last big change is to introduce LO_FLAGS_DIRECT_IO flag for userspace to know if direct IO is used to access backing file. Cc: linux-api@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Ming Lei <ming.lei@canonical.com> Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>	2015-09-23 11:01:16 -06:00
David Howells	607ca46e97	UAPI: (Scripted) Disintegrate include/linux ... Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Acked-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com> Acked-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Acked-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>	2012-10-13 10:46:48 +01:00