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authorJan Kara <jack@suse.cz>2010-09-21 11:49:01 +0200
committerJens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>2010-09-22 09:48:47 +0200
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char: Mark /dev/zero and /dev/kmem as not capable of writeback
These devices don't do any writeback but their device inodes still can get dirty so mark bdi appropriately so that bdi code does the right thing and files inodes to lists of bdi carrying the device inodes. Cc: stable@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
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1 files changed, 3 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/fs/char_dev.c b/fs/char_dev.c
index f80a4f25123c..143d393881cb 100644
--- a/fs/char_dev.c
+++ b/fs/char_dev.c
@@ -40,7 +40,9 @@ struct backing_dev_info directly_mappable_cdev_bdi = {
#endif
/* permit direct mmap, for read, write or exec */
BDI_CAP_MAP_DIRECT |
- BDI_CAP_READ_MAP | BDI_CAP_WRITE_MAP | BDI_CAP_EXEC_MAP),
+ BDI_CAP_READ_MAP | BDI_CAP_WRITE_MAP | BDI_CAP_EXEC_MAP |
+ /* no writeback happens */
+ BDI_CAP_NO_ACCT_AND_WRITEBACK),
};
static struct kobj_map *cdev_map;