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authorDavid Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>2010-03-26 14:55:59 +0000
committerDavid Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>2010-03-26 14:55:59 +0000
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Merge branch 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6
Conflicts: drivers/mtd/nand/sh_flctl.c Maxim's patch to initialise sysfs attributes depends on the patch which actually adds sysfs_attr_init().
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diff --git a/fs/ext4/ext4_jbd2.h b/fs/ext4/ext4_jbd2.h
index 05eca817d704..b79ad5126468 100644
--- a/fs/ext4/ext4_jbd2.h
+++ b/fs/ext4/ext4_jbd2.h
@@ -304,4 +304,28 @@ static inline int ext4_should_writeback_data(struct inode *inode)
return 0;
}
+/*
+ * This function controls whether or not we should try to go down the
+ * dioread_nolock code paths, which makes it safe to avoid taking
+ * i_mutex for direct I/O reads. This only works for extent-based
+ * files, and it doesn't work for nobh or if data journaling is
+ * enabled, since the dioread_nolock code uses b_private to pass
+ * information back to the I/O completion handler, and this conflicts
+ * with the jbd's use of b_private.
+ */
+static inline int ext4_should_dioread_nolock(struct inode *inode)
+{
+ if (!test_opt(inode->i_sb, DIOREAD_NOLOCK))
+ return 0;
+ if (test_opt(inode->i_sb, NOBH))
+ return 0;
+ if (!S_ISREG(inode->i_mode))
+ return 0;
+ if (!(EXT4_I(inode)->i_flags & EXT4_EXTENTS_FL))
+ return 0;
+ if (ext4_should_journal_data(inode))
+ return 0;
+ return 1;
+}
+
#endif /* _EXT4_JBD2_H */