From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail-lf0-f69.google.com (mail-lf0-f69.google.com [209.85.215.69]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B8D686B0266 for ; Mon, 18 Apr 2016 17:36:05 -0400 (EDT) Received: by mail-lf0-f69.google.com with SMTP id q8so124164242lfe.3 for ; Mon, 18 Apr 2016 14:36:05 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mx2.suse.de (mx2.suse.de. [195.135.220.15]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 3si776470wmk.45.2016.04.18.14.35.52 for (version=TLS1 cipher=AES128-SHA bits=128/128); Mon, 18 Apr 2016 14:35:52 -0700 (PDT) From: Jan Kara Subject: [PATCH 10/18] dax: Remove pointless writeback from dax_do_io() Date: Mon, 18 Apr 2016 23:35:33 +0200 Message-Id: <1461015341-20153-11-git-send-email-jack@suse.cz> In-Reply-To: <1461015341-20153-1-git-send-email-jack@suse.cz> References: <1461015341-20153-1-git-send-email-jack@suse.cz> Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: To: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org Cc: linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, Ross Zwisler , Dan Williams , linux-nvdimm@lists.01.org, Matthew Wilcox , Jan Kara dax_do_io() is calling filemap_write_and_wait() if DIO_LOCKING flags is set. Presumably this was copied over from direct IO code. However DAX inodes have no pagecache pages to write so the call is pointless. Remove it. Signed-off-by: Jan Kara --- fs/dax.c | 10 +--------- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 9 deletions(-) diff --git a/fs/dax.c b/fs/dax.c index 7c0036dd1570..237581441bc1 100644 --- a/fs/dax.c +++ b/fs/dax.c @@ -268,15 +268,8 @@ ssize_t dax_do_io(struct kiocb *iocb, struct inode *inode, memset(&bh, 0, sizeof(bh)); bh.b_bdev = inode->i_sb->s_bdev; - if ((flags & DIO_LOCKING) && iov_iter_rw(iter) == READ) { - struct address_space *mapping = inode->i_mapping; + if ((flags & DIO_LOCKING) && iov_iter_rw(iter) == READ) inode_lock(inode); - retval = filemap_write_and_wait_range(mapping, pos, end - 1); - if (retval) { - inode_unlock(inode); - goto out; - } - } /* Protects against truncate */ if (!(flags & DIO_SKIP_DIO_COUNT)) @@ -297,7 +290,6 @@ ssize_t dax_do_io(struct kiocb *iocb, struct inode *inode, if (!(flags & DIO_SKIP_DIO_COUNT)) inode_dio_end(inode); - out: return retval; } EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(dax_do_io); -- 2.6.6 -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: email@kvack.org