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authorLinus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>2016-09-23 14:57:16 +0200
committerLinus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>2016-09-23 14:57:16 +0200
commit0565f49cfe937640c2347f6d7f40ad2f4e4f088b (patch)
tree6067447df39c37946bc2de3ee004f45957bf123e /mm/readahead.c
parentccf1e9e1c0072088420aad42797986d6e74366b5 (diff)
parent9395452b4aab7bc2475ef8935b4a4fb99d778d70 (diff)
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Merge tag 'v4.8-rc6' into devel
Linux 4.8-rc6
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diff --git a/mm/readahead.c b/mm/readahead.c
index 65ec288dc057..c8a955b1297e 100644
--- a/mm/readahead.c
+++ b/mm/readahead.c
@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@
*/
#include <linux/kernel.h>
+#include <linux/dax.h>
#include <linux/gfp.h>
#include <linux/export.h>
#include <linux/blkdev.h>
@@ -544,6 +545,14 @@ do_readahead(struct address_space *mapping, struct file *filp,
if (!mapping || !mapping->a_ops)
return -EINVAL;
+ /*
+ * Readahead doesn't make sense for DAX inodes, but we don't want it
+ * to report a failure either. Instead, we just return success and
+ * don't do any work.
+ */
+ if (dax_mapping(mapping))
+ return 0;
+
return force_page_cache_readahead(mapping, filp, index, nr);
}