The read-ahead shouldn't block, so allow it to be done even if IOCB_NOWAIT is set in the kiocb. Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@xxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@xxxxxxxxx> --- mm/filemap.c | 2 -- 1 file changed, 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/mm/filemap.c b/mm/filemap.c index f0ae9a6308cb..3378d4fca883 100644 --- a/mm/filemap.c +++ b/mm/filemap.c @@ -2028,8 +2028,6 @@ ssize_t generic_file_buffered_read(struct kiocb *iocb, page = find_get_page(mapping, index); if (!page) { - if (iocb->ki_flags & IOCB_NOWAIT) - goto would_block; page_cache_sync_readahead(mapping, ra, filp, index, last_index - index); -- 2.27.0