The quilt patch titled Subject: fs: add RWF_DONTCACHE iocb and FOP_DONTCACHE file_operations flag has been removed from the -mm tree. Its filename was fs-add-rwf_dontcache-iocb-and-fop_dontcache-file_operations-flag.patch This patch was dropped because it was merged into the mm-stable branch of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm ------------------------------------------------------ From: Jens Axboe <axboe@xxxxxxxxx> Subject: fs: add RWF_DONTCACHE iocb and FOP_DONTCACHE file_operations flag Date: Fri, 20 Dec 2024 08:47:45 -0700 If a file system supports uncached buffered IO, it may set FOP_DONTCACHE and enable support for RWF_DONTCACHE. If RWF_DONTCACHE is attempted without the file system supporting it, it'll get errored with -EOPNOTSUPP. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20241220154831.1086649-8-axboe@xxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: Brian Foster <bfoster@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Chris Mason <clm@xxxxxxxx> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@xxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- include/linux/fs.h | 14 +++++++++++++- include/uapi/linux/fs.h | 6 +++++- 2 files changed, 18 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) --- a/include/linux/fs.h~fs-add-rwf_dontcache-iocb-and-fop_dontcache-file_operations-flag +++ a/include/linux/fs.h @@ -322,6 +322,7 @@ struct readahead_control; #define IOCB_NOWAIT (__force int) RWF_NOWAIT #define IOCB_APPEND (__force int) RWF_APPEND #define IOCB_ATOMIC (__force int) RWF_ATOMIC +#define IOCB_DONTCACHE (__force int) RWF_DONTCACHE /* non-RWF related bits - start at 16 */ #define IOCB_EVENTFD (1 << 16) @@ -356,7 +357,8 @@ struct readahead_control; { IOCB_SYNC, "SYNC" }, \ { IOCB_NOWAIT, "NOWAIT" }, \ { IOCB_APPEND, "APPEND" }, \ - { IOCB_ATOMIC, "ATOMIC"}, \ + { IOCB_ATOMIC, "ATOMIC" }, \ + { IOCB_DONTCACHE, "DONTCACHE" }, \ { IOCB_EVENTFD, "EVENTFD"}, \ { IOCB_DIRECT, "DIRECT" }, \ { IOCB_WRITE, "WRITE" }, \ @@ -2127,6 +2129,8 @@ struct file_operations { #define FOP_UNSIGNED_OFFSET ((__force fop_flags_t)(1 << 5)) /* Supports asynchronous lock callbacks */ #define FOP_ASYNC_LOCK ((__force fop_flags_t)(1 << 6)) +/* File system supports uncached read/write buffered IO */ +#define FOP_DONTCACHE ((__force fop_flags_t)(1 << 7)) /* Wrap a directory iterator that needs exclusive inode access */ int wrap_directory_iterator(struct file *, struct dir_context *, @@ -3614,6 +3618,14 @@ static inline int kiocb_set_rw_flags(str if (!(ki->ki_filp->f_mode & FMODE_CAN_ATOMIC_WRITE)) return -EOPNOTSUPP; } + if (flags & RWF_DONTCACHE) { + /* file system must support it */ + if (!(ki->ki_filp->f_op->fop_flags & FOP_DONTCACHE)) + return -EOPNOTSUPP; + /* DAX mappings not supported */ + if (IS_DAX(ki->ki_filp->f_mapping->host)) + return -EOPNOTSUPP; + } kiocb_flags |= (__force int) (flags & RWF_SUPPORTED); if (flags & RWF_SYNC) kiocb_flags |= IOCB_DSYNC; --- a/include/uapi/linux/fs.h~fs-add-rwf_dontcache-iocb-and-fop_dontcache-file_operations-flag +++ a/include/uapi/linux/fs.h @@ -332,9 +332,13 @@ typedef int __bitwise __kernel_rwf_t; /* Atomic Write */ #define RWF_ATOMIC ((__force __kernel_rwf_t)0x00000040) +/* buffered IO that drops the cache after reading or writing data */ +#define RWF_DONTCACHE ((__force __kernel_rwf_t)0x00000080) + /* mask of flags supported by the kernel */ #define RWF_SUPPORTED (RWF_HIPRI | RWF_DSYNC | RWF_SYNC | RWF_NOWAIT |\ - RWF_APPEND | RWF_NOAPPEND | RWF_ATOMIC) + RWF_APPEND | RWF_NOAPPEND | RWF_ATOMIC |\ + RWF_DONTCACHE) #define PROCFS_IOCTL_MAGIC 'f' _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from axboe@xxxxxxxxx are