This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
nvme-multipath: set bdi capabilities once
to the 5.4-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
The filename of the patch is:
nvme-multipath-set-bdi-capabilities-once.patch
and it can be found in the queue-5.4 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
commit c260fa891f7a213e9260b4cda7a21bda02e0f42a
Author: Keith Busch <kbusch@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu Apr 9 09:09:04 2020 -0700
nvme-multipath: set bdi capabilities once
[ Upstream commit b2ce4d90690bd29ce5b554e203cd03682dd59697 ]
The queues' backing device info capabilities don't change with each
namespace revalidation. Set it only when each path's request_queue
is initially added to a multipath queue.
Signed-off-by: Keith Busch <kbusch@xxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Sagi Grimberg <sagi@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx>
diff --git a/drivers/nvme/host/multipath.c b/drivers/nvme/host/multipath.c
index 56caddeabb5e5..c17cf8f00f536 100644
--- a/drivers/nvme/host/multipath.c
+++ b/drivers/nvme/host/multipath.c
@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@
* Copyright (c) 2017-2018 Christoph Hellwig.
*/
+#include <linux/backing-dev.h>
#include <linux/moduleparam.h>
#include <trace/events/block.h>
#include "nvme.h"
@@ -666,6 +667,13 @@ void nvme_mpath_add_disk(struct nvme_ns *ns, struct nvme_id_ns *id)
nvme_mpath_set_live(ns);
mutex_unlock(&ns->head->lock);
}
+
+ if (bdi_cap_stable_pages_required(ns->queue->backing_dev_info)) {
+ struct backing_dev_info *info =
+ ns->head->disk->queue->backing_dev_info;
+
+ info->capabilities |= BDI_CAP_STABLE_WRITES;
+ }
}
void nvme_mpath_remove_disk(struct nvme_ns_head *head)
