Re: [RFC PATCH 1/3] fs: define new read_iter rwf flag
From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Date: 2017-09-28 15:51:31
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On Thu, Sep 28, 2017 at 6:54 AM, Matthew Wilcox [off-list ref] wrote:
I don't like adding a bool parameter everywhere. Why not add a flag to the kiocb ki_flags? #define IOCB_RWSEM_HELD (1 << 8)
Yeah, I think that would be a nicer approach, with filesystems that
don't care being able to just ignore it entirely.
Linus