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tmpfs: support aio
authorHugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Thu, 24 Jul 2008 04:27:35 +0000 (21:27 -0700)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Thu, 24 Jul 2008 17:47:16 +0000 (10:47 -0700)
commitbcd78e49613c41b5bed96fa288e983876f286a59
tree0ad2591ca2e0d46923d8ec489ef7378f1a3c0d8e
parent11fa977ecde652ab324dd79c179deb52e82a8df1
tmpfs: support aio

We have a request for tmpfs to support the AIO interface: easily done, no
more than replacing the old shmem_file_read by shmem_file_aio_read,
cribbed from generic_file_aio_read.  (In 2.6.25 its write side was already
changed to use generic_file_aio_write.)

Incorporate cleanups from Andrew Morton and Harvey Harrison.

Tests out fine with LTP's ltp-aiodio.sh, given hacks (not included) to
support O_DIRECT.  tmpfs cannot honestly support O_DIRECT: its
cache-avoiding-IO nature is at odds with direct IO-avoiding-cache.

Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Tested-by: Lawrence Greenfield <leg@google.com>
Cc: Christoph Rohland <hans-christoph.rohland@sap.com>
Cc: Badari Pulavarty <pbadari@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Zach Brown <zach.brown@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
mm/shmem.c