From 371d217ee1ff8b418b8f73fb2a34990f951ec2d4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jan Kara Date: Tue, 21 Sep 2010 11:49:01 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] char: Mark /dev/zero and /dev/kmem as not capable of writeback These devices don't do any writeback but their device inodes still can get dirty so mark bdi appropriately so that bdi code does the right thing and files inodes to lists of bdi carrying the device inodes. Cc: stable@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Jan Kara Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe --- drivers/char/mem.c | 3 ++- fs/char_dev.c | 4 +++- 2 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/char/mem.c b/drivers/char/mem.c index a398ecdbd758..1f528fad3516 100644 --- a/drivers/char/mem.c +++ b/drivers/char/mem.c @@ -788,10 +788,11 @@ static const struct file_operations zero_fops = { /* * capabilities for /dev/zero * - permits private mappings, "copies" are taken of the source of zeros + * - no writeback happens */ static struct backing_dev_info zero_bdi = { .name = "char/mem", - .capabilities = BDI_CAP_MAP_COPY, + .capabilities = BDI_CAP_MAP_COPY | BDI_CAP_NO_ACCT_AND_WRITEBACK, }; static const struct file_operations full_fops = { diff --git a/fs/char_dev.c b/fs/char_dev.c index f80a4f25123c..143d393881cb 100644 --- a/fs/char_dev.c +++ b/fs/char_dev.c @@ -40,7 +40,9 @@ struct backing_dev_info directly_mappable_cdev_bdi = { #endif /* permit direct mmap, for read, write or exec */ BDI_CAP_MAP_DIRECT | - BDI_CAP_READ_MAP | BDI_CAP_WRITE_MAP | BDI_CAP_EXEC_MAP), + BDI_CAP_READ_MAP | BDI_CAP_WRITE_MAP | BDI_CAP_EXEC_MAP | + /* no writeback happens */ + BDI_CAP_NO_ACCT_AND_WRITEBACK), }; static struct kobj_map *cdev_map;