Re: [RFC PATCH 1/3] fs: define new read_iter rwf flag

[Linus Torvalds]

On Thu, Sep 28, 2017 at 6:54 AM, Matthew Wilcox <willy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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