[PATCH] ext4: flag as supporting buffered async reads

From: Jens Axboe
Date: Mon Aug 03 2020 - 19:02:17 EST


ext4 uses generic_file_read_iter(), which already supports this.

Cc: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@xxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@xxxxxxxxx>

---

Resending this one, as I've been carrying it privately since May. The
necessary bits are now upstream (and XFS/btrfs equiv changes as well),
please consider this one for 5.9. Thanks!

diff --git a/fs/ext4/file.c b/fs/ext4/file.c
index 2a01e31a032c..1e827410e9e1 100644
--- a/fs/ext4/file.c
+++ b/fs/ext4/file.c
@@ -839,7 +839,7 @@ static int ext4_file_open(struct inode * inode, struct file * filp)
return ret;
}

- filp->f_mode |= FMODE_NOWAIT;
+ filp->f_mode |= FMODE_NOWAIT | FMODE_BUF_RASYNC;
return dquot_file_open(inode, filp);
}

--
Jens Axboe