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authorJan Kara <jack@suse.cz>2010-09-21 05:49:01 -0400
committerJens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>2010-09-22 03:48:47 -0400
commit371d217ee1ff8b418b8f73fb2a34990f951ec2d4 (patch)
tree74d5e95a0aa85b8a8b94621b247a78eb527ce609 /fs/char_dev.c
parent976e48f8a5b02fc33f3e5cad87fb3fcea041a49c (diff)
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 <jack@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'fs/char_dev.c')
-rw-r--r--fs/char_dev.c4
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 1 deletions
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 = {
40#endif 40#endif
41 /* permit direct mmap, for read, write or exec */ 41 /* permit direct mmap, for read, write or exec */
42 BDI_CAP_MAP_DIRECT | 42 BDI_CAP_MAP_DIRECT |
43 BDI_CAP_READ_MAP | BDI_CAP_WRITE_MAP | BDI_CAP_EXEC_MAP), 43 BDI_CAP_READ_MAP | BDI_CAP_WRITE_MAP | BDI_CAP_EXEC_MAP |
44 /* no writeback happens */
45 BDI_CAP_NO_ACCT_AND_WRITEBACK),
44}; 46};
45 47
46static struct kobj_map *cdev_map; 48static struct kobj_map *cdev_map;