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loop: properly observe rotational flag of underlying device

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The loop driver always declares the rotational flag of its device as
rotational, even when the device of the mapped file is nonrotational,
as is the case with SSDs or on tmpfs. This can confuse filesystem tools
which are SSD-aware; in my case I frequently forget to tell mkfs.btrfs
that my loop device on tmpfs is nonrotational, and that I really don't
need any automatic metadata redundancy.

The attached patch fixes this by introspecting the rotational flag of the
mapped file's underlying block device, if it exists. If the mapped file's
filesystem has no associated block device - as is the case on e.g. tmpfs -
we assume nonrotational storage. If there is a better way to identify such
non-devices I'd love to hear them.

Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Cc: linux-block@vger.kernel.org
Cc: holger@applied-asynchrony.com
Signed-off-by: Holger Hoffstätte <holger.hoffstaette@googlemail.com>
Signed-off-by: Gwendal Grignou <gwendal@chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Gordon <bmgordon@chromium.org>
Reviewed-by: Guenter Roeck <groeck@chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
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Holger Hoffstätte 2019-02-12 15:54:24 -07:00 committed by Jens Axboe
parent 4438cf50e7
commit 56a85fd837
1 changed files with 19 additions and 0 deletions
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drivers/block/loop.c
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@ -900,6 +900,24 @@ static int loop_prepare_queue(struct loop_device *lo)
return 0;
}
static void loop_update_rotational(struct loop_device *lo)
{
struct file *file = lo->lo_backing_file;
struct inode *file_inode = file->f_mapping->host;
struct block_device *file_bdev = file_inode->i_sb->s_bdev;
struct request_queue *q = lo->lo_queue;
bool nonrot = true;
/* not all filesystems (e.g. tmpfs) have a sb->s_bdev */
if (file_bdev)
nonrot = blk_queue_nonrot(bdev_get_queue(file_bdev));
if (nonrot)
blk_queue_flag_set(QUEUE_FLAG_NONROT, q);
else
blk_queue_flag_clear(QUEUE_FLAG_NONROT, q);
}
static int loop_set_fd(struct loop_device *lo, fmode_t mode,
struct block_device *bdev, unsigned int arg)
{
@ -963,6 +981,7 @@ static int loop_set_fd(struct loop_device *lo, fmode_t mode,
if (!(lo_flags & LO_FLAGS_READ_ONLY) && file->f_op->fsync)
blk_queue_write_cache(lo->lo_queue, true, false);
loop_update_rotational(lo);
loop_update_dio(lo);
set_capacity(lo->lo_disk, size);
bd_set_size(bdev, size << 9);