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authorJens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>2024-12-20 08:47:45 -0700
committerChristian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>2025-01-04 09:36:44 +0100
commitaf6505e5745b9f3a670de405b08b73573343c15c (patch)
tree9bea7c020feb8e1064ab98675976c70a3360bf0a /include/uapi/linux
parent40384c840ea1944d7c5a392e8975ed088ecf0b37 (diff)
fs: add RWF_DONTCACHE iocb and FOP_DONTCACHE file_operations flag
If a file system supports uncached buffered IO, it may set FOP_DONTCACHE and enable support for RWF_DONTCACHE. If RWF_DONTCACHE is attempted without the file system supporting it, it'll get errored with -EOPNOTSUPP. Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20241220154831.1086649-8-axboe@kernel.dk Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/uapi/linux')
-rw-r--r--include/uapi/linux/fs.h6
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/include/uapi/linux/fs.h b/include/uapi/linux/fs.h
index 753971770733..56a4f93a08f4 100644
--- a/include/uapi/linux/fs.h
+++ b/include/uapi/linux/fs.h
@@ -332,9 +332,13 @@ typedef int __bitwise __kernel_rwf_t;
/* Atomic Write */
#define RWF_ATOMIC ((__force __kernel_rwf_t)0x00000040)
+/* buffered IO that drops the cache after reading or writing data */
+#define RWF_DONTCACHE ((__force __kernel_rwf_t)0x00000080)
+
/* mask of flags supported by the kernel */
#define RWF_SUPPORTED (RWF_HIPRI | RWF_DSYNC | RWF_SYNC | RWF_NOWAIT |\
- RWF_APPEND | RWF_NOAPPEND | RWF_ATOMIC)
+ RWF_APPEND | RWF_NOAPPEND | RWF_ATOMIC |\
+ RWF_DONTCACHE)
#define PROCFS_IOCTL_MAGIC 'f'