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>
diff --git a/drivers/char/mem.c b/drivers/char/mem.c
index a398ecd..1f528fa 100644
--- a/drivers/char/mem.c
+++ b/drivers/char/mem.c
@@ -788,10 +788,11 @@
/*
* capabilities for /dev/zero
* - permits private mappings, "copies" are taken of the source of zeros
+ * - no writeback happens
*/
static struct backing_dev_info zero_bdi = {
.name = "char/mem",
- .capabilities = BDI_CAP_MAP_COPY,
+ .capabilities = BDI_CAP_MAP_COPY | BDI_CAP_NO_ACCT_AND_WRITEBACK,
};
static const struct file_operations full_fops = {
diff --git a/fs/char_dev.c b/fs/char_dev.c
index f80a4f2..143d393 100644
--- a/fs/char_dev.c
+++ b/fs/char_dev.c
@@ -40,7 +40,9 @@
#endif
/* permit direct mmap, for read, write or exec */
BDI_CAP_MAP_DIRECT |
- BDI_CAP_READ_MAP | BDI_CAP_WRITE_MAP | BDI_CAP_EXEC_MAP),
+ BDI_CAP_READ_MAP | BDI_CAP_WRITE_MAP | BDI_CAP_EXEC_MAP |
+ /* no writeback happens */
+ BDI_CAP_NO_ACCT_AND_WRITEBACK),
};
static struct kobj_map *cdev_map;