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Commit fdbe4eee authored by Alessio Balsini's avatar Alessio Balsini Committed by Jens Axboe
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loop: Add LOOP_SET_DIRECT_IO to compat ioctl



Enabling Direct I/O with loop devices helps reducing memory usage by
avoiding double caching.  32 bit applications running on 64 bits systems
are currently not able to request direct I/O because is missing from the
lo_compat_ioctl.

This patch fixes the compatibility issue mentioned above by exporting
LOOP_SET_DIRECT_IO as additional lo_compat_ioctl() entry.
The input argument for this ioctl is a single long converted to a 1-bit
boolean, so compatibility is preserved.

Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAlessio Balsini <balsini@android.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarJens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
parent 79e178f4
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