[PATCH] Do not require atomic writes to be power of 2 sized and aligned on length boundary
Vitaliy Filippov
vitalifster at gmail.com
Sat Dec 20 09:38:33 PST 2025
It contradicts NVMe specification where alignment is only required when atomic
write boundary (NABSPF/NABO) is set and highly limits usage of NVMe atomic writes
Signed-off-by: Vitaliy Filippov <vitalifster at gmail.com>
---
fs/read_write.c | 6 ------
1 file changed, 6 deletions(-)
diff --git a/fs/read_write.c b/fs/read_write.c
index 833bae068770..8b901be75a9f 100644
--- a/fs/read_write.c
+++ b/fs/read_write.c
@@ -1807,12 +1807,6 @@ int generic_atomic_write_valid(struct kiocb *iocb, struct iov_iter *iter)
if (!iter_is_ubuf(iter))
return -EINVAL;
- if (!is_power_of_2(len))
- return -EINVAL;
-
- if (!IS_ALIGNED(iocb->ki_pos, len))
- return -EINVAL;
-
if (!(iocb->ki_flags & IOCB_DIRECT))
return -EOPNOTSUPP;
--
2.51.0
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