[PATCH v16 01/11] fs: add a write stream field to the kiocb

Kanchan Joshi joshi.k at samsung.com
Tue May 6 05:17:22 PDT 2025


From: Christoph Hellwig <hch at lst.de>

Prepare for io_uring passthrough of write streams. The write stream
field in the kiocb structure fits into an existing 2-byte hole, so its
size is not changed.

Reviewed-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare at suse.de>
Reviewed-by: Nitesh Shetty <nj.shetty at samsung.com>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch at lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Keith Busch <kbusch at kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Kanchan Joshi <joshi.k at samsung.com>
---
 include/linux/fs.h | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/include/linux/fs.h b/include/linux/fs.h
index 016b0fe1536e..d5988867fe31 100644
--- a/include/linux/fs.h
+++ b/include/linux/fs.h
@@ -408,6 +408,7 @@ struct kiocb {
 	void			*private;
 	int			ki_flags;
 	u16			ki_ioprio; /* See linux/ioprio.h */
+	u8			ki_write_stream;
 	union {
 		/*
 		 * Only used for async buffered reads, where it denotes the
-- 
2.25.1




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