Christoph Hellwig 43c9835b14 block: don't allow enabling a cache on devices that don't support it
Currently the write_cache attribute allows enabling the QUEUE_FLAG_WC
flag on devices that never claimed the capability.

Fix that by adding a QUEUE_FLAG_HW_WC flag that is set by
blk_queue_write_cache and guards re-enabling the cache through sysfs.

Note that any rescan that calls blk_queue_write_cache will still
re-enable the write cache as in the current code.

Fixes: 93e9d8e836 ("block: add ability to flag write back caching on a device")
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230707094239.107968-3-hch@lst.de
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2023-07-17 08:18:18 -06:00
2022-09-28 09:02:20 +02:00
2023-07-16 15:10:37 -07:00

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