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File systems might have boundaries over which merges aren't possible. In fact these are very common, although most of the time some kind of header at the beginning of this region (e.g. XFS alloation groups, ext4 block groups) automatically create a merge barrier. But if that is not present, say for a device purely used for data we need to manually communicate that to iomap. Add a IOMAP_F_BOUNDARY flag to never merge I/O into a previous mapping. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Reviewed-by: Darrick J. Wong <djwong@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong <djwong@kernel.org>
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the reStructuredText markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.