[3.16.y-ckt stable] Patch "dm cache: only use overwrite optimisation for promotion when in writeback mode" has been added to staging queue

[Luis Henriques]

This is a note to let you know that I have just added a patch titled

    dm cache: only use overwrite optimisation for promotion when in writeback mode

to the linux-3.16.y-queue branch of the 3.16.y-ckt extended stable tree 
which can be found at:

 http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git?p=ubuntu/linux.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/linux-3.16.y-queue

This patch is scheduled to be released in version 3.16.7-ckt4.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to this tree, please 
reply to this email.

For more information about the 3.16.y-ckt tree, see
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable

Thanks.
-Luis

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>From 1be56ee682afcb9ae02c9f14c90e1052d4c97da3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Joe Thornber <ejt at redhat.com>
Date: Thu, 27 Nov 2014 12:21:08 +0000
Subject: dm cache: only use overwrite optimisation for promotion when in
 writeback mode

commit f29a3147e251d7ae20d3194ff67f109d71e501b4 upstream.

Overwrite causes the cache block and origin blocks to diverge, which
is only allowed in writeback mode.

Signed-off-by: Joe Thornber <ejt at redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer at redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques <luis.henriques at canonical.com>
---
 drivers/md/dm-cache-target.c | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/md/dm-cache-target.c b/drivers/md/dm-cache-target.c
index c892e48655c2..e5bb12810ccc 100644
--- a/drivers/md/dm-cache-target.c
+++ b/drivers/md/dm-cache-target.c
@@ -1043,7 +1043,8 @@ static void issue_copy(struct dm_cache_migration *mg)

 		avoid = is_discarded_oblock(cache, mg->new_oblock);

-		if (!avoid && bio_writes_complete_block(cache, bio)) {
+		if (writeback_mode(&cache->features) &&
+		    !avoid && bio_writes_complete_block(cache, bio)) {
 			issue_overwrite(mg, bio);
 			return;
 		}
--
2.1.4