Re: [PATCH] iomap: don't make REQ_POLLED imply REQ_NOWAIT

[Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>]

On Mon, 18 May 2026 08:29:13 +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> As described in commit 2bc057692599 ("block: don't make REQ_POLLED imply
> REQ_NOWAIT"), which fixed the same issue for the block device node, there
> are valid cases to poll for I/O completion without REQ_NOWAIT.
> 
> Additionally, sing REQ_NOWAIT for file system writes is currently not
> supported as file systems writes are not idempotent and would need a
> retry of just the bio and not the entire operation to be fully supported.
> 
> [...]

Applied to the vfs-7.2.iomap branch of the vfs/vfs.git tree.
Patches in the vfs-7.2.iomap branch should appear in linux-next soon.

Please report any outstanding bugs that were missed during review in a
new review to the original patch series allowing us to drop it.

It's encouraged to provide Acked-bys and Reviewed-bys even though the
patch has now been applied. If possible patch trailers will be updated.

Note that commit hashes shown below are subject to change due to rebase,
trailer updates or similar. If in doubt, please check the listed branch.

tree:   https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs.git
branch: vfs-7.2.iomap

[1/1] iomap: don't make REQ_POLLED imply REQ_NOWAIT
      https://git.kernel.org/vfs/vfs/c/47f28b493daf