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-rw-r--r--mm/readahead.c9
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/mm/readahead.c b/mm/readahead.c
index 65ec288dc057..c8a955b1297e 100644
--- a/mm/readahead.c
+++ b/mm/readahead.c
@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@
*/
#include <linux/kernel.h>
+#include <linux/dax.h>
#include <linux/gfp.h>
#include <linux/export.h>
#include <linux/blkdev.h>
@@ -544,6 +545,14 @@ do_readahead(struct address_space *mapping, struct file *filp,
if (!mapping || !mapping->a_ops)
return -EINVAL;
+ /*
+ * Readahead doesn't make sense for DAX inodes, but we don't want it
+ * to report a failure either. Instead, we just return success and
+ * don't do any work.
+ */
+ if (dax_mapping(mapping))
+ return 0;
+
return force_page_cache_readahead(mapping, filp, index, nr);
}