Hi Al, Today's linux-next merge of the vfs tree got a conflict in fs/block_dev.c between commit b176eedb2a8b ("block_dev: add support for read_iter, write_iter") from the aio-direct tree and commit 02afc27faec9 ("direct-io: Handle O_(D)SYNC AIO") from the vfs tree. I fixed it up (see below) and can carry the fix as necessary (no action is required). -- Cheers, Stephen Rothwell sfr@canb.auug.org.au diff --cc fs/block_dev.c index 89d8ec5,1173a4e..0000000 --- a/fs/block_dev.c +++ b/fs/block_dev.c @@@ -1517,8 -1518,8 +1517,8 @@@ ssize_t blkdev_write_iter(struct kiocb BUG_ON(iocb->ki_pos != pos); blk_start_plug(&plug); - ret = __generic_file_aio_write(iocb, iov, nr_segs, &iocb->ki_pos); + ret = __generic_file_write_iter(iocb, iter, &iocb->ki_pos); - if (ret > 0 || ret == -EIOCBQUEUED) { + if (ret > 0) { ssize_t err; err = generic_write_sync(file, pos, ret);