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-rw-r--r--drivers/ide/ide-disk.c2
-rw-r--r--drivers/ide/ide.c5
-rw-r--r--include/linux/ide.h1
3 files changed, 6 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/ide/ide-disk.c b/drivers/ide/ide-disk.c
index f712e4cfd9d..7cf3eb02352 100644
--- a/drivers/ide/ide-disk.c
+++ b/drivers/ide/ide-disk.c
@@ -776,7 +776,7 @@ static void update_ordered(ide_drive_t *drive)
* not available so we don't need to recheck that.
*/
capacity = idedisk_capacity(drive);
- barrier = ide_id_has_flush_cache(id) &&
+ barrier = ide_id_has_flush_cache(id) && !drive->noflush &&
(drive->addressing == 0 || capacity <= (1ULL << 28) ||
ide_id_has_flush_cache_ext(id));
diff --git a/drivers/ide/ide.c b/drivers/ide/ide.c
index 05fbd9298db..defd4b4bd37 100644
--- a/drivers/ide/ide.c
+++ b/drivers/ide/ide.c
@@ -1539,7 +1539,7 @@ static int __init ide_setup(char *s)
const char *hd_words[] = {
"none", "noprobe", "nowerr", "cdrom", "serialize",
"autotune", "noautotune", "minus8", "swapdata", "bswap",
- "minus11", "remap", "remap63", "scsi", NULL };
+ "noflush", "remap", "remap63", "scsi", NULL };
unit = s[2] - 'a';
hw = unit / MAX_DRIVES;
unit = unit % MAX_DRIVES;
@@ -1578,6 +1578,9 @@ static int __init ide_setup(char *s)
case -10: /* "bswap" */
drive->bswap = 1;
goto done;
+ case -11: /* noflush */
+ drive->noflush = 1;
+ goto done;
case -12: /* "remap" */
drive->remap_0_to_1 = 1;
goto done;
diff --git a/include/linux/ide.h b/include/linux/ide.h
index dc7abef1096..99620451d95 100644
--- a/include/linux/ide.h
+++ b/include/linux/ide.h
@@ -571,6 +571,7 @@ typedef struct ide_drive_s {
u8 waiting_for_dma; /* dma currently in progress */
u8 unmask; /* okay to unmask other irqs */
u8 bswap; /* byte swap data */
+ u8 noflush; /* don't attempt flushes */
u8 dsc_overlap; /* DSC overlap */
u8 nice1; /* give potential excess bandwidth */