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authorDan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>2016-01-28 20:25:31 -0800
committerDan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>2016-01-30 13:35:32 -0800
commitd1a5f2b4d8a125943dcb6b032fc7eaefc2c78296 (patch)
treeafdd4251d10cbcf34b00bd4f33adb27996881cc6 /include/linux
parent9f4736fe7ca804aa79b5916221bb13dfc6221a0f (diff)
block: use DAX for partition table reads
Avoid populating pagecache when the block device is in DAX mode. Otherwise these page cache entries collide with the fsync/msync implementation and break data durability guarantees. Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.com> Cc: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Cc: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Reported-by: Ross Zwisler <ross.zwisler@linux.intel.com> Tested-by: Ross Zwisler <ross.zwisler@linux.intel.com> Reviewed-by: Matthew Wilcox <willy@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux')
-rw-r--r--include/linux/dax.h11
1 files changed, 11 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/dax.h b/include/linux/dax.h
index 8204c3dc3800..818e45078929 100644
--- a/include/linux/dax.h
+++ b/include/linux/dax.h
@@ -14,6 +14,17 @@ int dax_fault(struct vm_area_struct *, struct vm_fault *, get_block_t,
dax_iodone_t);
int __dax_fault(struct vm_area_struct *, struct vm_fault *, get_block_t,
dax_iodone_t);
+
+#ifdef CONFIG_FS_DAX
+struct page *read_dax_sector(struct block_device *bdev, sector_t n);
+#else
+static inline struct page *read_dax_sector(struct block_device *bdev,
+ sector_t n)
+{
+ return ERR_PTR(-ENXIO);
+}
+#endif
+
#ifdef CONFIG_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE
int dax_pmd_fault(struct vm_area_struct *, unsigned long addr, pmd_t *,
unsigned int flags, get_block_t, dax_iodone_t);