Dont support 'MAP_SYNC' with non-DAX files and DAX files with asynchronous dax_device. Virtio pmem provides asynchronous host page cache flush mechanism. We don't support 'MAP_SYNC' with virtio pmem and xfs. Signed-off-by: Pankaj Gupta <pagupta@xxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@xxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/xfs/xfs_file.c | 9 ++++++--- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/fs/xfs/xfs_file.c b/fs/xfs/xfs_file.c index a7ceae90110e..f17652cca5ff 100644 --- a/fs/xfs/xfs_file.c +++ b/fs/xfs/xfs_file.c @@ -1203,11 +1203,14 @@ xfs_file_mmap( struct file *filp, struct vm_area_struct *vma) { + struct dax_device *dax_dev; + + dax_dev = xfs_find_daxdev_for_inode(file_inode(filp)); /* - * We don't support synchronous mappings for non-DAX files. At least - * until someone comes with a sensible use case. + * We don't support synchronous mappings for non-DAX files and + * for DAX files if underneath dax_device is not synchronous. */ - if (!IS_DAX(file_inode(filp)) && (vma->vm_flags & VM_SYNC)) + if (!daxdev_mapping_supported(vma, dax_dev)) return -EOPNOTSUPP; file_accessed(filp); -- 2.20.1 -- dm-devel mailing list dm-devel@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/dm-devel