Re: [PATCH 4/6] xfs: Set BH_New for allocated DAX blocks in __xfs_get_blocks()

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On Tue, Sep 27, 2016 at 07:17:07PM +0200, Jan Kara wrote:
> On Tue 27-09-16 10:01:18, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> > On Tue, Sep 27, 2016 at 06:43:33PM +0200, Jan Kara wrote:
> > > So far we did not set BH_New for newly allocated blocks for DAX inodes
> > > in __xfs_get_blocks() because we wanted to avoid zeroing done in generic
> > > DAX code which was racy. Now the zeroing is gone so we can remove this
> > > workaround and return BH_New for newly allocated blocks. DAX will use this
> > > information to properly update mappings of the file.
> > 
> > __xfs_get_blocks isn't used by the DAX code any more.
> > xfs_file_iomap_begin should already be doing the right thing for now.
> 
> OK, the changelog is stale but I actually took care to integrate this with
> your iomap patches and for the new invalidation code in iomap_dax_actor()
> to work we need this additional information...

So this applies to the iomap-4.9-dax branch in the XFS tree?

https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/dgc/linux-xfs.git/log/?h=iomap-4.9-dax

i.e. Do I need to merge the patchset with that branch?

Cheers,

Dave.
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