On Mon, Dec 12, 2016 at 05:47:04PM +0100, Jan Kara wrote: > Currently invalidate_inode_pages2_range() and invalidate_mapping_pages() > just delete all exceptional radix tree entries they find. For DAX this > is not desirable as we track cache dirtiness in these entries and when > they are evicted, we may not flush caches although it is necessary. This > can for example manifest when we write to the same block both via mmap > and via write(2) (to different offsets) and fsync(2) then does not > properly flush CPU caches when modification via write(2) was the last > one. > > Create appropriate DAX functions to handle invalidation of DAX entries > for invalidate_inode_pages2_range() and invalidate_mapping_pages() and > wire them up into the corresponding mm functions. > > Reviewed-by: Ross Zwisler <ross.zwisler@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxx> Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@xxxxxxxxxxx> -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
