Re: [RFC PATCH 0/7] dax, ext4: Synchronous page faults

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Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxx> writes:

Hi, Jan,

Thanks for looking into this!

> There are couple of open questions with this implementation:
>
> 1) Is it worth the hassle?
> 2) Is S_SYNC good flag to use or should we use a new inode flag?
> 3) VM_FAULT_RO and especially passing of resulting 'pfn' from
>    dax_iomap_fault() through filesystem fault handler to dax_pfn_mkwrite() in
>    vmf->orig_pte is a bit of a hack. So far I'm not sure how to refactor
>    things to make this cleaner.

4) How does an application discover that it is safe to flush from
   userspace?

-Jeff



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