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 ext4. Signed-off-by: Pankaj Gupta <pagupta@xxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxx> --- fs/ext4/file.c | 10 ++++++---- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/fs/ext4/file.c b/fs/ext4/file.c index 98ec11f69cd4..dee549339e13 100644 --- a/fs/ext4/file.c +++ b/fs/ext4/file.c @@ -360,15 +360,17 @@ static const struct vm_operations_struct ext4_file_vm_ops = { static int ext4_file_mmap(struct file *file, struct vm_area_struct *vma) { struct inode *inode = file->f_mapping->host; + struct ext4_sb_info *sbi = EXT4_SB(inode->i_sb); + struct dax_device *dax_dev = sbi->s_daxdev; - if (unlikely(ext4_forced_shutdown(EXT4_SB(inode->i_sb)))) + if (unlikely(ext4_forced_shutdown(sbi))) return -EIO; /* - * 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(file)) && (vma->vm_flags & VM_SYNC)) + if (!daxdev_mapping_supported(vma, dax_dev)) return -EOPNOTSUPP; file_accessed(file); -- 2.20.1