Re: [PATCH 13/13] ext4: Support for synchronous DAX faults

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On Thu, Aug 17, 2017 at 06:08:15PM +0200, Jan Kara wrote:
> We return IOMAP_F_NEEDDSYNC flag from ext4_iomap_begin() for a
> synchronous write fault when inode has some uncommitted metadata
> changes. In the fault handler ext4_dax_fault() we then detect this case,
> call vfs_fsync_range() to make sure all metadata is committed, and call
> dax_pfn_mkwrite() to mark PTE as writeable. Note that this will also
> dirty corresponding radix tree entry which is what we want - fsync(2)
> will still provide data integrity guarantees for applications not using
> userspace flushing. And applications using userspace flushing can avoid
> calling fsync(2) and thus avoid the performance overhead.

Why is this only wiered up for the huge_fault handler and not the
regular?
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