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authorDan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>2016-01-28 20:25:31 -0800
committerDan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>2016-01-30 13:35:32 -0800
commitd1a5f2b4d8a125943dcb6b032fc7eaefc2c78296 (patch)
treeafdd4251d10cbcf34b00bd4f33adb27996881cc6 /fs
parent9f4736fe7ca804aa79b5916221bb13dfc6221a0f (diff)
downloadlinux-d1a5f2b4d8a125943dcb6b032fc7eaefc2c78296.tar.bz2
block: use DAX for partition table reads
Avoid populating pagecache when the block device is in DAX mode. Otherwise these page cache entries collide with the fsync/msync implementation and break data durability guarantees. Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.com> Cc: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Cc: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Reported-by: Ross Zwisler <ross.zwisler@linux.intel.com> Tested-by: Ross Zwisler <ross.zwisler@linux.intel.com> Reviewed-by: Matthew Wilcox <willy@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'fs')
-rw-r--r--fs/dax.c20
1 files changed, 20 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/fs/dax.c b/fs/dax.c
index 4fd6b0c5c6b5..e0e9358baf35 100644
--- a/fs/dax.c
+++ b/fs/dax.c
@@ -58,6 +58,26 @@ static void dax_unmap_atomic(struct block_device *bdev,
blk_queue_exit(bdev->bd_queue);
}
+struct page *read_dax_sector(struct block_device *bdev, sector_t n)
+{
+ struct page *page = alloc_pages(GFP_KERNEL, 0);
+ struct blk_dax_ctl dax = {
+ .size = PAGE_SIZE,
+ .sector = n & ~((((int) PAGE_SIZE) / 512) - 1),
+ };
+ long rc;
+
+ if (!page)
+ return ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM);
+
+ rc = dax_map_atomic(bdev, &dax);
+ if (rc < 0)
+ return ERR_PTR(rc);
+ memcpy_from_pmem(page_address(page), dax.addr, PAGE_SIZE);
+ dax_unmap_atomic(bdev, &dax);
+ return page;
+}
+
/*
* dax_clear_blocks() is called from within transaction context from XFS,
* and hence this means the stack from this point must follow GFP_NOFS