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authorMatthew Wilcox <matthew.r.wilcox@intel.com>2015-02-17 02:59:35 +0300
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2015-02-17 04:56:04 +0300
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dax: add dax_zero_page_range
This new function allows us to support hole-punch for DAX files by zeroing a partial page, as opposed to the dax_truncate_page() function which can only truncate to the end of the page. Reimplement dax_truncate_page() to call dax_zero_page_range(). [ross.zwisler@linux.intel.com: ported to 3.13-rc2] [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix typos in comments] Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox <matthew.r.wilcox@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Ross Zwisler <ross.zwisler@linux.intel.com> Cc: Andreas Dilger <andreas.dilger@intel.com> Cc: Boaz Harrosh <boaz@plexistor.com> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Cc: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com> Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk> Cc: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com> Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com> Cc: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org> Cc: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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@@ -62,6 +62,7 @@ Filesystem support consists of
for fault and page_mkwrite (which should probably call dax_fault() and
dax_mkwrite(), passing the appropriate get_block() callback)
- calling dax_truncate_page() instead of block_truncate_page() for DAX files
+- calling dax_zero_page_range() instead of zero_user() for DAX files
- ensuring that there is sufficient locking between reads, writes,
truncates and page faults