Re: [PATCH v5 3/6] libnvdimm: add dax_dev sync flag

This patch adds 'DAXDEV_SYNC' flag which is set for nd_region doing synchronous flush. This later is used to disable MAP_SYNC functionality for ext4 & xfs filesystem for devices don't support synchronous flush. Signed-off-by: Pankaj Gupta <pagupta(a)redhat.com&gt; --- drivers/dax/bus.c | 2 +- drivers/dax/super.c | 13 ++++++++++++- drivers/md/dm.c | 2 +- drivers/nvdimm/pmem.c | 3 ++- drivers/nvdimm/region_devs.c | 7 +++++++ include/linux/dax.h | 9 +++++++-- include/linux/libnvdimm.h | 1 + 7 files changed, 31 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/dax/bus.c b/drivers/dax/bus.c index 2109cfe80219..431bf7d2a7f9 100644 --- a/drivers/dax/bus.c +++ b/drivers/dax/bus.c @@ -388,7 +388,7 @@ struct dev_dax *__devm_create_dev_dax(struct dax_region *dax_region, int id, * No 'host' or dax_operations since there is no access to this * device outside of mmap of the resulting character device. */ - dax_dev = alloc_dax(dev_dax, NULL, NULL); + dax_dev = alloc_dax(dev_dax, NULL, NULL, true);