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| author | Matthew Wilcox <willy@linux.intel.com> | 2015-09-08 23:58:57 +0200 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2015-09-09 00:35:28 +0200 |
| commit | 844f35db1088dd1a9de37b53d4d823626232bd19 (patch) | |
| tree | 69eed4135e8653b5304e211ee8734ee73639b28e /Documentation/filesystems | |
| parent | mm: add vmf_insert_pfn_pmd() (diff) | |
| download | linux-844f35db1088dd1a9de37b53d4d823626232bd19.tar.xz linux-844f35db1088dd1a9de37b53d4d823626232bd19.zip | |
dax: add huge page fault support
This is the support code for DAX-enabled filesystems to allow them to
provide huge pages in response to faults.
Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox <willy@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Hillf Danton <dhillf@gmail.com>
Cc: "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/filesystems')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/filesystems/dax.txt | 7 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/dax.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/dax.txt index 7af2851d667c..7bde64014a89 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/dax.txt +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/dax.txt @@ -60,9 +60,10 @@ Filesystem support consists of - implementing the direct_IO address space operation, and calling dax_do_io() instead of blockdev_direct_IO() if S_DAX is set - implementing an mmap file operation for DAX files which sets the - VM_MIXEDMAP flag on the VMA, and setting the vm_ops to include handlers - for fault and page_mkwrite (which should probably call dax_fault() and - dax_mkwrite(), passing the appropriate get_block() callback) + VM_MIXEDMAP and VM_HUGEPAGE flags on the VMA, and setting the vm_ops to + include handlers for fault, pmd_fault and page_mkwrite (which should + probably call dax_fault(), dax_pmd_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, |