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authorDan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>2016-01-29 05:25:31 +0100
committerDan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>2016-01-30 22:35:32 +0100
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parentblock: revert runtime dax control of the raw block device (diff)
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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>
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