Re: [PATCH] dax, pmem: add support for msync

[Ross Zwisler]

On Thu, Sep 03, 2015 at 09:32:02AM +0300, Boaz Harrosh wrote:
> On 09/02/2015 10:04 PM, Ross Zwisler wrote:
> > On Tue, Sep 01, 2015 at 03:18:41PM +0300, Boaz Harrosh wrote:
> <>
> >> Apps expect all these to work:
> >> 1. open mmap m-write msync ... close
> >> 2. open mmap m-write fsync ... close
> >> 3. open mmap m-write unmap ... fsync close
> >>
> >> 4. open mmap m-write sync ...
> > 
> > So basically you made close have an implicit fsync?  What about the flow that
> > looks like this:
> > 
> > 5. open mmap close m-write
> > 
> 
> What? no, close means ummap because you need a file* attached to your vma
> 
> And you miss-understood me, the vm_opts->close is the *unmap* operation not
> the file::close() operation.
> 
> I meant memory-cl_flush on unmap before the vma goes away.

Ah, got it, thanks for the clarification.
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