Re: [PATCH v7 05/14] ext4, dax: introduce ext4_dax_aops

From: Dan Williams
Date: Thu Mar 29 2018 - 18:48:06 EST


On Thu, Mar 29, 2018 at 11:09 AM, Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx> wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 29, 2018 at 05:40:35PM +0200, Jan Kara wrote:
>> So ext4_direct_IO() for IS_DAX() files will just bail out. So could you
>> just provide ext4_dax_direct_IO() which will bail out and use it here? With
>> a similar comment as in xfs_vm_direct_IO() that open still needs this
>> method set... Thanks!
>
> In fact a common noop_direct_IO might make sense.

Ok, I introduced noop_direct_IO() in "fs, dax: prepare for
dax-specific address_space_operations", and cleaned up xfs, ext4, and
ext2 accordingly. Let me know if you want to see a resend of the
series with those changes. Otherwise this will appear in -next
shortly.