vfs,ext2: introduce IS_DAX(inode)
Use an inode flag to tag inodes which should avoid using the page cache.
Convert ext2 to use it instead of mapping_is_xip(). Prevent I/Os to files
tagged with the DAX flag from falling back to buffered I/O.
Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox <matthew.r.wilcox@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Reviewed-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Cc: Andreas Dilger <andreas.dilger@intel.com>
Cc: Boaz Harrosh <boaz@plexistor.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Cc: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Cc: Ross Zwisler <ross.zwisler@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
diff --git a/mm/filemap.c b/mm/filemap.c
index d9f5336..1578c22 100644
--- a/mm/filemap.c
+++ b/mm/filemap.c
@@ -1723,9 +1723,11 @@
* we've already read everything we wanted to, or if
* there was a short read because we hit EOF, go ahead
* and return. Otherwise fallthrough to buffered io for
- * the rest of the read.
+ * the rest of the read. Buffered reads will not work for
+ * DAX files, so don't bother trying.
*/
- if (retval < 0 || !iov_iter_count(iter) || *ppos >= size) {
+ if (retval < 0 || !iov_iter_count(iter) || *ppos >= size ||
+ IS_DAX(inode)) {
file_accessed(file);
goto out;
}
@@ -2587,13 +2589,16 @@
loff_t endbyte;
written = generic_file_direct_write(iocb, from, pos);
- if (written < 0 || written == count)
+ /*
+ * If the write stopped short of completing, fall back to
+ * buffered writes. Some filesystems do this for writes to
+ * holes, for example. For DAX files, a buffered write will
+ * not succeed (even if it did, DAX does not handle dirty
+ * page-cache pages correctly).
+ */
+ if (written < 0 || written == count || IS_DAX(inode))
goto out;
- /*
- * direct-io write to a hole: fall through to buffered I/O
- * for completing the rest of the request.
- */
pos += written;
count -= written;