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authorDan Williams2016-01-16 01:57:01 +0100
committerLinus Torvalds2016-01-16 02:56:32 +0100
commitc046c321cb4a0bdac9fb922db3859893ca556d27 (patch)
tree0765c98adba09720480e9639ec4c51eab442c95d /fs/dax.c
parentdax: provide diagnostics for pmd mapping failures (diff)
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dax: re-enable dax pmd mappings
Now that the get_user_pages() path knows how to handle dax-pmd mappings, remove the protections that disabled dax-pmd support. Tests available from github.com/pmem/ndctl: make TESTS="lib/test-dax.sh lib/test-mmap.sh" check Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'fs/dax.c')
-rw-r--r--fs/dax.c8
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/fs/dax.c b/fs/dax.c
index e1f251dc9654..7af879759064 100644
--- a/fs/dax.c
+++ b/fs/dax.c
@@ -592,7 +592,7 @@ int __dax_pmd_fault(struct vm_area_struct *vma, unsigned long address,
sector_t block;
int result = 0;
- /* dax pmd mappings are broken wrt gup and fork */
+ /* dax pmd mappings require pfn_t_devmap() */
if (!IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_FS_DAX_PMD))
return VM_FAULT_FALLBACK;
@@ -717,11 +717,7 @@ int __dax_pmd_fault(struct vm_area_struct *vma, unsigned long address,
goto fallback;
}
- /*
- * TODO: teach vmf_insert_pfn_pmd() to support
- * 'pte_special' for pmds
- */
- if (pfn_t_has_page(dax.pfn)) {
+ if (!pfn_t_devmap(dax.pfn)) {
dax_unmap_atomic(bdev, &dax);
dax_pmd_dbg(&bh, address, "pfn not in memmap");
goto fallback;