Commit ef842302 authored Apr 19, 2018 by Dave Jiang Committed by Dan Williams Apr 19, 2018

device-dax: allow MAP_SYNC to succeed



MAP_SYNC is a nop for device-dax. Allow MAP_SYNC to succeed on device-dax
to eliminate special casing between device-dax and fs-dax as to when the
flag can be specified. Device-dax users already implicitly assume that they do
not need to call fsync(), and this enables them to explicitly check for this
capability.

Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Fixes: b6fb293f ("mm: Define MAP_SYNC and VM_SYNC flags")
Signed-off-by: Dave Jiang <dave.jiang@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>

parent f22acf82

drivers/dax/device.c

+2 −0

Original line number	Diff line number	Diff line
		@@ -19,6 +19,7 @@
		#include <linux/dax.h>
		#include <linux/fs.h>
		#include <linux/mm.h>
		#include <linux/mman.h>
		#include "dax-private.h"
		#include "dax.h"

		@@ -540,6 +541,7 @@ static const struct file_operations dax_fops = {
		.release = dax_release,
		.get_unmapped_area = dax_get_unmapped_area,
		.mmap = dax_mmap,
		.mmap_supported_flags = MAP_SYNC,
		};

		static void dev_dax_release(struct device *dev)

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