[PATCH v8 5/6] ext4: disable map_sync for async flush

Pankaj Gupta
2019-05-10T15:55:00Z

Dont support 'MAP_SYNC' with non-DAX files and DAX files
with asynchronous dax_device. Virtio pmem provides
asynchronous host page cache flush mechanism. We don't
support 'MAP_SYNC' with virtio pmem and ext4.

Signed-off-by: Pankaj Gupta <pagupta@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
---
fs/ext4/file.c | 10 ++++++----
1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/ext4/file.c b/fs/ext4/file.c
index 98ec11f69cd4..dee549339e13 100644
--- a/fs/ext4/file.c
+++ b/fs/ext4/file.c
@@ -360,15 +360,17 @@ static const struct vm_operations_struct ext4_file_vm_ops = {
static int ext4_file_mmap(struct file *file, struct vm_area_struct *vma)
{
struct inode *inode = file->f_mapping->host;
+ struct ext4_sb_info *sbi = EXT4_SB(inode->i_sb);
+ struct dax_device *dax_dev = sbi->s_daxdev;

- if (unlikely(ext4_forced_shutdown(EXT4_SB(inode->i_sb))))
+ if (unlikely(ext4_forced_shutdown(sbi)))
return -EIO;

/*
- * We don't support synchronous mappings for non-DAX files. At least
- * until someone comes with a sensible use case.
+ * We don't support synchronous mappings for non-DAX files and
+ * for DAX files if underneath dax_device is not synchronous.
*/
- if (!IS_DAX(file_inode(file)) && (vma->vm_flags & VM_SYNC))
+ if (!daxdev_mapping_supported(vma, dax_dev))
return -EOPNOTSUPP;

file_accessed(file);
--
2.20.1