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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH] ext4: Don't release mutex for DAX write
Date: Tue, 3 May 2016 01:43:43 -0700
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As explained in another thread I really think we need to get DAX
to stop pretending to be direct I/O, which should also take care
of the locking.  The same issue also exists for ext2 and XFS so it
needs to be solved at a higher level.