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From: Ross Zwisler <ross.zwisler@linux.intel.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 7/7] pmem, dax: have direct_access use __pmem
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Date: Fri, 14 Aug 2015 10:55:18 -0600
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On Thu, 2015-08-13 at 14:20 -0700, Dan Williams wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 13, 2015 at 9:51 AM, Ross Zwisler
> <ross.zwisler@linux.intel.com> wrote:
> > Update the annotation for the kaddr pointer returned by direct_access()
> > so that it is a __pmem pointer.  This is consistent with the PMEM driver
> > and with how this direct_access() pointer is used in the DAX code.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Ross Zwisler <ross.zwisler@linux.intel.com>
> > ---
> >  Documentation/filesystems/Locking |  3 ++-
> >  arch/powerpc/sysdev/axonram.c     |  7 ++++---
> >  drivers/block/brd.c               |  4 ++--
> >  drivers/nvdimm/pmem.c             |  4 ++--
> >  drivers/s390/block/dcssblk.c      | 10 +++++----
> >  fs/block_dev.c                    |  2 +-
> >  fs/dax.c                          | 44 +++++++++++++++++++++------------------
> >  include/linux/blkdev.h            |  8 +++----
> >  8 files changed, 45 insertions(+), 37 deletions(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/Locking b/Documentation/filesystems/Locking
> > index 6a34a0f..06d4434 100644
> > --- a/Documentation/filesystems/Locking
> > +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/Locking
> > @@ -397,7 +397,8 @@ prototypes:
> >         int (*release) (struct gendisk *, fmode_t);
> >         int (*ioctl) (struct block_device *, fmode_t, unsigned, unsigned long);
> >         int (*compat_ioctl) (struct block_device *, fmode_t, unsigned, unsigned long);
> > -       int (*direct_access) (struct block_device *, sector_t, void **, unsigned long *);
> > +       int (*direct_access) (struct block_device *, sector_t, void __pmem **,
> > +                               unsigned long *);
> 
> So this collides with the __pfn_t work.  I think the we have a
> reasonable chance of getting that in to 4.3, so I'd wait to see if we
> hit any major roadblocks with that set [1] before merging these.
> 
> [1]: https://lists.01.org/pipermail/linux-nvdimm/2015-August/001803.html

Fair enough.  Yea, I hadn't merged with that series yet a) because I didn't
know when its review cycle would settle down and b) because that series hadn't
pulled in changes from Matthew for PMD support, which I was originally using
as a baseline.

I'll merge with your code for v3.