From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from bombadil.infradead.org ([198.137.202.9]:51218 "EHLO bombadil.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S935873AbcI0RBT (ORCPT ); Tue, 27 Sep 2016 13:01:19 -0400 Date: Tue, 27 Sep 2016 10:01:18 -0700 From: Christoph Hellwig To: Jan Kara Cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-nvdimm@ml01.01.org, Dan Williams , Ross Zwisler Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/6] xfs: Set BH_New for allocated DAX blocks in __xfs_get_blocks() Message-ID: <20160927170118.GA15908@infradead.org> References: <1474994615-29553-1-git-send-email-jack@suse.cz> <1474994615-29553-5-git-send-email-jack@suse.cz> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1474994615-29553-5-git-send-email-jack@suse.cz> Sender: linux-fsdevel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Tue, Sep 27, 2016 at 06:43:33PM +0200, Jan Kara wrote: > So far we did not set BH_New for newly allocated blocks for DAX inodes > in __xfs_get_blocks() because we wanted to avoid zeroing done in generic > DAX code which was racy. Now the zeroing is gone so we can remove this > workaround and return BH_New for newly allocated blocks. DAX will use this > information to properly update mappings of the file. __xfs_get_blocks isn't used by the DAX code any more. xfs_file_iomap_begin should already be doing the right thing for now.