From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: Ross Zwisler <ross.zwisler@linux.intel.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
"J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@fieldses.org>,
Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>,
Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>,
Andreas Dilger <adilger.kernel@dilger.ca>,
Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>, Jan Kara <jack@suse.com>,
Jeff Layton <jlayton@poochiereds.net>,
Matthew Wilcox <willy@linux.intel.com>,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org,
linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-nvdimm@ml01.01.org, x86@kernel.org,
xfs@oss.sgi.com, Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>,
Matthew Wilcox <matthew.r.wilcox@intel.com>,
Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 3/7] mm: add find_get_entries_tag()
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 2015 14:46:11 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20151222144611.07002cfde41d035125da2fa5@linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1450502540-8744-4-git-send-email-ross.zwisler@linux.intel.com>
On Fri, 18 Dec 2015 22:22:16 -0700 Ross Zwisler <ross.zwisler@linux.intel.com> wrote:
> Add find_get_entries_tag() to the family of functions that include
> find_get_entries(), find_get_pages() and find_get_pages_tag(). This is
> needed for DAX dirty page handling because we need a list of both page
> offsets and radix tree entries ('indices' and 'entries' in this function)
> that are marked with the PAGECACHE_TAG_TOWRITE tag.
>
> ...
>
> +EXPORT_SYMBOL(find_get_entries_tag);
This is actually a pretty crappy name because it doesn't describe what
subsystem it belongs to. scheduler? scatter/gather? filesystem?
But given what we've already done, I don't see an obvious fix.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-12-22 22:46 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-12-19 5:22 [PATCH v5 0/7] DAX fsync/msync support Ross Zwisler
2015-12-19 5:22 ` [PATCH v5 1/7] pmem: add wb_cache_pmem() to the PMEM API Ross Zwisler
2015-12-22 22:44 ` Andrew Morton
2015-12-23 0:00 ` Ross Zwisler
2015-12-19 5:22 ` [PATCH v5 2/7] dax: support dirty DAX entries in radix tree Ross Zwisler
2015-12-21 17:15 ` Jan Kara
2015-12-21 17:45 ` Ross Zwisler
2015-12-22 22:46 ` Andrew Morton
2015-12-23 0:16 ` Ross Zwisler
2015-12-19 5:22 ` [PATCH v5 3/7] mm: add find_get_entries_tag() Ross Zwisler
2015-12-22 22:46 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2015-12-19 5:22 ` [PATCH v5 4/7] dax: add support for fsync/sync Ross Zwisler
2015-12-19 18:37 ` Dan Williams
2015-12-21 17:05 ` Ross Zwisler
2015-12-21 17:49 ` Dan Williams
2015-12-21 19:27 ` Dan Williams
2015-12-22 22:46 ` Andrew Morton
2015-12-22 23:51 ` Ross Zwisler
2015-12-19 5:22 ` [PATCH v5 5/7] ext2: call dax_pfn_mkwrite() for DAX fsync/msync Ross Zwisler
2015-12-21 17:32 ` Jan Kara
2015-12-19 5:22 ` [PATCH v5 6/7] ext4: " Ross Zwisler
2015-12-21 17:32 ` Jan Kara
2015-12-19 5:22 ` [PATCH v5 7/7] xfs: " Ross Zwisler
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