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dax: Allow tuning whether dax_insert_mapping_entry() dirties entry
authorJan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Wed, 1 Nov 2017 15:36:40 +0000 (16:36 +0100)
committerDan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Fri, 3 Nov 2017 13:26:25 +0000 (06:26 -0700)
commitf5b7b74876cff5664ea8b2ef7f002c54cd6e7c90
tree7b1cefea7fb1588c6325a297d1f9f36b0e9f547e
parent9a0dd42251439de635088b97533109a935864a84
dax: Allow tuning whether dax_insert_mapping_entry() dirties entry

Currently we dirty radix tree entry whenever dax_insert_mapping_entry()
gets called for a write fault. With synchronous page faults we would
like to insert clean radix tree entry and dirty it only once we call
fdatasync() and update page tables to save some unnecessary cache
flushing. Add 'dirty' argument to dax_insert_mapping_entry() for that.

Reviewed-by: Ross Zwisler <ross.zwisler@linux.intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
fs/dax.c