Thread (25 messages) 25 messages, 5 authors, 2016-05-08

Re: [PATCH v4 5/7] fs: prioritize and separate direct_io from dax_io

From: "hch@infradead.org" <hch@infradead.org>
Date: 2016-05-08 09:01:15
Also in: linux-ext4, linux-fsdevel, linux-mm, linux-xfs, lkml

On Thu, May 05, 2016 at 09:45:07PM +0000, Verma, Vishal L wrote:
I'm not sure I completely understand how this will work? Can you explain
a bit? Would we have to export rw_bytes up to layers above the pmem
driver? Where does get_user_pages come in?
A DAX filesystem can directly use the nvdimm layer the same way btt
doe,s what's the problem?

Re get_user_pages my idea was to simply use that to lock down the user
pages so that we can call rw_bytes on it.  How else would you do it?  Do
a kmalloc, copy_from_user and then another memcpy?
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