- Until now, dax has been disabled if media errors were found on
any device. This enables the use of DAX in the presence of these
errors by making all sector-aligned zeroing go through the driver.
- The driver (already) has the ability to clear errors on writes that
are sent through the block layer using 'DSMs' defined in ACPI 6.1.
Other misc changes:
- When mounting DAX filesystems, check to make sure the partition
is page aligned. This is a requirement for DAX, and previously, we
allowed such unaligned mounts to succeed, but subsequent reads/writes
would fail.
- Misc/cleanup fixes from Jan that remove unused code from DAX related to
zeroing, writeback, and some size checks.
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Merge tag 'dax-misc-for-4.7' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/nvdimm/nvdimm
Pull misc DAX updates from Vishal Verma:
"DAX error handling for 4.7
- Until now, dax has been disabled if media errors were found on any
device. This enables the use of DAX in the presence of these
errors by making all sector-aligned zeroing go through the driver.
- The driver (already) has the ability to clear errors on writes that
are sent through the block layer using 'DSMs' defined in ACPI 6.1.
Other misc changes:
- When mounting DAX filesystems, check to make sure the partition is
page aligned. This is a requirement for DAX, and previously, we
allowed such unaligned mounts to succeed, but subsequent
reads/writes would fail.
- Misc/cleanup fixes from Jan that remove unused code from DAX
related to zeroing, writeback, and some size checks"
* tag 'dax-misc-for-4.7' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/nvdimm/nvdimm:
dax: fix a comment in dax_zero_page_range and dax_truncate_page
dax: for truncate/hole-punch, do zeroing through the driver if possible
dax: export a low-level __dax_zero_page_range helper
dax: use sb_issue_zerout instead of calling dax_clear_sectors
dax: enable dax in the presence of known media errors (badblocks)
dax: fallback from pmd to pte on error
block: Update blkdev_dax_capable() for consistency
xfs: Add alignment check for DAX mount
ext2: Add alignment check for DAX mount
ext4: Add alignment check for DAX mount
block: Add bdev_dax_supported() for dax mount checks
block: Add vfs_msg() interface
dax: Remove redundant inode size checks
dax: Remove pointless writeback from dax_do_io()
dax: Remove zeroing from dax_io()
dax: Remove dead zeroing code from fault handlers
ext2: Avoid DAX zeroing to corrupt data
ext2: Fix block zeroing in ext2_get_blocks() for DAX
dax: Remove complete_unwritten argument
DAX: move RADIX_DAX_ definitions to dax.c
Linus Torvalds
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