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Date:   Thu, 24 Aug 2017 06:38:09 -0700
From:   Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
To:     Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>
Cc:     Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>,
        linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, linux-nvdimm@...ts.01.org,
        Andy Lutomirski <luto@...nel.org>, linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-xfs@...r.kernel.org,
        Ross Zwisler <ross.zwisler@...ux.intel.com>,
        Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@...el.com>,
        Boaz Harrosh <boazh@...app.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 11/13] dax, iomap: Add support for synchronous faults

On Thu, Aug 24, 2017 at 02:34:51PM +0200, Jan Kara wrote:
> In a subtle but important way ;). The main difference is that if the extent
> has been already allocated by previous write, but the changing transaction
> is not yet committed, we will return IOMAP_F_NEEDDSYNC but not IOMAP_F_NEW.

Ok.  How about a IOMAP_F_DIRTY flag and a better explanation?

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