linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] dax, pmem: add support for msync

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Date:	Mon, 31 Aug 2015 13:26:40 -0600
From:	Ross Zwisler <ross.zwisler@...ux.intel.com>
To:	Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>
Cc:	Ross Zwisler <ross.zwisler@...ux.intel.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Alexander Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...l.org>,
	Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@...ux.intel.com>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>, Hugh Dickins <hughd@...gle.com>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
	"Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@...ux.intel.com>,
	linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, linux-mm@...ck.org,
	linux-nvdimm@...ts.01.org, Matthew Wilcox <willy@...ux.intel.com>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>, x86@...nel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] dax, pmem: add support for msync

On Mon, Aug 31, 2015 at 09:06:19PM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 31, 2015 at 12:59:44PM -0600, Ross Zwisler wrote:
> > For DAX msync we just need to flush the given range using
> > wb_cache_pmem(), which is now a public part of the PMEM API.
> > 
> > The inclusion of <linux/dax.h> in fs/dax.c was done to make checkpatch
> > happy.  Previously it was complaining about a bunch of undeclared
> > functions that could be made static.
> 
> Should this be abstracted by adding a ->msync method?  Maybe not
> worth to do for now, but it might be worth to keep that in mind.

Where would we add the ->msync method?  Do you mean to the PMEM API, or
somewhere else?
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