linux-ext4 - [PATCH v5 5/6] ext4: disable map

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Message-Id: <20190410040826.24371-6-pagupta@redhat.com>
Date:   Wed, 10 Apr 2019 09:38:25 +0530
From:   Pankaj Gupta <pagupta@...hat.com>
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Subject: [PATCH v5 5/6] ext4: disable map_sync for async flush

Dont support 'MAP_SYNC' with non-DAX files and DAX files
with asynchronous dax_device. Virtio pmem provides 
asynchronous host page cache flush mechanism. We don't
support 'MAP_SYNC' with virtio pmem and ext4.

Signed-off-by: Pankaj Gupta <pagupta@...hat.com>
---
 fs/ext4/file.c | 11 ++++++-----
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/ext4/file.c b/fs/ext4/file.c
index 69d65d49837b..4b2ccaf1932e 100644
--- a/fs/ext4/file.c
+++ b/fs/ext4/file.c
@@ -360,15 +360,16 @@ static const struct vm_operations_struct ext4_file_vm_ops = {
 static int ext4_file_mmap(struct file *file, struct vm_area_struct *vma)
 {
 	struct inode *inode = file->f_mapping->host;
+	struct ext4_sb_info *sbi = EXT4_SB(inode->i_sb);
+	struct dax_device *dax_dev = sbi->s_daxdev;
 
-	if (unlikely(ext4_forced_shutdown(EXT4_SB(inode->i_sb))))
+	if (unlikely(ext4_forced_shutdown(sbi)))
 		return -EIO;
 
-	/*
-	 * We don't support synchronous mappings for non-DAX files. At least
-	 * until someone comes with a sensible use case.
+	/* We don't support synchronous mappings for non-DAX files and
+	 * for DAX files if underneath dax_device is not synchronous.
 	 */
-	if (!IS_DAX(file_inode(file)) && (vma->vm_flags & VM_SYNC))
+	if (!daxdev_mapping_supported(vma, dax_dev))
 		return -EOPNOTSUPP;
 
 	file_accessed(file);
-- 
2.20.1