linux-kernel - [PATCH 4/5] filesystem-dax: Do not request a pointer kaddr when not required

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Message-Id: <20180724084510.6104-5-yehs2007@zoho.com>
Date:   Tue, 24 Jul 2018 16:45:09 +0800
From:   Huaisheng Ye <yehs2007@...o.com>
To:     linux-nvdimm@...ts.01.org, dan.j.williams@...el.com
Cc:     ross.zwisler@...ux.intel.com, willy@...radead.org,
        vishal.l.verma@...el.com, dave.jiang@...el.com,
        schwidefsky@...ibm.com, heiko.carstens@...ibm.com,
        viro@...iv.linux.org.uk, martin.petersen@...cle.com,
        axboe@...nel.dk, gregkh@...uxfoundation.org,
        bart.vanassche@....com, jack@...e.cz, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-s390@...r.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org,
        chengnt@...ovo.com, Huaisheng Ye <yehs1@...ovo.com>
Subject: [PATCH 4/5] filesystem-dax: Do not request a pointer kaddr when not required

From: Huaisheng Ye <yehs1@...ovo.com>

Some functions within fs/dax don't need to get pointer kaddr from
direct_access. In support of allowing memmap initialization to run
in the background elide requests for pointer kaddr when not required.

Signed-off-by: Huaisheng Ye <yehs1@...ovo.com>
---
 fs/dax.c | 3 +--
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/dax.c b/fs/dax.c
index aaec72de..abdb9e2 100644
--- a/fs/dax.c
+++ b/fs/dax.c
@@ -870,7 +870,6 @@ static int dax_iomap_pfn(struct iomap *iomap, loff_t pos, size_t size,
 {
 	const sector_t sector = dax_iomap_sector(iomap, pos);
 	pgoff_t pgoff;
-	void *kaddr;
 	int id, rc;
 	long length;
 
@@ -879,7 +878,7 @@ static int dax_iomap_pfn(struct iomap *iomap, loff_t pos, size_t size,
 		return rc;
 	id = dax_read_lock();
 	length = dax_direct_access(iomap->dax_dev, pgoff, PHYS_PFN(size),
-				   &kaddr, pfnp);
+				   NULL, pfnp);
 	if (length < 0) {
 		rc = length;
 		goto out;
-- 
1.8.3.1