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| author | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2017-01-01 12:27:05 -0800 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2017-01-01 12:27:05 -0800 |
| commit | 4759d386d55fef452d692bf101167914437e848e (patch) | |
| tree | e7109c192ec589fcea2a98f9702aa3c0e4009581 /net/wireless/wext-compat.h | |
| parent | 238d1d0f79f619d75c2cc741d6770fb0986aef24 (diff) | |
| parent | 1db175428ee374489448361213e9c3b749d14900 (diff) | |
Merge branch 'libnvdimm-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/nvdimm/nvdimm
Pull DAX updates from Dan Williams:
"The completion of Jan's DAX work for 4.10.
As I mentioned in the libnvdimm-for-4.10 pull request, these are some
final fixes for the DAX dirty-cacheline-tracking invalidation work
that was merged through the -mm, ext4, and xfs trees in -rc1. These
patches were prepared prior to the merge window, but we waited for
4.10-rc1 to have a stable merge base after all the prerequisites were
merged.
Quoting Jan on the overall changes in these patches:
"So I'd like all these 6 patches to go for rc2. The first three
patches fix invalidation of exceptional DAX entries (a bug which
is there for a long time) - without these patches data loss can
occur on power failure even though user called fsync(2). The other
three patches change locking of DAX faults so that ->iomap_begin()
is called in a more relaxed locking context and we are safe to
start a transaction there for ext4"
These have received a build success notification from the kbuild
robot, and pass the latest libnvdimm unit tests. There have not been
any -next releases since -rc1, so they have not appeared there"
* 'libnvdimm-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/nvdimm/nvdimm:
ext4: Simplify DAX fault path
dax: Call ->iomap_begin without entry lock during dax fault
dax: Finish fault completely when loading holes
dax: Avoid page invalidation races and unnecessary radix tree traversals
mm: Invalidate DAX radix tree entries only if appropriate
ext2: Return BH_New buffers for zeroed blocks
Diffstat (limited to 'net/wireless/wext-compat.h')