Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 8 May 2016 01:52:03 -0700 | From | Christoph Hellwig <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH v5 3/5] dax: use sb_issue_zerout instead of calling dax_clear_sectors |
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On Fri, May 06, 2016 at 03:53:09PM -0600, Vishal Verma wrote: > From: Matthew Wilcox <matthew.r.wilcox@intel.com> > > dax_clear_sectors() cannot handle poisoned blocks. These must be > zeroed using the BIO interface instead. Convert ext2 and XFS to use > only sb_issue_zerout(). > > Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox <matthew.r.wilcox@intel.com> > [vishal: Also remove the dax_clear_sectors function entirely] > Signed-off-by: Vishal Verma <vishal.l.verma@intel.com>
Just to make sure: the existing sb_issue_zerout as in 4.6-rc is already doing the right thing for DAX? I've got a pending patchset for XFS that introduces another dax_clear_sectors users, but if it's already safe to use blkdev_issue_zeroout I can switch to that and avoid the merge conflict.
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