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Linus Torvalds 315227f6da DAX error handling for 4.7
- Until now, dax has been disabled if media errors were found on
   any device. This enables the use of DAX in the presence of these
   errors by making all sector-aligned zeroing go through the driver.
 - The driver (already) has the ability to clear errors on writes that
   are sent through the block layer using 'DSMs' defined in ACPI 6.1.
 
 Other misc changes:
 
 - When mounting DAX filesystems, check to make sure the partition
   is page aligned. This is a requirement for DAX, and previously, we
   allowed such unaligned mounts to succeed, but subsequent reads/writes
   would fail.
 
 - Misc/cleanup fixes from Jan that remove unused code from DAX related to
   zeroing, writeback, and some size checks.
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Merge tag 'dax-misc-for-4.7' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/nvdimm/nvdimm

Pull misc DAX updates from Vishal Verma:
 "DAX error handling for 4.7

   - Until now, dax has been disabled if media errors were found on any
     device.  This enables the use of DAX in the presence of these
     errors by making all sector-aligned zeroing go through the driver.

   - The driver (already) has the ability to clear errors on writes that
     are sent through the block layer using 'DSMs' defined in ACPI 6.1.

  Other misc changes:

   - When mounting DAX filesystems, check to make sure the partition is
     page aligned.  This is a requirement for DAX, and previously, we
     allowed such unaligned mounts to succeed, but subsequent
     reads/writes would fail.

   - Misc/cleanup fixes from Jan that remove unused code from DAX
     related to zeroing, writeback, and some size checks"

* tag 'dax-misc-for-4.7' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/nvdimm/nvdimm:
  dax: fix a comment in dax_zero_page_range and dax_truncate_page
  dax: for truncate/hole-punch, do zeroing through the driver if possible
  dax: export a low-level __dax_zero_page_range helper
  dax: use sb_issue_zerout instead of calling dax_clear_sectors
  dax: enable dax in the presence of known media errors (badblocks)
  dax: fallback from pmd to pte on error
  block: Update blkdev_dax_capable() for consistency
  xfs: Add alignment check for DAX mount
  ext2: Add alignment check for DAX mount
  ext4: Add alignment check for DAX mount
  block: Add bdev_dax_supported() for dax mount checks
  block: Add vfs_msg() interface
  dax: Remove redundant inode size checks
  dax: Remove pointless writeback from dax_do_io()
  dax: Remove zeroing from dax_io()
  dax: Remove dead zeroing code from fault handlers
  ext2: Avoid DAX zeroing to corrupt data
  ext2: Fix block zeroing in ext2_get_blocks() for DAX
  dax: Remove complete_unwritten argument
  DAX: move RADIX_DAX_ definitions to dax.c
2016-05-26 19:34:26 -07:00
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