block: use DAX for partition table reads
Avoid populating pagecache when the block device is in DAX mode.
Otherwise these page cache entries collide with the fsync/msync
implementation and break data durability guarantees.
Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.com>
Cc: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Reported-by: Ross Zwisler <ross.zwisler@linux.intel.com>
Tested-by: Ross Zwisler <ross.zwisler@linux.intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Matthew Wilcox <willy@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
diff --git a/include/linux/dax.h b/include/linux/dax.h
index 8204c3d..818e450 100644
--- a/include/linux/dax.h
+++ b/include/linux/dax.h
@@ -14,6 +14,17 @@
dax_iodone_t);
int __dax_fault(struct vm_area_struct *, struct vm_fault *, get_block_t,
dax_iodone_t);
+
+#ifdef CONFIG_FS_DAX
+struct page *read_dax_sector(struct block_device *bdev, sector_t n);
+#else
+static inline struct page *read_dax_sector(struct block_device *bdev,
+ sector_t n)
+{
+ return ERR_PTR(-ENXIO);
+}
+#endif
+
#ifdef CONFIG_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE
int dax_pmd_fault(struct vm_area_struct *, unsigned long addr, pmd_t *,
unsigned int flags, get_block_t, dax_iodone_t);