On Thu, Oct 29, 2015 at 5:50 AM, Jeff Moyer <[email protected]> wrote: > Dan Williams <[email protected]> writes: > >> If an application wants exclusive access to all of the persistent memory >> provided by an NVDIMM namespace it can use this raw-block-dax facility >> to forgo establishing a filesystem. This capability is targeted >> primarily to hypervisors wanting to provision persistent memory for >> guests. > > OK, I'm going to expose my ignorance here. :) Why does the block device > need a page_mkwrite handler? >
You're right, it buys us nothing, and deleting it saves having to comment on why this page_mkwrite instance is not calling sb_start_pagefault. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
