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Commit ed923b57 authored by Matthew Wilcox's avatar Matthew Wilcox Committed by Linus Torvalds
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ext4: add ext4_get_block_dax()



DAX wants different semantics from any currently-existing ext4 get_block
callback.  Unlike ext4_get_block_write(), it needs to honour the
'create' flag, and unlike ext4_get_block(), it needs to be able to
return unwritten extents.  So introduce a new ext4_get_block_dax() which
has those semantics.

We could also change ext4_get_block_write() to honour the 'create' flag,
but that might have consequences on other users that I do not currently
understand.

Signed-off-by: default avatarMatthew Wilcox <willy@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
parent 84c4e5e6
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