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Dave Chinner committed ce5c5d554dc
dax: expose __dax_fault for filesystems with locking constraints Some filesystems cannot call dax_fault() directly because they have different locking and/or allocation constraints in the page fault IO path. To handle this, we need to follow the same model as the generic block_page_mkwrite code, where the internals are exposed via __block_page_mkwrite() so that filesystems can wrap the correct locking and operations around the outside. This is loosely based on a patch originally from Matthew Willcox. Unlike the original patch, it does not change ext4 code, error returns or unwritten extent conversion handling. It also adds a __dax_mkwrite() wrapper for .page_mkwrite implementations to do the right thing, too. Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>