On Wed, Feb 1, 2017 at 12:08 AM, Christoph Hellwig <h...@lst.de> wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 30, 2017 at 10:29:12AM -0800, Dan Williams wrote:
>> On Mon, Jan 30, 2017 at 4:26 AM, Christoph Hellwig <h...@lst.de> wrote:
>> > On Sat, Jan 28, 2017 at 12:37:14AM -0800, Dan Williams wrote:
>> >> This is in preparation for removing the ->direct_access() method from
>> >> block_device_operations.
>> >
>> > I don't think mount_bdev has any business knowing about DAX.
>> > Just call dax_get_by_host manually from the affected file systems for
>> > now, and in the future we can have a pure-DAX mount_dax helper.
>>
>> Ok, since we already need dax_get_by_host() in the blkdev_writepages()
>> path I can sprinkle a few more of those calls and leave mount_bdev
>> alone.
>
> Huh?  I thought we stopped using DAX I/O for the block device nodes
> a while ago?

Oh, yeah, you're right. The blkdev_writepages() call to
dax_writeback_mapping_range() is likely leftover dead code. I'll clean
it up.
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