[PATCH v2 7/7] pmem, dax: have direct_access use __pmem annotation
Christoph Hellwig
hch at lst.de
Sat Aug 15 19:19:50 AEST 2015
On Thu, Aug 13, 2015 at 10:51:11AM -0600, Ross Zwisler wrote:
> Update the annotation for the kaddr pointer returned by direct_access()
> so that it is a __pmem pointer. This is consistent with the PMEM driver
> and with how this direct_access() pointer is used in the DAX code.
IFF we stick to the __pmem annotations this looks good.
That beeing said I start to really dislike them. We don't special
accesors to read/write from pmem, we just need to explicitly commit
it if we want to make it persistent. So I really don't see the need
to treat it special and require all the force casts to and from the
attribute.
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