dm: add ->flush() dax operation support

Allow device-mapper to route flush operations to the
per-target implementation. In order for the device stacking to work we
need a dax_dev and a pgoff relative to that device. This gives each
layer of the stack the information it needs to look up the operation
pointer for the next level.

This conceptually allows for an array of mixed device drivers with
varying flush implementations.

Reviewed-by: Toshi Kani <toshi.kani@hpe.com>
Reviewed-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
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Dan Williams 2017-05-29 13:02:52 -07:00
parent 3c1cebff23
commit abebfbe2f7
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@ -82,6 +82,8 @@ long dax_direct_access(struct dax_device *dax_dev, pgoff_t pgoff, long nr_pages,
void **kaddr, pfn_t *pfn);
size_t dax_copy_from_iter(struct dax_device *dax_dev, pgoff_t pgoff, void *addr,
size_t bytes, struct iov_iter *i);
void dax_flush(struct dax_device *dax_dev, pgoff_t pgoff, void *addr,
size_t size);
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