Commit 8012b866 authored by Shiyang Ruan's avatar Shiyang Ruan Committed by akpm
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dax: introduce holder for dax_device

Patch series "v14 fsdax-rmap + v11 fsdax-reflink", v2.

The patchset fsdax-rmap is aimed to support shared pages tracking for
fsdax.

It moves owner tracking from dax_assocaite_entry() to pmem device driver,
by introducing an interface ->memory_failure() for struct pagemap.  This
interface is called by memory_failure() in mm, and implemented by pmem
device.

Then call holder operations to find the filesystem which the corrupted
data located in, and call filesystem handler to track files or metadata
associated with this page.

Finally we are able to try to fix the corrupted data in filesystem and do
other necessary processing, such as killing processes who are using the
files affected.

The call trace is like this:
memory_failure()
|* fsdax case
|------------
|pgmap->ops->memory_failure()      => pmem_pgmap_memory_failure()
| dax_holder_notify_failure()      =>
|  dax_device->holder_ops->notify_failure() =>
|                                     - xfs_dax_notify_failure(...
parent 96c06573
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