Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 29 Mar 2022 22:41:58 -0700 | From | Christoph Hellwig <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH v11 1/8] dax: Introduce holder for dax_device |
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On Wed, Mar 16, 2022 at 09:46:07PM +0800, Shiyang Ruan wrote: > > Forgive me if this has been discussed before, but since dax_operations > > are in terms of pgoff and nr pages and memory_failure() is in terms of > > pfns what was the rationale for making the function signature byte > > based? > > Maybe I didn't describe it clearly... The @offset and @len here are > byte-based. And so is ->memory_failure().
Yes, but is there a good reason for that when the rest of the DAX code tends to work in page chunks?
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