block: Add bdev_dax_supported() for dax mount checks
authorToshi Kani <toshi.kani@hpe.com>
Tue, 10 May 2016 16:23:53 +0000 (10:23 -0600)
committerVishal Verma <vishal.l.verma@intel.com>
Tue, 17 May 2016 06:44:11 +0000 (00:44 -0600)
commit2d96afc8f70ef86c66a0b5d80c24a27d6dd13df3
tree094e60ebc2d1ecd365c8d2e38a1502d0e6c36999
parent2af3a8159cd204fc8437ed2f75863f0fb930f0d0
block: Add bdev_dax_supported() for dax mount checks

DAX imposes additional requirements to a device.  Add
bdev_dax_supported() which performs all the precondition checks
necessary for filesystem to mount the device with dax option.

Also add a new check to verify if a partition is aligned by 4KB.
When a partition is unaligned, any dax read/write access fails,
except for metadata update.

Signed-off-by: Toshi Kani <toshi.kani@hpe.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
Cc: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: Andreas Dilger <adilger.kernel@dilger.ca>
Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Cc: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
Cc: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Cc: Ross Zwisler <ross.zwisler@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: Boaz Harrosh <boaz@plexistor.com>
Signed-off-by: Vishal Verma <vishal.l.verma@intel.com>
fs/block_dev.c
include/linux/blkdev.h