mm: add follow_pte_pmd()
Patch series "Write protect DAX PMDs in *sync path". Currently dax_mapping_entry_mkclean() fails to clean and write protect the pmd_t of a DAX PMD entry during an *sync operation. This can result in data loss, as detailed in patch 2. This series is based on Dan's "libnvdimm-pending" branch, which is the current home for Jan's "dax: Page invalidation fixes" series. You can find a working tree here: https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/zwisler/linux.git/log/?h=dax_pmd_clean This patch (of 2): Similar to follow_pte(), follow_pte_pmd() allows either a PTE leaf or a huge page PMD leaf to be found and returned. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1482272586-21177-2-git-send-email-ross.zwisler@linux.intel.comSigned-off-by: Ross Zwisler <ross.zwisler@linux.intel.com> Suggested-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com> Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Cc: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com> Cc: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com> Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Cc: Matthew Wilcox <mawilcox@microsoft.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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