msync in pmfs and other NVM filesystems

[Byan, Steve]

On Feb 7, 2014, at 4:59 PM, Dave Hansen <dave.hansen at intel.com> wrote:

> On 02/07/2014 01:43 PM, Byan, Steve wrote:
>> I admit to having not read the code, but I'm hopeful that someone readily knows how, for a msync call, the kernel identifies the correct execute-in-place filesystem(s) to dispatch to for a range of memory. Suppose the application calls msync with a range that specifies more than one mapped file, and those two files are in different XIP filesystems?
> 
> The code is in mm/msync.c.  It's fairly straightforward.
> 
> Essentially, it walks the virtual addresses handed to the system call,
> finds all the parts that are file-backed, and calls vfs_fsync() on the
> _whole_ file.
> 
> FWIW, it doesn't look that efficient or optimized, but it seems to do
> the trick.

Thanks very much, Dave.

Best regards,
-Steve

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