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    Merge tag 'vfs-5.8-merge-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/fs/xfs/xfs-linux · 8eeae5ba
    Linus Torvalds authored
    Pull DAX updates part two from Darrick Wong:
     "This time around, we're hoisting the DONTCACHE flag from XFS into the
      VFS so that we can make the incore DAX mode changes become effective
      sooner.
    
      We can't change the file data access mode on a live inode because we
      don't have a safe way to change the file ops pointers. The incore
      state change becomes effective at inode loading time, which can happen
      if the inode is evicted. Therefore, we're making it so that
      filesystems can ask the VFS to evict the inode as soon as the last
      holder drops.
    
      The per-fs changes to make this call this will be in subsequent pull
      requests from Ted and myself.
    
      Summary:
    
       - Introduce DONTCACHE flags for dentries and inodes. This hint will
         cause the VFS to drop the associated objects immediately after the
         last put, so that we can change the file access mode (DAX or page
         cache) on the fly"
    
    * tag 'vfs-5.8-merge-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/fs/xfs/xfs-linux:
      fs: Introduce DCACHE_DONTCACHE
      fs: Lift XFS_IDONTCACHE to the VFS layer
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