dax: Introduce a ->copy_to_iter dax operation

Similar to the ->copy_from_iter() operation, a platform may want to
deploy an architecture or device specific routine for handling reads
from a dax_device like /dev/pmemX. On x86 this routine will point to a
machine check safe version of copy_to_iter(). For now, add the plumbing
to device-mapper and the dax core.

Cc: Ross Zwisler <ross.zwisler@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>

1 files changed, 5 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/include/linux/dax.h b/include/linux/dax.h
index f9eb22ad341e..a43b396fb336 100644
--- a/include/linux/dax.h
+++ b/include/linux/dax.h
@@ -20,6 +20,9 @@ struct dax_operations {
         /* copy_from_iter: required operation for fs-dax direct-i/o */
         size_t (*copy_from_iter)(struct dax_device *, pgoff_t, void *, size_t,
                         struct iov_iter *);
+        /* copy_to_iter: required operation for fs-dax direct-i/o */
+        size_t (*copy_to_iter)(struct dax_device *, pgoff_t, void *, size_t,
+                        struct iov_iter *);
 };
 
 extern struct attribute_group dax_attribute_group;
@@ -118,6 +121,8 @@ long dax_direct_access(struct dax_device *dax_dev, pgoff_t pgoff, long nr_pages,
                 void **kaddr, pfn_t *pfn);
 size_t dax_copy_from_iter(struct dax_device *dax_dev, pgoff_t pgoff, void *addr,
                 size_t bytes, struct iov_iter *i);
+size_t dax_copy_to_iter(struct dax_device *dax_dev, pgoff_t pgoff, void *addr,
+                size_t bytes, struct iov_iter *i);
 void dax_flush(struct dax_device *dax_dev, void *addr, size_t size);
 
 ssize_t dax_iomap_rw(struct kiocb *iocb, struct iov_iter *iter,