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virtiofs does not have a block device but it has dax device. Modify bdev_dax_pgoff() to be able to handle that. If there is no bdev, that means dax offset is 0. (It can't be a partition block device starting at an offset in dax device). This is little hackish. There have been discussions about getting rid of dax not supporting partitions. https://lore.kernel.org/linux-fsdevel/20200107125159.GA15745@infradead.org/ IMHO, this path can easily break exisitng users. For example ioctl(BLKPG_ADD_PARTITION) will start breaking on block devices supporting DAX. Also, I personally find it very useful to be able to partition dax devices and still be able to use DAX. Alternatively, I tried to store offset into dax device information in iomap interface, but that got NACKed. https://lore.kernel.org/linux-fsdevel/20200217133117.GB20444@infradead.org/ I can't think of a good path to solve this issue properly. So to make progress, it seems this patch is least bad option for now and I hope we can take it. Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> Cc: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com> Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Cc: Vishal L Verma <vishal.l.verma@intel.com> Cc: "Weiny, Ira" <ira.weiny@intel.com> Cc: linux-nvdimm@lists.01.org Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@redhat.com>
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