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Linus Torvalds authored
Pull dax fixes from Dan Williams:
 "A filesystem-dax and device-dax fix for v5.3.

  The filesystem-dax fix is tagged for stable as the implementation has
  been mistakenly throwing away all cow pages on any truncate or hole
  punch operation as part of the solution to coordinate device-dma vs
  truncate to dax pages.

  The device-dax change fixes up a regression this cycle from the
  introduction of a common 'internal per-cpu-ref' implementation.

  Summary:

   - Fix dax_layout_busy_page() to not discard private cow pages of
     fs/dax private mappings.

   - Update the memremap_pages core to properly cleanup on behalf of
     internal reference-count users like device-dax"

* tag 'dax-fixes-5.3-rc4' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/nvdimm/nvdimm:
  mm/memremap: Fix reuse of pgmap instances with internal references
  dax: dax_layout_busy_page() should not unmap cow pages
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