From: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
To: Shiyang Ruan <ruansy.fnst@fujitsu.com>
Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
linux-xfs <linux-xfs@vger.kernel.org>,
Linux NVDIMM <nvdimm@lists.linux.dev>,
Linux MM <linux-mm@kvack.org>,
linux-fsdevel <linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org>,
"Darrick J. Wong" <djwong@kernel.org>,
david <david@fromorbit.com>,
Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
Jane Chu <jane.chu@oracle.com>, Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v9 06/10] fsdax: Introduce dax_lock_mapping_entry()
Date: Tue, 4 Jan 2022 14:55:54 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAPcyv4jVDfpHb1DCW+NLXH2YBgLghCVy8o6wrc02CXx4g-Bv7Q@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20211226143439.3985960-7-ruansy.fnst@fujitsu.com>
On Sun, Dec 26, 2021 at 6:35 AM Shiyang Ruan <ruansy.fnst@fujitsu.com> wrote:
>
> The current dax_lock_page() locks dax entry by obtaining mapping and
> index in page. To support 1-to-N RMAP in NVDIMM, we need a new function
> to lock a specific dax entry corresponding to this file's mapping,index.
> And output the page corresponding to the specific dax entry for caller
> use.
Is this necessary? The point of dax_lock_page() is to ensure that the
fs does not destroy the address_space, or remap the pfn while
memory_failure() is operating on the pfn. In the notify_failure case
control is handed to the fs so I expect it can make those guarantees
itself, no?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-01-04 22:56 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 39+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-12-26 14:34 [PATCH v9 00/10] fsdax: introduce fs query to support reflink Shiyang Ruan
2021-12-26 14:34 ` [PATCH v9 01/10] dax: Use percpu rwsem for dax_{read,write}_lock() Shiyang Ruan
2022-01-04 22:44 ` Dan Williams
2022-01-05 17:45 ` Darrick J. Wong
2022-01-06 11:06 ` Shiyang Ruan
2021-12-26 14:34 ` [PATCH v9 02/10] dax: Introduce holder for dax_device Shiyang Ruan
2022-01-05 18:12 ` Darrick J. Wong
2022-01-05 18:23 ` Dan Williams
2022-01-05 18:56 ` Darrick J. Wong
2022-01-05 19:20 ` Dan Williams
2022-01-05 22:47 ` Darrick J. Wong
2022-01-05 23:01 ` Dan Williams
2022-01-05 23:54 ` Darrick J. Wong
2022-01-06 0:12 ` Dan Williams
2022-01-20 8:46 ` Christoph Hellwig
2022-01-21 1:26 ` Shiyang Ruan
2022-01-21 2:22 ` Darrick J. Wong
2022-01-21 7:17 ` Christoph Hellwig
2022-02-15 21:51 ` Dan Williams
2021-12-26 14:34 ` [PATCH v9 03/10] mm: factor helpers for memory_failure_dev_pagemap Shiyang Ruan
2021-12-26 14:34 ` [PATCH v9 04/10] pagemap,pmem: Introduce ->memory_failure() Shiyang Ruan
2022-01-05 19:06 ` Darrick J. Wong
2021-12-26 14:34 ` [PATCH v9 05/10] fsdax: fix function description Shiyang Ruan
2022-01-05 17:50 ` Darrick J. Wong
2022-01-20 8:47 ` Christoph Hellwig
2021-12-26 14:34 ` [PATCH v9 06/10] fsdax: Introduce dax_lock_mapping_entry() Shiyang Ruan
2022-01-04 22:55 ` Dan Williams [this message]
2021-12-26 14:34 ` [PATCH v9 07/10] mm: move pgoff_address() to vma_pgoff_address() Shiyang Ruan
2022-01-20 8:47 ` Christoph Hellwig
2021-12-26 14:34 ` [PATCH v9 08/10] mm: Introduce mf_dax_kill_procs() for fsdax case Shiyang Ruan
2022-01-20 8:55 ` Christoph Hellwig
2021-12-26 14:34 ` [PATCH v9 09/10] xfs: Implement ->notify_failure() for XFS Shiyang Ruan
2022-01-05 18:53 ` Darrick J. Wong
2022-01-05 21:17 ` Dan Williams
2021-12-26 14:34 ` [PATCH v9 10/10] fsdax: set a CoW flag when associate reflink mappings Shiyang Ruan
2022-01-20 8:59 ` Christoph Hellwig
2022-01-21 2:33 ` Shiyang Ruan
2022-01-21 7:16 ` Christoph Hellwig
2022-01-21 8:34 ` Shiyang Ruan
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