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* [PATCH 0/3 v4] dax: some dax fixes and cleanups
@ 2015-03-25 13:34 ` Boaz Harrosh
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 16+ messages in thread
From: Boaz Harrosh @ 2015-03-25 13:34 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Dave Chinner, Matthew Wilcox, Andrew Morton, Kirill A. Shutemov,
	Jan Kara, Hugh Dickins, Mel Gorman, linux-mm, linux-nvdimm,
	linux-fsdevel, Eryu Guan

Hi

[v4] dax: some dax fixes and cleanups
* First patch fixed according to Andrew's comments. Thanks Andrew.
  1st and 2nd patch can go into current Kernel as they fix something
  that was merged this release.
* Added a new patch to fix up splice in the dax case, and cleanup.
  This one can wait for 4.1 (Also the first two not that anyone uses dax
  in production.)
* DAX freeze is not fixed yet. As we have more problems then I originally
  hoped for, as pointed out by Dave.
  (Just as a referance I'm sending a NO-GOOD additional patch to show what
   is not good enough to do. Was the RFC of [v3])
* Not re-posting the xfstest Dave please pick this up (It already found bugs
  in none dax FSs)

[v3] dax: Fix mmap-write not updating c/mtime
* I'm re-posting the two DAX patches that fix the mmap-write after read
  problem with DAX. (No changes since [v2])
* I'm also posting a 3rd RFC patch to address what Jan said about fs_freeze
  and making mapping read-only. 
  Jan Please review and see if this is what you meant.

[v2]
Jan Kara has pointed out that if we add the
sb_start/end_pagefault pair in the new pfn_mkwrite we
are then fixing another bug where: A user could start
writing to the page while filesystem is frozen.

[v1]
The main problem is that current mm/memory.c will no call us with page_mkwrite
if we do not have an actual page mapping, which is what DAX uses.
The solution presented here introduces a new pfn_mkwrite to solve this problem.
Please see patch-2 for details.

I've been running with this patch for 4 month both HW and VMs with no apparent
danger, but see patch-1 I played it safe.

I am also posting an xfstest 080 that demonstrate this problem, I believe
that also some git operations (can't remember which) suffer from this problem.
Actually Eryu Guan found that this test fails on some other FS as well.

List of patches:
 [PATCH 1/3] mm: New pfn_mkwrite same as page_mkwrite for VM_PFNMAP
 [PATCH 2/3] dax: use pfn_mkwrite to update c/mtime + freeze
 [PATCH 3/3] dax: Unify ext2/4_{dax,}_file_operations

 [PATCH] NOTGOOD: dax: dax_prepare_freeze

Andrew hi
I believe this needs to eventually go through your tree. Please pick it
up when you feel it is ready. I believe all 3 are ready and fix real
bugs.

Matthew hi
I would love to have your ACK on these patches?

Thanks
Boaz

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* [PATCH 0/3 v3] dax: Fix mmap-write not updating c/mtime
@ 2015-03-23 12:47 Boaz Harrosh
  2015-03-23 12:49 ` [PATCH 1/3] mm: New pfn_mkwrite same as page_mkwrite for VM_PFNMAP Boaz Harrosh
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 16+ messages in thread
From: Boaz Harrosh @ 2015-03-23 12:47 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Dave Chinner, Matthew Wilcox, Andrew Morton, Kirill A. Shutemov,
	Jan Kara, Hugh Dickins, Mel Gorman, linux-mm, linux-nvdimm,
	linux-fsdevel, Eryu Guan

Hi

[v3]
* I'm re-posting the two DAX patches that fix the mmap-write after read
  problem with DAX. (No changes since [v2])
* I'm also posting a 3rd RFC patch to address what Jan said about fs_freeze
  and making mapping read-only. 
  Jan Please review and see if this is what you meant.

[v2]
Jan Kara has pointed out that if we add the
sb_start/end_pagefault pair in the new pfn_mkwrite we
are then fixing another bug where: A user could start
writing to the page while filesystem is frozen.

[v1]
The main problem is that current mm/memory.c will no call us with page_mkwrite
if we do not have an actual page mapping, which is what DAX uses.
The solution presented here introduces a new pfn_mkwrite to solve this problem.
Please see patch-2 for details.

I've been running with this patch for 4 month both HW and VMs with no apparent
danger, but see patch-1 I played it safe.

I am also posting an xfstest 080 that demonstrate this problem, I believe
that also some git operations (can't remember which) suffer from this problem.
Actually Eryu Guan found that this test fails on some other FS as well.

List of patches:
  [PATCH 1/3] mm: New pfn_mkwrite same as page_mkwrite for VM_PFNMAP
  [PATCH 2/3] dax: use pfn_mkwrite to update c/mtime + freeze
  [PATCH 3/3] RFC: dax: dax_prepare_freeze

  [PATCH v4] xfstest: generic/080 test that mmap-write updates c/mtime

Please I need that some mm person review the first patch?

Andrew hi
I believe this needs to eventually go through your tree. Please pick it
up when you feel it is ready. I believe the first 2 are ready and fix real
bugs.

Matthew hi
I would love to have your ACK on these patches?

Thanks
Boaz

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2015-03-25 13:38 ` [PATCH 1/3] mm: New pfn_mkwrite same as page_mkwrite for VM_PFNMAP Boaz Harrosh
2015-03-25 14:34   ` Kirill A. Shutemov
2015-03-26  7:49     ` Boaz Harrosh
2015-03-25 15:08   ` Dave Hansen
2015-03-25 15:13     ` Kirill A. Shutemov
2015-03-25 13:41 ` [PATCH 2/3] dax: pfn_mkwrite update c/mtime + freeze protection Boaz Harrosh
2015-03-25 13:41   ` Boaz Harrosh
2015-03-25 13:44 ` [PATCH 3/3] dax: Unify ext2/4_{dax,}_file_operations Boaz Harrosh
2015-03-25 13:44   ` Boaz Harrosh
2015-03-25 13:47 ` [FIXME] NOT-GOOD: dax: dax_prepare_freeze Boaz Harrosh
2015-03-25 13:47   ` Boaz Harrosh
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2015-03-23 12:47 [PATCH 0/3 v3] dax: Fix mmap-write not updating c/mtime Boaz Harrosh
2015-03-23 12:49 ` [PATCH 1/3] mm: New pfn_mkwrite same as page_mkwrite for VM_PFNMAP Boaz Harrosh
2015-03-23 22:49   ` Andrew Morton
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