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>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v9 01/10] dax: Use percpu rwsem for dax_{read,write}_lock()
Date: Tue, 4 Jan 2022 14:44:08 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAPcyv4gkxuFRGh57nYrpS8mXo+5j-7=KGNn-gULgLGthZQPo2g@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20211226143439.3985960-2-ruansy.fnst@fujitsu.com>
On Sun, Dec 26, 2021 at 6:35 AM Shiyang Ruan <ruansy.fnst@fujitsu.com> wrote:
>
> In order to introduce dax holder registration, we need a write lock for
> dax.
As far as I can see, no, a write lock is not needed while the holder
is being registered.
The synchronization that is needed is to make sure that the device
stays live over the registration event, and that any in-flight holder
operations are flushed before the device transitions from live to
dead, and that in turn relates to the live state of the pgmap.
The dax device cannot switch from live to dead without first flushing
all readers, so holding dax_read_lock() over the register holder event
should be sufficient. If you are worried about 2 or more potential
holders colliding at registration time, I would expect that's already
prevented by block device exclusive holder synchronization, but you
could also use cmpxchg and a single pointer to a 'struct dax_holder {
void *holder_data, struct dax_holder_operations *holder_ops }'. If you
are worried about memory_failure triggering while the filesystem is
shutting down it can do a synchronize_srcu(&dax_srcu) if it really
needs to ensure that the notify path is idle after removing the holder
registration.
...are there any cases remaining not covered by the above suggestions?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-01-04 22:44 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 [this message]
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
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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