From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-6.0 required=3.0 tests=HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS, MAILING_LIST_MULTI,SIGNED_OFF_BY,SPF_HELO_NONE,SPF_PASS,URIBL_BLOCKED, USER_AGENT_NEOMUTT autolearn=unavailable autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 Received: from mail.kernel.org (mail.kernel.org [198.145.29.99]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 96F1BC282E1 for ; Thu, 23 May 2019 15:27:28 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [209.132.180.67]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6C30D206BA for ; Thu, 23 May 2019 15:27:28 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1731032AbfEWP10 (ORCPT ); Thu, 23 May 2019 11:27:26 -0400 Received: from mx2.suse.de ([195.135.220.15]:39808 "EHLO mx1.suse.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1730972AbfEWP10 (ORCPT ); Thu, 23 May 2019 11:27:26 -0400 X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at test-mx.suse.de Received: from relay2.suse.de (unknown [195.135.220.254]) by mx1.suse.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 69AD7ADEA; Thu, 23 May 2019 15:27:25 +0000 (UTC) Date: Thu, 23 May 2019 10:27:22 -0500 From: Goldwyn Rodrigues To: Jan Kara Cc: linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org, kilobyte@angband.pl, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, david@fromorbit.com, willy@infradead.org, hch@lst.de, darrick.wong@oracle.com, dsterba@suse.cz, nborisov@suse.com, linux-nvdimm@lists.01.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 16/18] btrfs: Writeprotect mmap pages on snapshot Message-ID: <20190523152722.ybo5xuhej3yonvgt@fiona> References: <20190429172649.8288-1-rgoldwyn@suse.de> <20190429172649.8288-17-rgoldwyn@suse.de> <20190523140445.GD2949@quack2.suse.cz> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20190523140445.GD2949@quack2.suse.cz> User-Agent: NeoMutt/20180716 Sender: linux-fsdevel-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org On 16:04 23/05, Jan Kara wrote: > On Mon 29-04-19 12:26:47, Goldwyn Rodrigues wrote: > > From: Goldwyn Rodrigues > > > > Inorder to make sure mmap'd files don't change after snapshot, > > writeprotect the mmap pages on snapshot. This is done by performing > > a data writeback on the pages (which simply mark the pages are > > wrprotected). This way if the user process tries to access the memory > > we will get another fault and we can perform a CoW. > > > > In order to accomplish this, we tag all CoW pages as > > PAGECACHE_TAG_TOWRITE, and add the mmapd inode in delalloc_inodes. > > During snapshot, it starts writeback of all delalloc'd inodes and > > here we perform a data writeback. We don't want to keep the inodes > > in delalloc_inodes until it umount (WARN_ON), so we remove it > > during inode evictions. > > > > Signed-off-by: Goldwyn Rodrigues > > OK, so here you use PAGECACHE_TAG_TOWRITE. But why is not > PAGECACHE_TAG_DIRTY enough for you? Also why isn't the same needed also for > normal non-DAX inodes? There you also need to trigger CoW on mmap write so > I just don't see the difference... Because dax_writeback_mapping_range() writebacks pages marked PAGECACHE_TAG_TOWRITE and not PAGECACHE_TAG_DIRTY. Should it writeback pages marked as PAGECACHE_TAG_DIRTY as well? -- Goldwyn