From: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
To: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Cc: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>,
linux-fsdevel <linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org>,
Boaz Harrosh <openosd@gmail.com>, stable <stable@vger.kernel.org>,
Robert Barror <robert.barror@intel.com>,
Seema Pandit <seema.pandit@intel.com>,
linux-nvdimm <linux-nvdimm@lists.01.org>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] dax: Fix missed PMD wakeups
Date: Thu, 11 Jul 2019 06:28:36 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190711132836.GR32320@bombadil.infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190711074859.GA8727@quack2.suse.cz>
On Thu, Jul 11, 2019 at 09:48:59AM +0200, Jan Kara wrote:
> On Wed 10-07-19 20:08:55, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> > On Wed, Jul 10, 2019 at 09:02:04PM +0200, Jan Kara wrote:
> > > @@ -848,7 +853,7 @@ static int dax_writeback_one(struct xa_state *xas, struct dax_device *dax_dev,
> > > if (unlikely(dax_is_locked(entry))) {
> > > void *old_entry = entry;
> > >
> > > - entry = get_unlocked_entry(xas);
> > > + entry = get_unlocked_entry(xas, 0);
> > >
> > > /* Entry got punched out / reallocated? */
> > > if (!entry || WARN_ON_ONCE(!xa_is_value(entry)))
> >
> > I'm not sure about this one. Are we sure there will never be a dirty
> > PMD entry? Even if we can't create one today, it feels like a bit of
> > a landmine to leave for someone who creates one in the future.
>
> I was thinking about this but dax_writeback_one() doesn't really care what
> entry it gets. Yes, in theory it could get a PMD when previously there was
> PTE or vice-versa but we check that PFN's match and if they really do
> match, there's no harm in doing the flushing whatever entry we got back...
> And the checks are simpler this way.
That's fair. I'll revert this part to the way you had it.
I actually want to get rid of the PFN match check too; it doesn't really
buy us much. We already check whether the TOWRITE bit is set, and that
should accomplish the same thing.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-07-11 13:28 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-07-03 7:24 [PATCH] dax: Fix missed PMD wakeups Dan Williams
2019-07-03 12:17 ` Matthew Wilcox
2019-07-03 17:01 ` Dan Williams
2019-07-03 19:53 ` Matthew Wilcox
2019-07-03 21:28 ` Dan Williams
2019-07-04 3:27 ` Matthew Wilcox
2019-07-04 13:00 ` Boaz Harrosh
2019-07-04 13:58 ` Matthew Wilcox
2019-07-04 14:32 ` Boaz Harrosh
2019-07-04 16:54 ` Jan Kara
2019-07-04 19:14 ` Matthew Wilcox
2019-07-04 23:27 ` Dan Williams
2019-07-05 19:10 ` Matthew Wilcox
2019-07-05 20:47 ` Dan Williams
2019-07-10 19:02 ` Jan Kara
2019-07-10 20:15 ` Matthew Wilcox
2019-07-10 20:26 ` Jan Kara
2019-07-11 14:13 ` Matthew Wilcox
2019-07-11 15:25 ` Matthew Wilcox
2019-07-11 15:41 ` Jan Kara
2019-07-17 3:39 ` Dan Williams
2019-07-29 12:02 ` Jan Kara
2019-07-29 15:18 ` Dan Williams
2019-07-11 3:08 ` Matthew Wilcox
2019-07-11 7:48 ` Jan Kara
2019-07-11 13:28 ` Matthew Wilcox [this message]
2019-07-11 3:35 ` Matthew Wilcox
2019-07-11 8:06 ` Jan Kara
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