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From: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
To: Halil Pasic <pasic@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	kvm@vger.kernel.org, linux-nvdimm@lists.01.org,
	miklos@szeredi.hu, stefanha@redhat.com, dgilbert@redhat.com,
	swhiteho@redhat.com, Sebastian Ott <sebott@linux.ibm.com>,
	Cornelia Huck <cohuck@redhat.com>,
	Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com>,
	Collin Walling <walling@linux.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 18/30] virtio_fs, dax: Set up virtio_fs dax_device
Date: Thu, 18 Jul 2019 09:15:32 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190718131532.GA13883@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190717192725.25c3d146.pasic@linux.ibm.com>

On Wed, Jul 17, 2019 at 07:27:25PM +0200, Halil Pasic wrote:
> On Wed, 15 May 2019 15:27:03 -0400
> Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com> wrote:
> 
> > From: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
> > 
> > Setup a dax device.
> > 
> > Use the shm capability to find the cache entry and map it.
> > 
> > The DAX window is accessed by the fs/dax.c infrastructure and must have
> > struct pages (at least on x86).  Use devm_memremap_pages() to map the
> > DAX window PCI BAR and allocate struct page.
> >
> 
> Sorry for being this late. I don't see any more recent version so I will
> comment here.
> 
> I'm trying to figure out how is this supposed to work on s390. My concern
> is, that on s390 PCI memory needs to be accessed by special
> instructions. This is taken care of by the stuff defined in
> arch/s390/include/asm/io.h. E.g. we 'override' __raw_writew so it uses
> the appropriate s390 instruction. However if the code does not use the
> linux abstractions for accessing PCI memory, but assumes it can be
> accessed like RAM, we have a problem.
> 
> Looking at this patch, it seems to me, that we might end up with exactly
> the case described. For example AFAICT copy_to_iter() (3) resolves to
> the function in lib/iov_iter.c which does not seem to cater for s390
> oddities.
> 
> I didn't have the time to investigate this properly, and since virtio-fs
> is virtual, we may be able to get around what is otherwise a
> limitation on s390. My understanding of these areas is admittedly
> shallow, and since I'm not sure I'll have much more time to
> invest in the near future I decided to raise concern.
> 
> Any opinions?

Hi Halil,

I don't understand s390 and how PCI works there as well. Is there any
other transport we can use there to map IO memory directly and access
using DAX?

BTW, is DAX supported for s390.

I am also hoping somebody who knows better can chip in. Till that time,
we could still use virtio-fs on s390 without DAX.

Thanks
Vivek

  parent reply	other threads:[~2019-07-18 13:15 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 52+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-05-15 19:26 [PATCH v2 00/30] [RFC] virtio-fs: shared file system for virtual machines Vivek Goyal
2019-05-15 19:26 ` [PATCH v2 01/30] fuse: delete dentry if timeout is zero Vivek Goyal
2019-05-15 19:26 ` [PATCH v2 02/30] fuse: Clear setuid bit even in cache=never path Vivek Goyal
2019-05-20 14:41   ` Miklos Szeredi
2019-05-20 14:44     ` Miklos Szeredi
2019-05-20 20:25       ` Nikolaus Rath
2019-05-21 15:01     ` Vivek Goyal
2019-05-15 19:26 ` [PATCH v2 03/30] fuse: Use default_file_splice_read for direct IO Vivek Goyal
2019-05-15 19:26 ` [PATCH v2 04/30] fuse: export fuse_end_request() Vivek Goyal
2019-05-15 19:26 ` [PATCH v2 05/30] fuse: export fuse_len_args() Vivek Goyal
2019-05-15 19:26 ` [PATCH v2 06/30] fuse: Export fuse_send_init_request() Vivek Goyal
2019-05-15 19:26 ` [PATCH v2 07/30] fuse: export fuse_get_unique() Vivek Goyal
2019-05-15 19:26 ` [PATCH v2 08/30] fuse: extract fuse_fill_super_common() Vivek Goyal
2019-05-15 19:26 ` [PATCH v2 09/30] fuse: add fuse_iqueue_ops callbacks Vivek Goyal
2019-05-15 19:26 ` [PATCH v2 10/30] fuse: Separate fuse device allocation and installation in fuse_conn Vivek Goyal
2019-05-15 19:26 ` [PATCH v2 11/30] virtio_fs: add skeleton virtio_fs.ko module Vivek Goyal
2019-05-15 19:26 ` [PATCH v2 12/30] dax: remove block device dependencies Vivek Goyal
2019-05-16  0:21   ` Dan Williams
2019-05-16 10:07     ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2019-05-16 14:23     ` Vivek Goyal
2019-05-15 19:26 ` [PATCH v2 13/30] dax: Pass dax_dev to dax_writeback_mapping_range() Vivek Goyal
2019-05-15 19:26 ` [PATCH v2 14/30] virtio: Add get_shm_region method Vivek Goyal
2019-05-15 19:27 ` [PATCH v2 15/30] virtio: Implement get_shm_region for PCI transport Vivek Goyal
2019-05-15 19:27 ` [PATCH v2 16/30] virtio: Implement get_shm_region for MMIO transport Vivek Goyal
2019-05-15 19:27 ` [PATCH v2 17/30] fuse, dax: add fuse_conn->dax_dev field Vivek Goyal
2019-05-15 19:27 ` [PATCH v2 18/30] virtio_fs, dax: Set up virtio_fs dax_device Vivek Goyal
2019-07-17 17:27   ` Halil Pasic
2019-07-18  9:04     ` Cornelia Huck
2019-07-18 11:20       ` Halil Pasic
2019-07-18 14:47         ` Cornelia Huck
2019-07-18 13:15     ` Vivek Goyal [this message]
2019-07-18 14:30       ` Dan Williams
2019-07-22 10:51         ` Christian Borntraeger
2019-07-22 10:56           ` Dr. David Alan Gilbert
2019-07-22 11:20             ` Christian Borntraeger
2019-07-22 11:43               ` Cornelia Huck
2019-07-22 12:00                 ` Christian Borntraeger
2019-07-22 12:08                   ` David Hildenbrand
2019-07-29 13:20                     ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2019-05-15 19:27 ` [PATCH v2 19/30] fuse: Keep a list of free dax memory ranges Vivek Goyal
2019-05-15 19:27 ` [PATCH v2 20/30] fuse: Introduce setupmapping/removemapping commands Vivek Goyal
2019-05-15 19:27 ` [PATCH v2 21/30] fuse, dax: Implement dax read/write operations Vivek Goyal
2019-05-15 19:27 ` [PATCH v2 22/30] fuse, dax: add DAX mmap support Vivek Goyal
2019-05-15 19:27 ` [PATCH v2 23/30] fuse: Define dax address space operations Vivek Goyal
2019-05-15 19:27 ` [PATCH v2 24/30] fuse, dax: Take ->i_mmap_sem lock during dax page fault Vivek Goyal
2019-05-15 19:27 ` [PATCH v2 25/30] fuse: Maintain a list of busy elements Vivek Goyal
2019-05-15 19:27 ` [PATCH v2 26/30] fuse: Add logic to free up a memory range Vivek Goyal
     [not found]   ` <CAN+Pk99SNKSf+GjSQUUWt_eu1fSjTy_ByUOEQUXHi8zNqXY1zA@mail.gmail.com>
2019-05-20 12:53     ` Vivek Goyal
2019-05-15 19:27 ` [PATCH v2 27/30] fuse: Release file in process context Vivek Goyal
2019-05-15 19:27 ` [PATCH v2 28/30] fuse: Reschedule dax free work if too many EAGAIN attempts Vivek Goyal
2019-05-15 19:27 ` [PATCH v2 29/30] fuse: Take inode lock for dax inode truncation Vivek Goyal
2019-05-15 19:27 ` [PATCH v2 30/30] virtio-fs: Do not provide abort interface in fusectl Vivek Goyal

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