From: Coly Li <colyli@suse.de>
To: Ira Weiny <ira.weiny@intel.com>
Cc: linux-nvdimm@lists.01.org, dm-devel@redhat.com,
Adrian Huang <ahuang12@lenovo.com>, Jan Kara <jack@suse.com>,
Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>,
Pankaj Gupta <pankaj.gupta.linux@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] dax: fix for do not print error message for non-persistent memory block device
Date: Fri, 4 Sep 2020 00:12:17 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <c202e410-99af-3f15-0f76-def5fba7a83a@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200903160608.GU878166@iweiny-DESK2.sc.intel.com>
On 2020/9/4 00:06, Ira Weiny wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 03, 2020 at 07:55:49PM +0800, Coly Li wrote:
>> When calling __generic_fsdax_supported(), a dax-unsupported device may
>> not have dax_dev as NULL, e.g. the dax related code block is not enabled
>> by Kconfig.
>>
>> Therefore in __generic_fsdax_supported(), to check whether a device
>> supports DAX or not, the following order should be performed,
>> - If dax_dev pointer is NULL, it means the device driver explicitly
>> announce it doesn't support DAX. Then it is OK to directly return
>> false from __generic_fsdax_supported().
>> - If dax_dev pointer is NOT NULL, it might be because the driver doesn't
>> support DAX and not explicitly initialize related data structure. Then
>> bdev_dax_supported() should be called for further check.
>>
>> IMHO if device driver desn't explicitly set its dax_dev pointer to NULL,
>> this is not a bug. Calling bdev_dax_supported() makes sure they can be
>> recognized as dax-unsupported eventually.
>>
>> This patch does the following change for the above purpose,
>> - if (!dax_dev && !bdev_dax_supported(bdev, blocksize)) {
>> + if (!dax_dev || !bdev_dax_supported(bdev, blocksize)) {
>>
>>
>> Fixes: c2affe920b0e ("dax: do not print error message for non-persistent memory block device")
>> Signed-off-by: Coly Li <colyli@suse.de>
>
> I hate to do this because I realize this is a bug which people really need
> fixed.
>
> However, shouldn't we also check (!dax_dev || !bdev_dax_supported()) as the
> _first_ check in __generic_fsdax_supported()?
>
> It seems like the other pr_info's could also be called when DAX is not
> supported and we probably don't want them to be?
>
> Perhaps that should be a follow on patch though. So...
I am not author of c2affe920b0e, but I guess it was because
bdev_dax_supported() needed blocksize, so blocksize should pass previous
checks firstly to make sure bdev_dax_supported() has a correct blocksize
to check.
>
> As a direct fix to c2affe920b0e
>
> Reviewed-by: Ira Weiny <ira.weiny@intel.com>
Thanks.
Coly Li
>
>> Cc: Adrian Huang <ahuang12@lenovo.com>
>> Cc: Ira Weiny <ira.weiny@intel.com>
>> Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.com>
>> Cc: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
>> Cc: Pankaj Gupta <pankaj.gupta.linux@gmail.com>
>> Cc: Vishal Verma <vishal.l.verma@intel.com>
>> ---
>> drivers/dax/super.c | 2 +-
>> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/drivers/dax/super.c b/drivers/dax/super.c
>> index 32642634c1bb..e5767c83ea23 100644
>> --- a/drivers/dax/super.c
>> +++ b/drivers/dax/super.c
>> @@ -100,7 +100,7 @@ bool __generic_fsdax_supported(struct dax_device *dax_dev,
>> return false;
>> }
>>
>> - if (!dax_dev && !bdev_dax_supported(bdev, blocksize)) {
>> + if (!dax_dev || !bdev_dax_supported(bdev, blocksize)) {
>> pr_debug("%s: error: dax unsupported by block device\n",
>> bdevname(bdev, buf));
>> return false;
>> --
>> 2.26.2
>>
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Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-09-03 11:55 [PATCH] dax: fix for do not print error message for non-persistent memory block device Coly Li
2020-09-03 15:26 ` [External] " Adrian Huang12
2020-09-03 16:06 ` Ira Weiny
2020-09-03 16:12 ` Coly Li [this message]
2020-09-10 20:29 ` John Pittman
2020-09-11 0:54 ` Coly Li
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