[PATCH v5 0/5] dax: handling media errors (clear-on-zero only)

[PATCH v5 0/5] dax: handling media errors (clear-on-zero only)

[Vishal Verma]

Until now, dax has been disabled if media errors were found on
any device. This series attempts to address that.

The first two patches from Dan re-enable dax even when media
errors are present.

The third patch from Matthew removes the zeroout path from dax
entirely, making zeroout operations always go through the driver
(The motivation is that if a backing device has media errors,
and we create a sparse file on it, we don't want the initial
zeroing to happen via dax, we want to give the block driver a
chance to clear the errors).

Patch 4 reduces our calls to clear_pmem from dax in the
truncate/hole-punch cases. We check if the range being truncated
is sector aligned/sized, and if so, send blkdev_issue_zeroout
instead of clear_pmem so that errors can be handled better by
the driver.

Patch 5 fixes a redundant comment in DAX and is mostly unrelated
to the rest of this series.

This series also depends on/is based on Jan Kara's DAX Locking
fixes series [1].


[1]: http://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-mm/msg105819.html

v5:
 - Drop the patch that attempts to clear-errors-on-write till we
   reach consensus on how to handle that.
 - Don't pass blk_dax_ctl to direct_access, instead pass in all the
   required arguments individually (Christoph, Dan)

v4:
 - Remove the dax->direct_IO fallbacks entirely. Instead, go through
   the usual direct_IO path when we're in O_DIRECT, and use dax_IO
   for other, non O_DIRECT IO. (Dan, Christoph)

v3:
 - Wrapper-ize the direct_IO fallback again and make an exception
   for -EIOCBQUEUED (Jeff, Dan)
 - Reduce clear_pmem usage in DAX to the minimum


Dan Williams (2):
  dax: fallback from pmd to pte on error
  dax: enable dax in the presence of known media errors (badblocks)

Matthew Wilcox (1):
  dax: use sb_issue_zerout instead of calling dax_clear_sectors

Vishal Verma (2):
  dax: for truncate/hole-punch, do zeroing through the driver if
    possible
  dax: fix a comment in dax_zero_page_range and dax_truncate_page

 Documentation/filesystems/dax.txt | 32 ++++++++++++++++
 arch/powerpc/sysdev/axonram.c     |  2 +-
 block/ioctl.c                     |  9 -----
 drivers/block/brd.c               |  2 +-
 drivers/nvdimm/pmem.c             | 10 ++++-
 drivers/s390/block/dcssblk.c      |  2 +-
 fs/block_dev.c                    |  2 +-
 fs/dax.c                          | 78 ++++++++++++++-------------------------
 fs/ext2/inode.c                   |  7 ++--
 fs/xfs/xfs_bmap_util.c            | 15 ++------
 include/linux/blkdev.h            |  2 +-
 include/linux/dax.h               |  1 -
 12 files changed, 80 insertions(+), 82 deletions(-)

-- 
2.5.5

[PATCH v5 1/5] dax: fallback from pmd to pte on error

[Vishal Verma]

From: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>

In preparation for consulting a badblocks list in pmem_direct_access(),
teach dax_pmd_fault() to fallback rather than fail immediately upon
encountering an error.  The thought being that reducing the span of the
dax request may avoid the error region.

Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
---
 fs/dax.c | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/dax.c b/fs/dax.c
index 5a34f08..52f0044 100644
--- a/fs/dax.c
+++ b/fs/dax.c
@@ -1111,8 +1111,8 @@ int __dax_pmd_fault(struct vm_area_struct *vma, unsigned long address,
 		long length = dax_map_atomic(bdev, &dax);
 
 		if (length < 0) {
-			result = VM_FAULT_SIGBUS;
-			goto out;
+			dax_pmd_dbg(&bh, address, "dax-error fallback");
+			goto fallback;
 		}
 		if (length < PMD_SIZE) {
 			dax_pmd_dbg(&bh, address, "dax-length too small");
-- 
2.5.5

[PATCH v5 2/5] dax: enable dax in the presence of known media errors (badblocks)

[Vishal Verma]

From: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>

1/ If a mapping overlaps a bad sector fail the request.

2/ Do not opportunistically report more dax-capable capacity than is
   requested when errors present.

Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
[vishal: fix a conflict with system RAM collision patches]
[vishal: add a 'size' parameter to ->direct_access]
Signed-off-by: Vishal Verma <vishal.l.verma@intel.com>
---
 arch/powerpc/sysdev/axonram.c |  2 +-
 block/ioctl.c                 |  9 ---------
 drivers/block/brd.c           |  2 +-
 drivers/nvdimm/pmem.c         | 10 +++++++++-
 drivers/s390/block/dcssblk.c  |  2 +-
 fs/block_dev.c                |  2 +-
 include/linux/blkdev.h        |  2 +-
 7 files changed, 14 insertions(+), 15 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/powerpc/sysdev/axonram.c b/arch/powerpc/sysdev/axonram.c
index 0d112b9..ff75d70 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/sysdev/axonram.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/sysdev/axonram.c
@@ -143,7 +143,7 @@ axon_ram_make_request(struct request_queue *queue, struct bio *bio)
  */
 static long
 axon_ram_direct_access(struct block_device *device, sector_t sector,
-		       void __pmem **kaddr, pfn_t *pfn)
+		       void __pmem **kaddr, pfn_t *pfn, long size)
 {
 	struct axon_ram_bank *bank = device->bd_disk->private_data;
 	loff_t offset = (loff_t)sector << AXON_RAM_SECTOR_SHIFT;
diff --git a/block/ioctl.c b/block/ioctl.c
index 4ff1f92..bf80bfd 100644
--- a/block/ioctl.c
+++ b/block/ioctl.c
@@ -423,15 +423,6 @@ bool blkdev_dax_capable(struct block_device *bdev)
 			|| (bdev->bd_part->nr_sects % (PAGE_SIZE / 512)))
 		return false;
 
-	/*
-	 * If the device has known bad blocks, force all I/O through the
-	 * driver / page cache.
-	 *
-	 * TODO: support finer grained dax error handling
-	 */
-	if (disk->bb && disk->bb->count)
-		return false;
-
 	return true;
 }
 #endif
diff --git a/drivers/block/brd.c b/drivers/block/brd.c
index 51a071e..c04bd9b 100644
--- a/drivers/block/brd.c
+++ b/drivers/block/brd.c
@@ -381,7 +381,7 @@ static int brd_rw_page(struct block_device *bdev, sector_t sector,
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_BLK_DEV_RAM_DAX
 static long brd_direct_access(struct block_device *bdev, sector_t sector,
-			void __pmem **kaddr, pfn_t *pfn)
+			void __pmem **kaddr, pfn_t *pfn, long size)
 {
 	struct brd_device *brd = bdev->bd_disk->private_data;
 	struct page *page;
diff --git a/drivers/nvdimm/pmem.c b/drivers/nvdimm/pmem.c
index f798899..c447579 100644
--- a/drivers/nvdimm/pmem.c
+++ b/drivers/nvdimm/pmem.c
@@ -182,14 +182,22 @@ static int pmem_rw_page(struct block_device *bdev, sector_t sector,
 }
 
 static long pmem_direct_access(struct block_device *bdev, sector_t sector,
-		      void __pmem **kaddr, pfn_t *pfn)
+		      void __pmem **kaddr, pfn_t *pfn, long size)
 {
 	struct pmem_device *pmem = bdev->bd_disk->private_data;
 	resource_size_t offset = sector * 512 + pmem->data_offset;
 
+	if (unlikely(is_bad_pmem(&pmem->bb, sector, size)))
+		return -EIO;
 	*kaddr = pmem->virt_addr + offset;
 	*pfn = phys_to_pfn_t(pmem->phys_addr + offset, pmem->pfn_flags);
 
+	/*
+	 * If badblocks are present, limit known good range to the
+	 * requested range.
+	 */
+	if (unlikely(pmem->bb.count))
+		return size;
 	return pmem->size - pmem->pfn_pad - offset;
 }
 
diff --git a/drivers/s390/block/dcssblk.c b/drivers/s390/block/dcssblk.c
index b839086..c45d538 100644
--- a/drivers/s390/block/dcssblk.c
+++ b/drivers/s390/block/dcssblk.c
@@ -884,7 +884,7 @@ fail:
 
 static long
 dcssblk_direct_access (struct block_device *bdev, sector_t secnum,
-			void __pmem **kaddr, pfn_t *pfn)
+			void __pmem **kaddr, pfn_t *pfn, long size)
 {
 	struct dcssblk_dev_info *dev_info;
 	unsigned long offset, dev_sz;
diff --git a/fs/block_dev.c b/fs/block_dev.c
index b25bb23..02c68c4 100644
--- a/fs/block_dev.c
+++ b/fs/block_dev.c
@@ -488,7 +488,7 @@ long bdev_direct_access(struct block_device *bdev, struct blk_dax_ctl *dax)
 	sector += get_start_sect(bdev);
 	if (sector % (PAGE_SIZE / 512))
 		return -EINVAL;
-	avail = ops->direct_access(bdev, sector, &dax->addr, &dax->pfn);
+	avail = ops->direct_access(bdev, sector, &dax->addr, &dax->pfn, size);
 	if (!avail)
 		return -ERANGE;
 	if (avail > 0 && avail & ~PAGE_MASK)
diff --git a/include/linux/blkdev.h b/include/linux/blkdev.h
index 669e419..55ed530 100644
--- a/include/linux/blkdev.h
+++ b/include/linux/blkdev.h
@@ -1657,7 +1657,7 @@ struct block_device_operations {
 	int (*ioctl) (struct block_device *, fmode_t, unsigned, unsigned long);
 	int (*compat_ioctl) (struct block_device *, fmode_t, unsigned, unsigned long);
 	long (*direct_access)(struct block_device *, sector_t, void __pmem **,
-			pfn_t *);
+			pfn_t *, long);
 	unsigned int (*check_events) (struct gendisk *disk,
 				      unsigned int clearing);
 	/* ->media_changed() is DEPRECATED, use ->check_events() instead */
-- 
2.5.5

[PATCH v5 3/5] dax: use sb_issue_zerout instead of calling dax_clear_sectors

[Vishal Verma]

From: Matthew Wilcox <matthew.r.wilcox@intel.com>

dax_clear_sectors() cannot handle poisoned blocks.  These must be
zeroed using the BIO interface instead.  Convert ext2 and XFS to use
only sb_issue_zerout().

Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox <matthew.r.wilcox@intel.com>
[vishal: Also remove the dax_clear_sectors function entirely]
Signed-off-by: Vishal Verma <vishal.l.verma@intel.com>
---
 fs/dax.c               | 32 --------------------------------
 fs/ext2/inode.c        |  7 +++----
 fs/xfs/xfs_bmap_util.c | 15 ++++-----------
 include/linux/dax.h    |  1 -
 4 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 48 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/dax.c b/fs/dax.c
index 52f0044..5948d9b 100644
--- a/fs/dax.c
+++ b/fs/dax.c
@@ -116,38 +116,6 @@ struct page *read_dax_sector(struct block_device *bdev, sector_t n)
 	return page;
 }
 
-/*
- * dax_clear_sectors() is called from within transaction context from XFS,
- * and hence this means the stack from this point must follow GFP_NOFS
- * semantics for all operations.
- */
-int dax_clear_sectors(struct block_device *bdev, sector_t _sector, long _size)
-{
-	struct blk_dax_ctl dax = {
-		.sector = _sector,
-		.size = _size,
-	};
-
-	might_sleep();
-	do {
-		long count, sz;
-
-		count = dax_map_atomic(bdev, &dax);
-		if (count < 0)
-			return count;
-		sz = min_t(long, count, SZ_128K);
-		clear_pmem(dax.addr, sz);
-		dax.size -= sz;
-		dax.sector += sz / 512;
-		dax_unmap_atomic(bdev, &dax);
-		cond_resched();
-	} while (dax.size);
-
-	wmb_pmem();
-	return 0;
-}
-EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(dax_clear_sectors);
-
 static bool buffer_written(struct buffer_head *bh)
 {
 	return buffer_mapped(bh) && !buffer_unwritten(bh);
diff --git a/fs/ext2/inode.c b/fs/ext2/inode.c
index 1f07b75..35f2b0bf 100644
--- a/fs/ext2/inode.c
+++ b/fs/ext2/inode.c
@@ -26,6 +26,7 @@
 #include <linux/highuid.h>
 #include <linux/pagemap.h>
 #include <linux/dax.h>
+#include <linux/blkdev.h>
 #include <linux/quotaops.h>
 #include <linux/writeback.h>
 #include <linux/buffer_head.h>
@@ -737,10 +738,8 @@ static int ext2_get_blocks(struct inode *inode,
 		 * so that it's not found by another thread before it's
 		 * initialised
 		 */
-		err = dax_clear_sectors(inode->i_sb->s_bdev,
-				le32_to_cpu(chain[depth-1].key) <<
-				(inode->i_blkbits - 9),
-				1 << inode->i_blkbits);
+		err = sb_issue_zeroout(inode->i_sb,
+				le32_to_cpu(chain[depth-1].key), 1, GFP_NOFS);
 		if (err) {
 			mutex_unlock(&ei->truncate_mutex);
 			goto cleanup;
diff --git a/fs/xfs/xfs_bmap_util.c b/fs/xfs/xfs_bmap_util.c
index 3b63098..930ac6a 100644
--- a/fs/xfs/xfs_bmap_util.c
+++ b/fs/xfs/xfs_bmap_util.c
@@ -72,18 +72,11 @@ xfs_zero_extent(
 	struct xfs_mount *mp = ip->i_mount;
 	xfs_daddr_t	sector = xfs_fsb_to_db(ip, start_fsb);
 	sector_t	block = XFS_BB_TO_FSBT(mp, sector);
-	ssize_t		size = XFS_FSB_TO_B(mp, count_fsb);
-
-	if (IS_DAX(VFS_I(ip)))
-		return dax_clear_sectors(xfs_find_bdev_for_inode(VFS_I(ip)),
-				sector, size);
-
-	/*
-	 * let the block layer decide on the fastest method of
-	 * implementing the zeroing.
-	 */
-	return sb_issue_zeroout(mp->m_super, block, count_fsb, GFP_NOFS);
 
+	return blkdev_issue_zeroout(xfs_find_bdev_for_inode(VFS_I(ip)),
+		block << (mp->m_super->s_blocksize_bits - 9),
+		count_fsb << (mp->m_super->s_blocksize_bits - 9),
+		GFP_NOFS, true);
 }
 
 /*
diff --git a/include/linux/dax.h b/include/linux/dax.h
index ef94fa7..426841a 100644
--- a/include/linux/dax.h
+++ b/include/linux/dax.h
@@ -11,7 +11,6 @@
 
 ssize_t dax_do_io(struct kiocb *, struct inode *, struct iov_iter *, loff_t,
 		  get_block_t, dio_iodone_t, int flags);
-int dax_clear_sectors(struct block_device *bdev, sector_t _sector, long _size);
 int dax_zero_page_range(struct inode *, loff_t from, unsigned len, get_block_t);
 int dax_truncate_page(struct inode *, loff_t from, get_block_t);
 int dax_fault(struct vm_area_struct *, struct vm_fault *, get_block_t);
-- 
2.5.5

[PATCH v5 4/5] dax: for truncate/hole-punch, do zeroing through the driver if possible

[Vishal Verma]

In the truncate or hole-punch path in dax, we clear out sub-page ranges.
If these sub-page ranges are sector aligned and sized, we can do the
zeroing through the driver instead so that error-clearing is handled
automatically.

For sub-sector ranges, we still have to rely on clear_pmem and have the
possibility of tripping over errors.

Cc: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Cc: Ross Zwisler <ross.zwisler@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Vishal Verma <vishal.l.verma@intel.com>
---
 Documentation/filesystems/dax.txt | 32 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 fs/dax.c                          | 30 +++++++++++++++++++++++++-----
 2 files changed, 57 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/dax.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/dax.txt
index 7bde640..ce4587d 100644
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/dax.txt
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/dax.txt
@@ -79,6 +79,38 @@ These filesystems may be used for inspiration:
 - ext4: the fourth extended filesystem, see Documentation/filesystems/ext4.txt
 
 
+Handling Media Errors
+---------------------
+
+The libnvdimm subsystem stores a record of known media error locations for
+each pmem block device (in gendisk->badblocks). If we fault at such location,
+or one with a latent error not yet discovered, the application can expect
+to receive a SIGBUS. Libnvdimm also allows clearing of these errors by simply
+writing the affected sectors (through the pmem driver, and if the underlying
+NVDIMM supports the clear_poison DSM defined by ACPI).
+
+Since DAX IO normally doesn't go through the driver/bio path, applications or
+sysadmins have an option to restore the lost data from a prior backup/inbuilt
+redundancy in the following ways:
+
+1. Delete the affected file, and restore from a backup (sysadmin route):
+   This will free the file system blocks that were being used by the file,
+   and the next time they're allocated, they will be zeroed first, which
+   happens through the driver, and will clear bad sectors.
+
+2. Truncate or hole-punch the part of the file that has a bad-block (at least
+   an entire aligned sector has to be hole-punched, but not necessarily an
+   entire filesystem block).
+
+These are the two basic paths that allow DAX filesystems to continue operating
+in the presence of media errors. More robust error recovery mechanisms can be
+built on top of this in the future, for example, involving redundancy/mirroring
+provided at the block layer through DM, or additionally, at the filesystem
+level. These would have to rely on the above two tenets, that error clearing
+can happen either by sending an IO through the driver, or zeroing (also through
+the driver).
+
+
 Shortcomings
 ------------
 
diff --git a/fs/dax.c b/fs/dax.c
index 5948d9b..d8c974e 100644
--- a/fs/dax.c
+++ b/fs/dax.c
@@ -1196,6 +1196,20 @@ out:
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(dax_pfn_mkwrite);
 
+static bool dax_range_is_aligned(struct block_device *bdev,
+				 struct blk_dax_ctl *dax, unsigned int offset,
+				 unsigned int length)
+{
+	unsigned short sector_size = bdev_logical_block_size(bdev);
+
+	if (((u64)dax->addr + offset) % sector_size)
+		return false;
+	if (length % sector_size)
+		return false;
+
+	return true;
+}
+
 /**
  * dax_zero_page_range - zero a range within a page of a DAX file
  * @inode: The file being truncated
@@ -1240,11 +1254,17 @@ int dax_zero_page_range(struct inode *inode, loff_t from, unsigned length,
 			.size = PAGE_SIZE,
 		};
 
-		if (dax_map_atomic(bdev, &dax) < 0)
-			return PTR_ERR(dax.addr);
-		clear_pmem(dax.addr + offset, length);
-		wmb_pmem();
-		dax_unmap_atomic(bdev, &dax);
+		if (dax_range_is_aligned(bdev, &dax, offset, length))
+			return blkdev_issue_zeroout(bdev, dax.sector,
+					length / bdev_logical_block_size(bdev),
+					GFP_NOFS, true);
+		else {
+			if (dax_map_atomic(bdev, &dax) < 0)
+				return PTR_ERR(dax.addr);
+			clear_pmem(dax.addr + offset, length);
+			wmb_pmem();
+			dax_unmap_atomic(bdev, &dax);
+		}
 	}
 
 	return 0;
-- 
2.5.5

[PATCH v5 5/5] dax: fix a comment in dax_zero_page_range and dax_truncate_page

[Vishal Verma]

The distinction between PAGE_SIZE and PAGE_CACHE_SIZE was removed in

09cbfea mm, fs: get rid of PAGE_CACHE_* and page_cache_{get,release}
macros

The comments for the above functions described a distinction between
those, that is now redundant, so remove those paragraphs

Cc: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Vishal Verma <vishal.l.verma@intel.com>
---
 fs/dax.c | 12 ------------
 1 file changed, 12 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/dax.c b/fs/dax.c
index d8c974e..b8fa85a 100644
--- a/fs/dax.c
+++ b/fs/dax.c
@@ -1221,12 +1221,6 @@ static bool dax_range_is_aligned(struct block_device *bdev,
  * page in a DAX file.  This is intended for hole-punch operations.  If
  * you are truncating a file, the helper function dax_truncate_page() may be
  * more convenient.
- *
- * We work in terms of PAGE_SIZE here for commonality with
- * block_truncate_page(), but we could go down to PAGE_SIZE if the filesystem
- * took care of disposing of the unnecessary blocks.  Even if the filesystem
- * block size is smaller than PAGE_SIZE, we have to zero the rest of the page
- * since the file might be mmapped.
  */
 int dax_zero_page_range(struct inode *inode, loff_t from, unsigned length,
 							get_block_t get_block)
@@ -1279,12 +1273,6 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(dax_zero_page_range);
  *
  * Similar to block_truncate_page(), this function can be called by a
  * filesystem when it is truncating a DAX file to handle the partial page.
- *
- * We work in terms of PAGE_SIZE here for commonality with
- * block_truncate_page(), but we could go down to PAGE_SIZE if the filesystem
- * took care of disposing of the unnecessary blocks.  Even if the filesystem
- * block size is smaller than PAGE_SIZE, we have to zero the rest of the page
- * since the file might be mmapped.
  */
 int dax_truncate_page(struct inode *inode, loff_t from, get_block_t get_block)
 {
-- 
2.5.5

Re: [PATCH v5 3/5] dax: use sb_issue_zerout instead of calling dax_clear_sectors

[Christoph Hellwig]

On Fri, May 06, 2016 at 03:53:09PM -0600, Vishal Verma wrote:
> From: Matthew Wilcox <matthew.r.wilcox@intel.com>
> 
> dax_clear_sectors() cannot handle poisoned blocks.  These must be
> zeroed using the BIO interface instead.  Convert ext2 and XFS to use
> only sb_issue_zerout().
> 
> Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox <matthew.r.wilcox@intel.com>
> [vishal: Also remove the dax_clear_sectors function entirely]
> Signed-off-by: Vishal Verma <vishal.l.verma@intel.com>

Just to make sure:  the existing sb_issue_zerout as in 4.6-rc
is already doing the right thing for DAX?  I've got a pending patchset
for XFS that introduces another dax_clear_sectors users, but if it's
already safe to use blkdev_issue_zeroout I can switch to that and avoid
the merge conflict.

Re: [PATCH v5 0/5] dax: handling media errors (clear-on-zero only)

[Christoph Hellwig]

This series looks fine to me:

Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>

Re: [PATCH v5 3/5] dax: use sb_issue_zerout instead of calling dax_clear_sectors

[Verma, Vishal L]

On Sun, 2016-05-08 at 01:52 -0700, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Fri, May 06, 2016 at 03:53:09PM -0600, Vishal Verma wrote:
> > 
> > From: Matthew Wilcox <matthew.r.wilcox@intel.com>
> > 
> > dax_clear_sectors() cannot handle poisoned blocks.  These must be
> > zeroed using the BIO interface instead.  Convert ext2 and XFS to
> > use
> > only sb_issue_zerout().
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox <matthew.r.wilcox@intel.com>
> > [vishal: Also remove the dax_clear_sectors function entirely]
> > Signed-off-by: Vishal Verma <vishal.l.verma@intel.com>
> Just to make sure:  the existing sb_issue_zerout as in 4.6-rc
> is already doing the right thing for DAX?  I've got a pending
> patchset
> for XFS that introduces another dax_clear_sectors users, but if it's
> already safe to use blkdev_issue_zeroout I can switch to that and
> avoid
> the merge conflict.

I believe so - Jan has moved all unwritten extent conversions out of
DAX with his patch set, and I believe zeroing through the driver is
always fine. Ross or Jan could confirm though. 

Re: [PATCH v5 3/5] dax: use sb_issue_zerout instead of calling dax_clear_sectors

[Ross Zwisler]

On Sun, May 08, 2016 at 06:46:13PM +0000, Verma, Vishal L wrote:
> On Sun, 2016-05-08 at 01:52 -0700, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> > On Fri, May 06, 2016 at 03:53:09PM -0600, Vishal Verma wrote:
> > > 
> > > From: Matthew Wilcox <matthew.r.wilcox@intel.com>
> > > 
> > > dax_clear_sectors() cannot handle poisoned blocks.  These must be
> > > zeroed using the BIO interface instead.  Convert ext2 and XFS to
> > > use
> > > only sb_issue_zerout().
> > > 
> > > Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox <matthew.r.wilcox@intel.com>
> > > [vishal: Also remove the dax_clear_sectors function entirely]
> > > Signed-off-by: Vishal Verma <vishal.l.verma@intel.com>
> > Just to make sure:  the existing sb_issue_zerout as in 4.6-rc
> > is already doing the right thing for DAX?  I've got a pending
> > patchset
> > for XFS that introduces another dax_clear_sectors users, but if it's
> > already safe to use blkdev_issue_zeroout I can switch to that and
> > avoid
> > the merge conflict.
> 
> I believe so - Jan has moved all unwritten extent conversions out of
> DAX with his patch set, and I believe zeroing through the driver is
> always fine. Ross or Jan could confirm though. 

Yep, I believe that the existing sb_issue_zeroout() as of v4.6-rc* does the
right thing.  We'll end up calling sb_issue_zeroout() => blkdev_issue_zeroout()
=> __blkdev_issue_zeroout() because we don't have support for discard or
write_same in PMEM.  This will send zero page BIOs to the PMEM driver, which
will do the zeroing as normal writes.

Re: [PATCH v5 1/5] dax: fallback from pmd to pte on error

[Jan Kara]

On Fri 06-05-16 15:53:07, Vishal Verma wrote:
> From: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
> 
> In preparation for consulting a badblocks list in pmem_direct_access(),
> teach dax_pmd_fault() to fallback rather than fail immediately upon
> encountering an error.  The thought being that reducing the span of the
> dax request may avoid the error region.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>

The patch looks good. You can add:

Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>

								Honza
-- 
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SUSE Labs, CR

Re: [PATCH v5 3/5] dax: use sb_issue_zerout instead of calling dax_clear_sectors

[Jan Kara]

On Fri 06-05-16 15:53:09, Vishal Verma wrote:
> From: Matthew Wilcox <matthew.r.wilcox@intel.com>
> 
> dax_clear_sectors() cannot handle poisoned blocks.  These must be
> zeroed using the BIO interface instead.  Convert ext2 and XFS to use
> only sb_issue_zerout().
> 
> Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox <matthew.r.wilcox@intel.com>
> [vishal: Also remove the dax_clear_sectors function entirely]
> Signed-off-by: Vishal Verma <vishal.l.verma@intel.com>

The patch looks good. You can add:

Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>

								Honza
-- 
Jan Kara <jack@suse.com>
SUSE Labs, CR

Re: [PATCH v5 4/5] dax: for truncate/hole-punch, do zeroing through the driver if possible

[Jan Kara]

On Fri 06-05-16 15:53:10, Vishal Verma wrote:
> +static bool dax_range_is_aligned(struct block_device *bdev,
> +				 struct blk_dax_ctl *dax, unsigned int offset,
> +				 unsigned int length)
> +{
> +	unsigned short sector_size = bdev_logical_block_size(bdev);
> +
> +	if (((u64)dax->addr + offset) % sector_size)
> +		return false;
> +	if (length % sector_size)
> +		return false;

sector_size should better be a power of two so you can save some cycles by
using & instead of %.

> @@ -1240,11 +1254,17 @@ int dax_zero_page_range(struct inode *inode, loff_t from, unsigned length,
>  			.size = PAGE_SIZE,
>  		};
>  
> -		if (dax_map_atomic(bdev, &dax) < 0)
> -			return PTR_ERR(dax.addr);
> -		clear_pmem(dax.addr + offset, length);
> -		wmb_pmem();
> -		dax_unmap_atomic(bdev, &dax);
> +		if (dax_range_is_aligned(bdev, &dax, offset, length))
> +			return blkdev_issue_zeroout(bdev, dax.sector,
> +					length / bdev_logical_block_size(bdev),
> +					GFP_NOFS, true);

This is actually wrong. blkdev_issue_zeroout() expects length to be simply
in units of 512-bytes. So you need length >> 9 here.

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-- 
Jan Kara <jack@suse.com>
SUSE Labs, CR

Re: [PATCH v5 5/5] dax: fix a comment in dax_zero_page_range and dax_truncate_page

[Jan Kara]

On Fri 06-05-16 15:53:11, Vishal Verma wrote:
> The distinction between PAGE_SIZE and PAGE_CACHE_SIZE was removed in
> 
> 09cbfea mm, fs: get rid of PAGE_CACHE_* and page_cache_{get,release}
> macros
> 
> The comments for the above functions described a distinction between
> those, that is now redundant, so remove those paragraphs
> 
> Cc: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
> Signed-off-by: Vishal Verma <vishal.l.verma@intel.com>

Looks good. You can add:

Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>

								Honza
-- 
Jan Kara <jack@suse.com>
SUSE Labs, CR