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From: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
To: "Darrick J. Wong" <djwong@kernel.org>
Cc: Shiyang Ruan <ruansy.fnst@fujitsu.com>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	linux-xfs <linux-xfs@vger.kernel.org>,
	Linux NVDIMM <nvdimm@lists.linux.dev>,
	Linux MM <linux-mm@kvack.org>,
	linux-fsdevel <linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org>,
	david <david@fromorbit.com>,
	Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
	Jane Chu <jane.chu@oracle.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v9 02/10] dax: Introduce holder for dax_device
Date: Wed, 5 Jan 2022 16:12:04 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAPcyv4gUmpDnGkhd+WdhcJVMP07u+CT8NXRjzcOTp5KF-5Yo5g@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20220105235407.GN656707@magnolia>

On Wed, Jan 5, 2022 at 3:54 PM Darrick J. Wong <djwong@kernel.org> wrote:
[..]
> > Yes, I think we should just fail the holder registration and
> > DAX+reflink unless the FS being mounted on a whole device. I know Ted
> > and others had reservations about moving filesystems to be mounted on
> > dax-devices directly, but hopefully the whole-block_device requirement
> > is a workable middle ground?
>
> I think you have to be /very/ careful about that kind of statement --
>
> Take ext4 for example.  It has a lot of statically allocated ondisk
> metadata.  Someone could decide that it's a good idea to wire up a media
> failure notification so that we shut down the fs if (say) a giant hole
> opens up in the middle of the inode table.  However, registering any
> kind of media failure handler brings along this requirement for not
> having partitions.
>
> This means that if ext4 finds a filesystem on a partition on a pmem
> device and someone else has already registered a media failure handler,
> it will have to choose between foregoing media failure notifications or
> failing the mount outright.

...good example.

> Or you could support notification call chains...

We ended up with explicit callbacks after hch balked at a notifier
call-chain, but I think we're back to that now. The partition mistake
might be unfixable, but at least bdev_dax_pgoff() is dead. Notifier
call chains have their own locking so, Ruan, this still does not need
to touch dax_read_lock().

  reply	other threads:[~2022-01-06  0:12 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 39+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-12-26 14:34 [PATCH v9 00/10] fsdax: introduce fs query to support reflink Shiyang Ruan
2021-12-26 14:34 ` [PATCH v9 01/10] dax: Use percpu rwsem for dax_{read,write}_lock() Shiyang Ruan
2022-01-04 22:44   ` Dan Williams
2022-01-05 17:45     ` Darrick J. Wong
2022-01-06 11:06     ` Shiyang Ruan
2021-12-26 14:34 ` [PATCH v9 02/10] dax: Introduce holder for dax_device Shiyang Ruan
2022-01-05 18:12   ` Darrick J. Wong
2022-01-05 18:23     ` Dan Williams
2022-01-05 18:56       ` Darrick J. Wong
2022-01-05 19:20         ` Dan Williams
2022-01-05 22:47           ` Darrick J. Wong
2022-01-05 23:01             ` Dan Williams
2022-01-05 23:54               ` Darrick J. Wong
2022-01-06  0:12                 ` Dan Williams [this message]
2022-01-20  8:46                   ` Christoph Hellwig
2022-01-21  1:26                     ` Shiyang Ruan
2022-01-21  2:22                       ` Darrick J. Wong
2022-01-21  7:17                         ` Christoph Hellwig
2022-02-15 21:51                         ` Dan Williams
2021-12-26 14:34 ` [PATCH v9 03/10] mm: factor helpers for memory_failure_dev_pagemap Shiyang Ruan
2021-12-26 14:34 ` [PATCH v9 04/10] pagemap,pmem: Introduce ->memory_failure() Shiyang Ruan
2022-01-05 19:06   ` Darrick J. Wong
2021-12-26 14:34 ` [PATCH v9 05/10] fsdax: fix function description Shiyang Ruan
2022-01-05 17:50   ` Darrick J. Wong
2022-01-20  8:47   ` Christoph Hellwig
2021-12-26 14:34 ` [PATCH v9 06/10] fsdax: Introduce dax_lock_mapping_entry() Shiyang Ruan
2022-01-04 22:55   ` Dan Williams
2021-12-26 14:34 ` [PATCH v9 07/10] mm: move pgoff_address() to vma_pgoff_address() Shiyang Ruan
2022-01-20  8:47   ` Christoph Hellwig
2021-12-26 14:34 ` [PATCH v9 08/10] mm: Introduce mf_dax_kill_procs() for fsdax case Shiyang Ruan
2022-01-20  8:55   ` Christoph Hellwig
2021-12-26 14:34 ` [PATCH v9 09/10] xfs: Implement ->notify_failure() for XFS Shiyang Ruan
2022-01-05 18:53   ` Darrick J. Wong
2022-01-05 21:17     ` Dan Williams
2021-12-26 14:34 ` [PATCH v9 10/10] fsdax: set a CoW flag when associate reflink mappings Shiyang Ruan
2022-01-20  8:59   ` Christoph Hellwig
2022-01-21  2:33     ` Shiyang Ruan
2022-01-21  7:16       ` Christoph Hellwig
2022-01-21  8:34         ` Shiyang Ruan

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