From: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
To: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
Cc: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>,
Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu>,
linux-nvdimm <linux-nvdimm@lists.01.org>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
"Dr. David Alan Gilbert" <dgilbert@redhat.com>,
virtio-fs@redhat.com, Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>,
linux-fsdevel <linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 01/19] dax: remove block device dependencies
Date: Wed, 28 Aug 2019 17:04:11 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAPcyv4jGEAbYSJef2zLzgg6Arozsuz7eN_vZL1iTcd1XQuNT4Q@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190828225322.GA7777@dread.disaster.area>
On Wed, Aug 28, 2019 at 3:53 PM Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com> wrote:
>
> On Wed, Aug 28, 2019 at 01:58:43PM -0400, Vivek Goyal wrote:
> > On Tue, Aug 27, 2019 at 11:58:09PM -0700, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> > > On Tue, Aug 27, 2019 at 12:38:28PM -0400, Vivek Goyal wrote:
> > > > > For bdev_dax_pgoff
> > > > > I'd much rather have the partition offset if there is on in the daxdev
> > > > > somehow so that we can get rid of the block device entirely.
> > > >
> > > > IIUC, there is one block_device per partition while there is only one
> > > > dax_device for the whole disk. So we can't directly move bdev logical
> > > > offset into dax_device.
> > >
> > > Well, then we need to find a way to get partitions for dax devices,
> > > as we really should not expect a block device hiding behind a dax
> > > dev. That is just a weird legacy assumption - block device need to
> > > layer on top of the dax device optionally.
> > >
> > > >
> > > > We probably could put this in "iomap" and leave it to filesystems to
> > > > report offset into dax_dev in iomap that way dax generic code does not
> > > > have to deal with it. But that probably will be a bigger change.
> > >
> > > And where would the file system get that information from?
> >
> > File system knows about block device, can it just call get_start_sect()
> > while filling iomap->addr. And this means we don't have to have
> > parition information in dax device. Will something like following work?
> > (Just a proof of concept patch).
> >
> >
> > ---
> > drivers/dax/super.c | 11 +++++++++++
> > fs/dax.c | 6 +++---
> > fs/ext4/inode.c | 6 +++++-
> > include/linux/dax.h | 1 +
> > 4 files changed, 20 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
> >
> > Index: rhvgoyal-linux/fs/ext4/inode.c
> > ===================================================================
> > --- rhvgoyal-linux.orig/fs/ext4/inode.c 2019-08-28 13:51:16.051937204 -0400
> > +++ rhvgoyal-linux/fs/ext4/inode.c 2019-08-28 13:51:44.453937204 -0400
> > @@ -3589,7 +3589,11 @@ retry:
> > WARN_ON_ONCE(1);
> > return -EIO;
> > }
> > - iomap->addr = (u64)map.m_pblk << blkbits;
> > + if (IS_DAX(inode))
> > + iomap->addr = ((u64)map.m_pblk << blkbits) +
> > + (get_start_sect(iomap->bdev) * 512);
> > + else
> > + iomap->addr = (u64)map.m_pblk << blkbits;
>
> I'm not a fan of returning a physical device sector address from an
> interface where ever other user/caller expects this address to be a
> logical block address into the block device. It creates a landmine
> in the iomap API that callers may not be aware of and that's going
> to cause bugs. We're trying really hard to keep special case hacks
> like this out of the iomap infrastructure, so on those grounds alone
> I'd suggest this is a dead end approach.
>
> Hence I think that if the dax device needs a physical offset from
> the start of the block device the filesystem sits on, it should be
> set up at dax device instantiation time and so the filesystem/bdev
> never needs to be queried again for this information.
>
Agree. In retrospect it was my laziness in the dax-device
implementation to expect the block-device to be available.
It looks like fs_dax_get_by_bdev() is an intercept point where a
dax_device could be dynamically created to represent the subset range
indicated by the block-device partition. That would open up more
cleanup opportunities.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-08-29 0:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 77+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-08-21 17:57 [PATCH v3 00/19][RFC] virtio-fs: Enable DAX support Vivek Goyal
2019-08-21 17:57 ` [PATCH 01/19] dax: remove block device dependencies Vivek Goyal
2019-08-26 11:51 ` Christoph Hellwig
2019-08-27 16:38 ` Vivek Goyal
2019-08-28 6:58 ` Christoph Hellwig
2019-08-28 17:58 ` Vivek Goyal
2019-08-28 22:53 ` Dave Chinner
2019-08-29 0:04 ` Dan Williams [this message]
2019-08-29 9:32 ` Christoph Hellwig
2019-12-16 18:10 ` Vivek Goyal
2020-01-07 12:51 ` Christoph Hellwig
2020-01-07 14:22 ` Dan Williams
2020-01-07 17:07 ` Darrick J. Wong
2020-01-07 17:29 ` Dan Williams
2020-01-07 18:01 ` Vivek Goyal
2020-01-07 18:07 ` Dan Williams
2020-01-07 18:33 ` Vivek Goyal
2020-01-07 18:49 ` Dan Williams
2020-01-07 19:02 ` Darrick J. Wong
2020-01-07 19:46 ` Dan Williams
2020-01-07 23:38 ` Dan Williams
2020-01-09 11:24 ` Jan Kara
2020-01-09 20:03 ` Dan Williams
2020-01-10 12:36 ` Christoph Hellwig
2020-01-14 20:31 ` Vivek Goyal
2020-01-14 20:39 ` Dan Williams
2020-01-14 21:28 ` Vivek Goyal
2020-01-14 22:23 ` Dan Williams
2020-01-15 19:56 ` Vivek Goyal
2020-01-15 20:17 ` Dan Williams
2020-01-15 21:08 ` Jeff Moyer
2020-01-16 18:09 ` Dan Williams
2020-01-16 18:39 ` Vivek Goyal
2020-01-16 19:09 ` Dan Williams
2020-01-16 19:23 ` Vivek Goyal
2020-02-11 17:33 ` Vivek Goyal
2020-01-15 9:03 ` Jan Kara
2019-08-21 17:57 ` [PATCH 02/19] dax: Pass dax_dev to dax_writeback_mapping_range() Vivek Goyal
2019-08-26 11:53 ` Christoph Hellwig
2019-08-26 20:33 ` Vivek Goyal
2019-08-26 20:58 ` Vivek Goyal
2019-08-26 21:33 ` Dan Williams
2019-08-28 6:58 ` Christoph Hellwig
2020-01-03 14:12 ` Vivek Goyal
2020-01-03 18:12 ` Dan Williams
2020-01-03 18:18 ` Dan Williams
2020-01-03 18:33 ` Vivek Goyal
2020-01-03 19:30 ` Dan Williams
2020-01-03 18:43 ` Vivek Goyal
2019-08-27 13:45 ` Jan Kara
2019-08-21 17:57 ` [PATCH 03/19] virtio: Add get_shm_region method Vivek Goyal
2019-08-21 17:57 ` [PATCH 04/19] virtio: Implement get_shm_region for PCI transport Vivek Goyal
2019-08-26 1:43 ` [Virtio-fs] " piaojun
2019-08-26 13:06 ` Vivek Goyal
2019-08-27 9:41 ` piaojun
2019-08-27 8:34 ` Cornelia Huck
2019-08-27 8:46 ` Cornelia Huck
2019-08-27 11:53 ` Vivek Goyal
2019-08-21 17:57 ` [PATCH 05/19] virtio: Implement get_shm_region for MMIO transport Vivek Goyal
2019-08-27 8:39 ` Cornelia Huck
2019-08-27 11:54 ` Vivek Goyal
2019-08-21 17:57 ` [PATCH 06/19] fuse, dax: add fuse_conn->dax_dev field Vivek Goyal
2019-08-21 17:57 ` [PATCH 07/19] virtio_fs, dax: Set up virtio_fs dax_device Vivek Goyal
2019-08-21 17:57 ` [PATCH 08/19] fuse: Keep a list of free dax memory ranges Vivek Goyal
2019-08-21 17:57 ` [PATCH 09/19] fuse: implement FUSE_INIT map_alignment field Vivek Goyal
2019-08-21 17:57 ` [PATCH 10/19] fuse: Introduce setupmapping/removemapping commands Vivek Goyal
2019-08-21 17:57 ` [PATCH 11/19] fuse, dax: Implement dax read/write operations Vivek Goyal
2019-08-21 19:49 ` Liu Bo
2019-08-22 12:59 ` Vivek Goyal
2019-08-21 17:57 ` [PATCH 12/19] fuse, dax: add DAX mmap support Vivek Goyal
2019-08-21 17:57 ` [PATCH 13/19] fuse: Define dax address space operations Vivek Goyal
2019-08-21 17:57 ` [PATCH 14/19] fuse, dax: Take ->i_mmap_sem lock during dax page fault Vivek Goyal
2019-08-21 17:57 ` [PATCH 15/19] fuse: Maintain a list of busy elements Vivek Goyal
2019-08-21 17:57 ` [PATCH 16/19] dax: Create a range version of dax_layout_busy_page() Vivek Goyal
2019-08-21 17:57 ` [PATCH 17/19] fuse: Add logic to free up a memory range Vivek Goyal
2019-08-21 17:57 ` [PATCH 18/19] fuse: Release file in process context Vivek Goyal
2019-08-21 17:57 ` [PATCH 19/19] fuse: Take inode lock for dax inode truncation Vivek Goyal
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