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From: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com>
To: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org,
	linux-nvdimm@lists.01.org
Subject: Re: Problems with VM_MIXEDMAP removal from /proc/<pid>/smaps
Date: Tue, 09 Oct 2018 15:43:41 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <x49woqqykgi.fsf@segfault.boston.devel.redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20181002100531.GC4135@quack2.suse.cz> (Jan Kara's message of "Tue, 2 Oct 2018 12:05:31 +0200")

Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> writes:

> Hello,
>
> commit e1fb4a086495 "dax: remove VM_MIXEDMAP for fsdax and device dax" has
> removed VM_MIXEDMAP flag from DAX VMAs. Now our testing shows that in the
> mean time certain customer of ours started poking into /proc/<pid>/smaps
> and looks at VMA flags there and if VM_MIXEDMAP is missing among the VMA
> flags, the application just fails to start complaining that DAX support is
> missing in the kernel. The question now is how do we go about this?
>
> Strictly speaking, this is a userspace visible regression (as much as I
> think that application poking into VMA flags at this level is just too
> bold). Is there any precedens in handling similar issues with smaps which
> really exposes a lot of information that is dependent on kernel
> implementation details?
>
> I have attached a patch that is an obvious "fix" for the issue - just fake
> VM_MIXEDMAP flag in smaps. But I'm open to other suggestions...

Hi, Jan,

I'm intrigued by the use case.  Do I understand you correctly that the
database in question does not intend to make data persistent from
userspace?  In other words, fsync/msync system calls are being issued by
the database?

I guess what I'm really after is a statement of requirements or
expectations.  It would be great if you could convince the database
developer to engage in this discussion directly.

Cheers,
Jeff
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  parent reply	other threads:[~2018-10-09 19:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 45+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-10-02 10:05 Problems with VM_MIXEDMAP removal from /proc/<pid>/smaps Jan Kara
2018-10-02 10:50 ` Michal Hocko
2018-10-02 13:32   ` Jan Kara
2018-10-02 12:10 ` Johannes Thumshirn
2018-10-02 14:20   ` Johannes Thumshirn
2018-10-02 14:45     ` Christoph Hellwig
2018-10-02 15:01       ` Johannes Thumshirn
2018-10-02 15:06         ` Christoph Hellwig
2018-10-04 10:09           ` Johannes Thumshirn
2018-10-05  6:25             ` Christoph Hellwig
2018-10-05  6:35               ` Johannes Thumshirn
2018-10-06  1:17                 ` Dan Williams
2018-10-14 15:47                   ` Dan Williams
2018-10-17 20:01                     ` Dan Williams
2018-10-18 17:43                       ` Jan Kara
2018-10-18 19:10                         ` Dan Williams
2018-10-19  3:01                           ` Dave Chinner
2018-10-02 14:29   ` Jan Kara
2018-10-02 14:37     ` Christoph Hellwig
2018-10-02 14:44       ` Johannes Thumshirn
2018-10-02 14:52         ` Christoph Hellwig
2018-10-02 15:31           ` Jan Kara
2018-10-02 20:18             ` Dan Williams
2018-10-03 12:50               ` Jan Kara
2018-10-03 14:38                 ` Dan Williams
2018-10-03 15:06                   ` Jan Kara
2018-10-03 15:13                     ` Dan Williams
2018-10-03 16:44                       ` Jan Kara
2018-10-03 21:13                         ` Dan Williams
2018-10-04 10:04                         ` Johannes Thumshirn
2018-10-02 15:07       ` Jan Kara
2018-10-17 20:23     ` Jeff Moyer
2018-10-18  0:25       ` Dave Chinner
2018-10-18 14:55         ` Jan Kara
2018-10-19  0:43           ` Dave Chinner
2018-10-30  6:30             ` Dan Williams
2018-10-30 22:49               ` Dave Chinner
2018-10-30 22:59                 ` Dan Williams
2018-10-31  5:59                 ` y-goto
2018-11-01 23:00                   ` Dave Chinner
2018-11-02  1:43                     ` y-goto
2018-10-18 21:05         ` Jeff Moyer
2018-10-09 19:43 ` Jeff Moyer [this message]
2018-10-16  8:25   ` Jan Kara
2018-10-16 12:35     ` Jeff Moyer

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