Re: [PATCH v4 6/6] block: Update blkdev_dax_capable() for consistency

From: Toshi Kani <toshi.kani@hpe.com>
To: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>, david <david@fromorbit.com>,
	Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>, Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>,
	Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
	Boaz Harrosh <boaz@plexistor.com>, Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>,
	Andreas Dilger <adilger.kernel@dilger.ca>,
	Ross Zwisler <ross.zwisler@linux.intel.com>,
	micah.parrish@hpe.com,
	"linux-nvdimm@lists.01.org" <linux-nvdimm@lists.01.org>,
	linux-fsdevel <linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org>,
	linux-block@vger.kernel.org,
	"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Vishal L Verma <vishal.l.verma@intel.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 6/6] block: Update blkdev_dax_capable() for consistency
Date: Tue, 10 May 2016 15:36:26 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1462916186.27137.133.camel@hpe.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAPcyv4jZqr3Grst5tHLOh9OnREBh+DzMKqQhU6qGpb1dASgxYQ@mail.gmail.com>

On Tue, 2016-05-10 at 12:49 -0700, Dan Williams wrote:
> On Tue, May 10, 2016 at 9:23 AM, Toshi Kani <toshi.kani@hpe.com> wrote:
> > 
> > blkdev_dax_capable() is similar to bdev_dax_supported(), but needs
> > to remain as a separate interface for checking dax capability of
> > a raw block device.
> > 
> > Rename and relocate blkdev_dax_capable() to keep them maintained
> > consistently, and call bdev_direct_access() for the dax capability
> > check.
> > 
> > There is no change in the behavior.
 :
> > diff --git a/block/ioctl.c b/block/ioctl.c
> > index 4ff1f92..7eeda07 100644
> > --- a/block/ioctl.c
> > +++ b/block/ioctl.c
> > @@ -4,7 +4,6 @@
> >  #include <linux/gfp.h>
> >  #include <linux/blkpg.h>
> >  #include <linux/hdreg.h>
> > -#include <linux/badblocks.h>
> >  #include <linux/backing-dev.h>
> >  #include <linux/fs.h>
> >  #include <linux/blktrace_api.h>
> > @@ -407,35 +406,6 @@ static inline int is_unrecognized_ioctl(int ret)
> >                 ret == -ENOIOCTLCMD;
> >  }
> > 
> > -#ifdef CONFIG_FS_DAX
> > -bool blkdev_dax_capable(struct block_device *bdev)
> > -{
> > -       struct gendisk *disk = bdev->bd_disk;
> > -
> > -       if (!disk->fops->direct_access)
> > -               return false;
> > -
> > -       /*
> > -        * If the partition is not aligned on a page boundary, we can't
> > -        * do dax I/O to it.
> > -        */
> > -       if ((bdev->bd_part->start_sect % (PAGE_SIZE / 512))
> > -                       || (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
>
> This will collide with my pending change to revert raw block device
> dax support, and also with Vishal's DAX error handling changes.  For
> coordination purposes I'm thining this should all go on top of the
> branch that Vishal is putting together with the dax zeroing changes
> from Jan and Christoph as well.

This patch does not depend on the rest of the series, so it can be handled
separately.  There is a minor conflict -- bdev_dax_capable() is put under
bdev_dax_supported() in the same file.  This should be easy to resolve, but
let me know if you need me to merge it up.

Thanks,
-Toshi