Re: [PATCH v5] mm, dax: fix DAX deadlocks

[Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>]

On Wed, Oct 07, 2015 at 04:58:49PM -0600, Ross Zwisler wrote:
> The following two locking commits in the DAX code:
> 
> commit 843172978bb9 ("dax: fix race between simultaneous faults")
> commit 46c043ede471 ("mm: take i_mmap_lock in unmap_mapping_range() for DAX")
> 
> introduced a number of deadlocks and other issues which need to be fixed
> for the v4.3 kernel. The list of issues in DAX after these commits (some
> newly introduced by the commits, some preexisting) can be found here:
> 
> https://lkml.org/lkml/2015/9/25/602
> 
> This undoes most of the changes introduced by those two commits,
> essentially returning us to the DAX locking scheme that was used in v4.2.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Ross Zwisler <ross.zwisler@linux.intel.com>

I've run this through some testing, the deadlocks aren't present and
there don't appear to be any new regressions, so IMO this is fine to
go to Linus.

Tested-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>

Cheers,

Dave.
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Dave Chinner
david@fromorbit.com

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