Re: [PATCH v2 00/20] get_user_pages() for dax mappings

[Logan Gunthorpe <logang@deltatee.com>]

Hey,

On 03/12/15 07:16 PM, Dan Williams wrote:
> I could loosen the restriction a bit to allow one unaligned mapping
> per section.  However, if another mapping request came along that
> tried to map a free part of the section it would fail because the code
> depends on a  "1 dev_pagemap per section" relationship.  Seems an ok
> compromise to me...

Sure, that would work fine for us. I think it would be very unusual ;to 
need to map two adjacent BARs in this way.

> Could you share the test setup for this one so I can try to reproduce?
>   As far as I can see this looks like an ext4 internals issue.

Ok, well it's somewhat specialized and I can't run the failing test in a 
VM because it requires infiniband hardware. We have a PCI card that has 
a large memory backed BAR space. To use that with zone_device we have a 
kernel patch that allows doing the zone device mapping with io memory 
that has write combining enabled. Then we have an out of tree kernel 
module that creates a block device from the PCI bar (similar to the pmem 
code).

I could send you all of that, assuming you have a suitable PCI device. 
However, I'm hoping none of the above has anything to do with the failure.

The test that is failing is a very simple RDMA test with an mmaped DAX 
file. So hopefully it has nothing to do with the fact that a PCI device 
backs it. So if you have some IB hardware available you could try our 
simple test code from here:

https://github.com/sbates130272/io_peer_mem/tree/master/test

The server must be run with no arguments. Then the client can be run 
with the address of the server as the first argument and a file that's 
in a DAX fs (with a size greater than 4MB). The client and server should 
be able to run on the same node, if necessary.

Let me know if this helps or if there's anything else I can provide. I 
can probably dig into it some more on Monday on our setup.

Logan

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