Re: [PATCH v2 18/30] virtio_fs, dax: Set up virtio_fs dax_device

Vivek Goyal
2019-07-18T13:15:39Z

On Wed, Jul 17, 2019 at 07:27:25PM +0200, Halil Pasic wrote:
> On Wed, 15 May 2019 15:27:03 -0400
> Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com> wrote:
>
> > From: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
> >
> > Setup a dax device.
> >
> > Use the shm capability to find the cache entry and map it.
> >
> > The DAX window is accessed by the fs/dax.c infrastructure and must have
> > struct pages (at least on x86). Use devm_memremap_pages() to map the
> > DAX window PCI BAR and allocate struct page.
> >
>
> Sorry for being this late. I don't see any more recent version so I will
> comment here.
>
> I'm trying to figure out how is this supposed to work on s390. My concern
> is, that on s390 PCI memory needs to be accessed by special
> instructions. This is taken care of by the stuff defined in
> arch/s390/include/asm/io.h. E.g. we 'override' __raw_writew so it uses
> the appropriate s390 instruction. However if the code does not use the
> linux abstractions for accessing PCI memory, but assumes it can be
> accessed like RAM, we have a problem.
>
> Looking at this patch, it seems to me, that we might end up with exactly
> the case described. For example AFAICT copy_to_iter() (3) resolves to
> the function in lib/iov_iter.c which does not seem to cater for s390
> oddities.
>
> I didn't have the time to investigate this properly, and since virtio-fs
> is virtual, we may be able to get around what is otherwise a
> limitation on s390. My understanding of these areas is admittedly
> shallow, and since I'm not sure I'll have much more time to
> invest in the near future I decided to raise concern.
>
> Any opinions?

Hi Halil,

I don't understand s390 and how PCI works there as well. Is there any
other transport we can use there to map IO memory directly and access
using DAX?

BTW, is DAX supported for s390.

I am also hoping somebody who knows better can chip in. Till that time,
we could still use virtio-fs on s390 without DAX.

Thanks
Vivek