From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: From: Toshi Kani To: dan.j.williams@intel.com, jack@suse.cz, david@fromorbit.com, viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk Cc: axboe@fb.com, hch@infradead.org, boaz@plexistor.com, tytso@mit.edu, adilger.kernel@dilger.ca, ross.zwisler@linux.intel.com, toshi.kani@hpe.com, micah.parrish@hpe.com, linux-nvdimm@lists.01.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: [PATCH v3 5/5] xfs: Add alignment check for DAX mount Date: Thu, 5 May 2016 18:29:56 -0600 Message-Id: <1462494596-20938-6-git-send-email-toshi.kani@hpe.com> In-Reply-To: <1462494596-20938-1-git-send-email-toshi.kani@hpe.com> References: <1462494596-20938-1-git-send-email-toshi.kani@hpe.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: When a partition is not aligned by 4KB, mount -o dax succeeds, but any read/write access to the filesystem fails, except for metadata update. Call bdev_supports_dax() to perform proper precondition checks which includes this partition alignment check. Signed-off-by: Toshi Kani Cc: Dave Chinner Cc: Dan Williams Cc: Ross Zwisler Cc: Christoph Hellwig Cc: Boaz Harrosh --- fs/xfs/xfs_super.c | 12 +++++------- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-) diff --git a/fs/xfs/xfs_super.c b/fs/xfs/xfs_super.c index 187e14b..cc177da 100644 --- a/fs/xfs/xfs_super.c +++ b/fs/xfs/xfs_super.c @@ -1558,14 +1558,12 @@ xfs_fs_fill_super( if (mp->m_flags & XFS_MOUNT_DAX) { xfs_warn(mp, - "DAX enabled. Warning: EXPERIMENTAL, use at your own risk"); - if (sb->s_blocksize != PAGE_SIZE) { - xfs_alert(mp, - "Filesystem block size invalid for DAX Turning DAX off."); - mp->m_flags &= ~XFS_MOUNT_DAX; - } else if (!sb->s_bdev->bd_disk->fops->direct_access) { + "DAX enabled. Warning: EXPERIMENTAL, use at your own risk"); + + error = bdev_supports_dax(sb, sb->s_blocksize); + if (error) { xfs_alert(mp, - "Block device does not support DAX Turning DAX off."); + "DAX unsupported by block device. Turning off DAX."); mp->m_flags &= ~XFS_MOUNT_DAX; } }