From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from ipmail06.adl6.internode.on.net ([150.101.137.145]:1502 "EHLO ipmail06.adl6.internode.on.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756100AbcI1AUw (ORCPT ); Tue, 27 Sep 2016 20:20:52 -0400 Date: Wed, 28 Sep 2016 10:20:34 +1000 From: Dave Chinner To: Jan Kara Cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-nvdimm@lists.01.org, Dan Williams , Ross Zwisler Subject: Re: [PATCH 6/6] dax: Avoid page invalidation races and unnecessary radix tree traversals Message-ID: <20160928002034.GF9806@dastard> References: <1474994615-29553-1-git-send-email-jack@suse.cz> <1474994615-29553-7-git-send-email-jack@suse.cz> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1474994615-29553-7-git-send-email-jack@suse.cz> Sender: linux-fsdevel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Tue, Sep 27, 2016 at 06:43:35PM +0200, Jan Kara wrote: > @@ -1410,6 +1422,17 @@ iomap_dax_actor(struct inode *inode, loff_t pos, loff_t length, void *data, > if (WARN_ON_ONCE(iomap->type != IOMAP_MAPPED)) > return -EIO; > > + /* > + * Write can allocate block for an area which has a hole page mapped > + * into page tables. We have to tear down these mappings so that data > + * written by write(2) is visible in mmap. > + */ > + if (iomap->flags & IOMAP_F_NEW && inode->i_mapping->nrpages) { gcc should be throwing warnings about that: if ((iomap->flags & IOMAP_F_NEW) && inode->i_mapping->nrpages) { Cheers, Dave. -- Dave Chinner david@fromorbit.com