From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Date: Wed, 14 Dec 2016 07:01:57 +1100 From: Dave Chinner To: Jan Kara Cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, Ross Zwisler , linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org, Johannes Weiner , Dan Williams , linux-nvdimm@lists.01.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/6 v3] dax: Page invalidation fixes Message-ID: <20161213200157.GA4326@dastard> References: <20161212164708.23244-1-jack@suse.cz> <20161213115209.GG15362@quack2.suse.cz> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20161213115209.GG15362@quack2.suse.cz> Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: On Tue, Dec 13, 2016 at 12:52:09PM +0100, Jan Kara wrote: > On Mon 12-12-16 17:47:02, Jan Kara wrote: > > Hello, > > > > this is the third revision of my fixes of races when invalidating hole pages in > > DAX mappings. See changelogs for details. The series is based on my patches to > > write-protect DAX PTEs which are currently carried in mm tree. This is a hard > > dependency because we really need to closely track dirtiness (and cleanness!) > > of radix tree entries in DAX mappings in order to avoid discarding valid dirty > > bits leading to missed cache flushes on fsync(2). > > > > The tests have passed xfstests for xfs and ext4 in DAX and non-DAX mode. > > > > Johannes, are you OK with patch 2/6 in its current form? I'd like to push these > > patches to some tree once DAX write-protection patches are merged. I'm hoping > > to get at least first three patches merged for 4.10-rc2... Thanks! > > OK, with the final ack from Johannes and since this is mostly DAX stuff, > can we take this through NVDIMM tree and push to Linus either late in the > merge window or for -rc2? These patches require my DAX patches sitting in mm > tree so they can be included in any git tree only once those patches land > in Linus' tree (which may happen only once Dave and Ted push out their > stuff - this is the most convoluted merge window I'd ever to deal with ;-)... And I'm waiting on Jens and the block tree before I send Linus a pulllreq for all the stuff I have queued because of the conflicts in the iomap-direct IO patches I've also got in the XFS tree... :/ Cheers, Dave. -- Dave Chinner david@fromorbit.com -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: email@kvack.org