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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: Shiyang Ruan <ruansy.fnst@fujitsu.com>
Cc: <linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org>, <nvdimm@lists.linux.dev>,
	<linux-xfs@vger.kernel.org>, <dan.j.williams@intel.com>,
	<willy@infradead.org>, <jack@suse.cz>, <djwong@kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] fsdax: force clear dirty mark if CoW
Date: Fri, 24 Mar 2023 12:42:42 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20230324124242.c881cf384ab8a37716850413@linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1679653680-2-1-git-send-email-ruansy.fnst@fujitsu.com>

On Fri, 24 Mar 2023 10:28:00 +0000 Shiyang Ruan <ruansy.fnst@fujitsu.com> wrote:

> XFS allows CoW on non-shared extents to combat fragmentation[1].  The
> old non-shared extent could be mwrited before, its dax entry is marked
> dirty.  To be able to delete this entry, clear its dirty mark before
> invalidate_inode_pages2_range().

What are the user-visible runtime effects of this flaw?

Are we able to identify a Fixes: target for this?  Perhaps
f80e1668888f3 ("fsdax: invalidate pages when CoW")?

  reply	other threads:[~2023-03-24 19:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-03-24 10:28 [PATCH] fsdax: force clear dirty mark if CoW Shiyang Ruan
2023-03-24 19:42 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2023-03-27  3:19   ` Shiyang Ruan
2023-03-27 20:24     ` Andrew Morton

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