Re: [PATCH] dax, pmem: add support for msync

[Boaz Harrosh <boaz@plexistor.com>]

On 09/02/2015 12:37 PM, Boaz Harrosh wrote:
>>  
>> +               /*
>> +                * Make sure that for VM_MIXEDMAP VMA has both
>> +                * vm_ops->page_mkwrite and vm_ops->pfn_mkwrite or has none.
>> +                */
>> +               if ((vma->vm_ops->page_mkwrite || vma->vm_ops->pfn_mkwrite) &&
>> +                               vma->vm_flags & VM_MIXEDMAP) {
>> +                       VM_BUG_ON_VMA(!vma->vm_ops->page_mkwrite, vma);
>> +                       VM_BUG_ON_VMA(!vma->vm_ops->pfn_mkwrite, vma);
> 
> BTW: the page_mkwrite is used for reading of holes that put zero-pages at the radix tree.
>      One can just map a single global zero-page in pfn-mode for that.
> 
> Kirill Hi. Please don't make these BUG_ONs its counter productive believe me.
> Please make them WARN_ON_ONCE() it is not a crashing bug to work like this.
> (Actually it is not a bug at all in some cases, but we can relax that when a user
>  comes up)
> 
> Thanks
> Boaz
> 

Second thought I do not like this patch. This is why we have xftests for, the fact of it
is that test 080 catches this. For me this is enough.

An FS developer should test his code, and worst case we help him on ML, like we did
in this case.

Thanks
Boaz

>> +               }
>>                 addr = vma->vm_start;
>>                 vm_flags = vma->vm_flags;
>>         } else if (vm_flags & VM_SHARED) {
>>
>