Re: [PATCH v2 1/2] fs, xfs: perform dax_device lookup at mount

[Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>]

On Tue, Aug 29, 2017 at 2:31 PM, Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 29, 2017 at 2:26 PM, Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> wrote:
>> Call me nitpicky, but..
>>
>> First this really should be three patches, one for the DAX code, one
>> for the VFS code and one for XFS.  The DAX and XFS bits looks fine to
>> me:
>>
>> Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
>>
>> But I'm a little worried about stuffing more DAX knowledge into the
>> block mount_bdev helper.  For now it's probably ok as everything
>> else would involve a lot of refactoring and/or duplication, but
>> I'm generally not too happy about it.
>
> I think this is why we ended up with calling dax_get_by_host() in
> ->iomap_begin() because the mount_bdev() touches I started with back
> when this was first introduced were not very palatable. I agree with
> the direction to move to mount_dax() in the future. I can respin this
> into three patches and a TODO comment about how we want to kill the
> dax knowledge in mount_bdev() going forward.

Actually, why not just do this directly in xfs_fs_mount()? I think I
can refactor this to not touch mount_bdev() and put all the details in
the per-fs mount/umount paths.