From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail-wi0-f171.google.com (mail-wi0-f171.google.com [209.85.212.171]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4A9DD6B0254 for ; Tue, 1 Sep 2015 07:10:24 -0400 (EDT) Received: by wibz8 with SMTP id z8so28203940wib.1 for ; Tue, 01 Sep 2015 04:10:23 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail-wi0-f177.google.com (mail-wi0-f177.google.com. [209.85.212.177]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id bu8si30231561wjc.189.2015.09.01.04.10.22 for (version=TLSv1.2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128/128); Tue, 01 Sep 2015 04:10:23 -0700 (PDT) Received: by wicjd9 with SMTP id jd9so29036665wic.1 for ; Tue, 01 Sep 2015 04:10:22 -0700 (PDT) Date: Tue, 1 Sep 2015 14:10:20 +0300 From: "Kirill A. Shutemov" Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm, dax: VMA with vm_ops->pfn_mkwrite wants to be write-notified Message-ID: <20150901111020.GA7820@node.dhcp.inet.fi> References: <1441102961-68041-1-git-send-email-kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com> <55E583E2.9000200@plexistor.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <55E583E2.9000200@plexistor.com> Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: To: Boaz Harrosh Cc: "Kirill A. Shutemov" , Andrew Morton , Matthew Wilcox , linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-nvdimm@lists.01.org, Yigal Korman , Jan Kara , Dave Chinner On Tue, Sep 01, 2015 at 01:54:26PM +0300, Boaz Harrosh wrote: > On 09/01/2015 01:22 PM, Kirill A. Shutemov wrote: > > For VM_PFNMAP and VM_MIXEDMAP we use vm_ops->pfn_mkwrite instead of > > vm_ops->page_mkwrite to notify abort write access. This means we want > > vma->vm_page_prot to be write-protected if the VMA provides this vm_ops. > > > > Hi Kirill > > I will test with this right away and ACK on this. > > Hmm so are you saying we might be missing some buffer modifications right now. > > What would be a theoretical scenario that will cause these missed events? On writable mapping with vm_ops->pfn_mkwrite, but without vm_ops->page_mkwrite: read fault followed by write access to the pfn. Writable pte will be set up on read fault and write fault will not be generated. I found it examining Dave's complain on generic/080: http://lkml.kernel.org/g/20150831233803.GO3902@dastard Although I don't think it's the reason. > I would like to put a test in our test rigs that should fail today and this > patch fixes. > > [In our system every modified pmem block is also RDMAed to a remote > pmem for HA, a missed modification will make the two copies unsynced] It shouldn't be a problem for ext2/ext4 as they provide both pfn_mkwrite and page_mkwrite. -- Kirill A. Shutemov -- 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