From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail-wi0-f169.google.com (mail-wi0-f169.google.com [209.85.212.169]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7F0F86B0254 for ; Wed, 2 Sep 2015 05:13:25 -0400 (EDT) Received: by wicge5 with SMTP id ge5so33193979wic.0 for ; Wed, 02 Sep 2015 02:13:24 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail-wi0-f169.google.com (mail-wi0-f169.google.com. [209.85.212.169]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id fx1si3214106wic.87.2015.09.02.02.13.23 for (version=TLSv1.2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128/128); Wed, 02 Sep 2015 02:13:24 -0700 (PDT) Received: by wicfx3 with SMTP id fx3so10373209wic.1 for ; Wed, 02 Sep 2015 02:13:23 -0700 (PDT) Date: Wed, 2 Sep 2015 12:13:21 +0300 From: "Kirill A. Shutemov" Subject: Re: [PATCH] dax, pmem: add support for msync Message-ID: <20150902091321.GA2323@node.dhcp.inet.fi> References: <1441047584-14664-1-git-send-email-ross.zwisler@linux.intel.com> <20150831233803.GO3902@dastard> <20150901100804.GA7045@node.dhcp.inet.fi> <20150901224922.GR3902@dastard> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20150901224922.GR3902@dastard> Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: To: Dave Chinner Cc: Ross Zwisler , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Alexander Viro , Andrew Morton , Christoph Hellwig , Dave Hansen , "H. Peter Anvin" , Hugh Dickins , Ingo Molnar , "Kirill A. Shutemov" , linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-nvdimm@lists.01.org, Matthew Wilcox , Peter Zijlstra , Thomas Gleixner , x86@kernel.org On Wed, Sep 02, 2015 at 08:49:22AM +1000, Dave Chinner wrote: > On Tue, Sep 01, 2015 at 01:08:04PM +0300, Kirill A. Shutemov wrote: > > On Tue, Sep 01, 2015 at 09:38:03AM +1000, Dave Chinner wrote: > > > On Mon, Aug 31, 2015 at 12:59:44PM -0600, Ross Zwisler wrote: > > > Even for DAX, msync has to call vfs_fsync_range() for the filesystem to commit > > > the backing store allocations to stable storage, so there's not > > > getting around the fact msync is the wrong place to be flushing > > > DAX mappings to persistent storage. > > > > Why? > > IIUC, msync() doesn't have any requirements wrt metadata, right? > > Of course it does. If the backing store allocation has not been > committed, then after a crash there will be a hole in file and > so it will read as zeroes regardless of what data was written and > flushed. Any reason why backing store allocation cannot be committed on *_mkwrite? > > > I pointed this out almost 6 months ago (i.e. that fsync was broken) > > > anf hinted at how to solve it. Fix fsync, and msync gets fixed for > > > free: > > > > > > https://lists.01.org/pipermail/linux-nvdimm/2015-March/000341.html > > > > > > I've also reported to Willy that DAX write page faults don't work > > > correctly, either. xfstests generic/080 exposes this: a read > > > from a page followed immediately by a write to that page does not > > > result in ->page_mkwrite being called on the write and so > > > backing store is not allocated for the page, nor are the timestamps > > > for the file updated. This will also result in fsync (and msync) > > > not working properly. > > > > Is that because XFS doesn't provide vm_ops->pfn_mkwrite? > > I didn't know that had been committed. I don't recall seeing a pull > request with that in it It went though -mm tree. > none of the XFS DAX patches conflicted > against it and there's been no runtime errors. I'll fix it up. > > As such, shouldn't there be a check in the VM (in ->mmap callers) > that if we have the vma is returned with VM_MIXEDMODE enabled that > ->pfn_mkwrite is not NULL? It's now clear to me that any filesystem > that sets VM_MIXEDMODE needs to support both page_mkwrite and > pfn_mkwrite, and such a check would have caught this immediately... I guess it's "both or none" case. We have VM_MIXEDMAP users who don't care about *_mkwrite. I'm not yet sure it would be always correct, but something like this will catch the XFS case, without false-positive on other stuff in my KVM setup: diff --git a/mm/mmap.c b/mm/mmap.c index 3f78bceefe5a..f2e29a541e14 100644 --- a/mm/mmap.c +++ b/mm/mmap.c @@ -1645,6 +1645,15 @@ unsigned long mmap_region(struct file *file, unsigned long addr, vma->vm_ops = &dummy_ops; } + /* + * 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); + } addr = vma->vm_start; vm_flags = vma->vm_flags; } else if (vm_flags & VM_SHARED) { -- 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