From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Date: Tue, 18 Oct 2016 13:20:13 -0600 From: Ross Zwisler Subject: Re: [PATCH 18/20] dax: Make cache flushing protected by entry lock Message-ID: <20161018192013.GE7796@linux.intel.com> References: <1474992504-20133-1-git-send-email-jack@suse.cz> <1474992504-20133-19-git-send-email-jack@suse.cz> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1474992504-20133-19-git-send-email-jack@suse.cz> Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org To: Jan Kara Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-nvdimm@lists.01.org, Dan Williams , Ross Zwisler , "Kirill A. Shutemov" List-ID: On Tue, Sep 27, 2016 at 06:08:22PM +0200, Jan Kara wrote: > Currently, flushing of caches for DAX mappings was ignoring entry lock. > So far this was ok (modulo a bug that a difference in entry lock could > cause cache flushing to be mistakenly skipped) but in the following > patches we will write-protect PTEs on cache flushing and clear dirty > tags. For that we will need more exclusion. So do cache flushing under > an entry lock. This allows us to remove one lock-unlock pair of > mapping->tree_lock as a bonus. > > Signed-off-by: Jan Kara > @@ -716,15 +736,13 @@ static int dax_writeback_one(struct block_device *bdev, > } > > wb_cache_pmem(dax.addr, dax.size); > - > - spin_lock_irq(&mapping->tree_lock); > - radix_tree_tag_clear(page_tree, index, PAGECACHE_TAG_TOWRITE); > - spin_unlock_irq(&mapping->tree_lock); > - unmap: > +unmap: > dax_unmap_atomic(bdev, &dax); > + put_locked_mapping_entry(mapping, index, entry); > return ret; > > - unlock: > +put_unlock: I know there's an ongoing debate about this, but can you please stick a space in front of the labels to make the patches pretty & to be consistent with the rest of the DAX code? Reviewed-by: Ross Zwisler -- 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