From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mga01.intel.com (mga01.intel.com [192.55.52.88]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by ml01.01.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id A522A2096109E for ; Fri, 1 Jun 2018 13:59:51 -0700 (PDT) Date: Fri, 1 Jun 2018 14:59:50 -0600 From: Ross Zwisler Subject: Re: [dm-devel] [PATCH v2 2/7] dax: change bdev_dax_supported() to support boolean returns Message-ID: <20180601205950.GA12821@linux.intel.com> References: <20180529195106.14268-1-ross.zwisler@linux.intel.com> <20180529195106.14268-3-ross.zwisler@linux.intel.com> <20180529212510.GJ30110@magnolia> <20180529220114.GA13948@linux.intel.com> <20180531191332.GB7825@magnolia> <20180531205206.GA12681@redhat.com> <20180531222645.GA6086@magnolia> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20180531222645.GA6086@magnolia> List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Errors-To: linux-nvdimm-bounces@lists.01.org Sender: "Linux-nvdimm" To: "Darrick J. Wong" Cc: Mike Snitzer , linux-nvdimm@lists.01.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-xfs@vger.kernel.org, dm-devel@redhat.com, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Thu, May 31, 2018 at 03:26:45PM -0700, Darrick J. Wong wrote: > On Thu, May 31, 2018 at 04:52:06PM -0400, Mike Snitzer wrote: > > On Thu, May 31 2018 at 3:13pm -0400, > > Darrick J. Wong wrote: > > > > > On Tue, May 29, 2018 at 04:01:14PM -0600, Ross Zwisler wrote: > > > > On Tue, May 29, 2018 at 02:25:10PM -0700, Darrick J. Wong wrote: > > > > > On Tue, May 29, 2018 at 01:51:01PM -0600, Ross Zwisler wrote: > > > > > > From: Dave Jiang > > > > > > > > > > > > The function return values are confusing with the way the function is > > > > > > named. We expect a true or false return value but it actually returns > > > > > > 0/-errno. This makes the code very confusing. Changing the return values > > > > > > to return a bool where if DAX is supported then return true and no DAX > > > > > > support returns false. > > > > > > > > > > > > Signed-off-by: Dave Jiang > > > > > > Signed-off-by: Ross Zwisler > > > > > > > > > > Looks ok, do you want me to pull the first two patches through the xfs > > > > > tree? > > > > > > > > > > Reviewed-by: Darrick J. Wong > > > > > > > > Thanks for the review. > > > > > > > > I'm not sure what's best. If you do that then Mike will need to have a DM > > > > branch for the rest of the series based on your stable commits, yea? > > > > > > > > Mike what would you prefer? > > > > > > I /was/ about to say that I would pull in the first two patches, but now > > > I can't get xfs to mount with pmem at all, and have no way of testing > > > this...? > > > > Once you get this sorted out, please feel free to pull in the first 2. > > Sorted. It'll be in Friday's for-next. Ross helped me bang on the pmem > devices w/ ndctl to enable fsdax mode and twist qemu until everything > worked properly. ;) For anyone else who would like to simulate persistent memory using QEMU, I've added some hints here: https://nvdimm.wiki.kernel.org/pmem_in_qemu _______________________________________________ Linux-nvdimm mailing list Linux-nvdimm@lists.01.org https://lists.01.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-nvdimm