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From: Jinyoung Choi <j-young.choi@samsung.com>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: "song@kernel.org" <song@kernel.org>,
	"linux-raid@vger.kernel.org" <linux-raid@vger.kernel.org>,
	"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	"pmenzel@molgen.mpg.de" <pmenzel@molgen.mpg.de>
Subject: RE:(2) [PATCH v2] md/bitmap: Avoid protection error writing bitmap page with block integrity
Date: Mon, 31 Jul 2023 16:49:02 +0900	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20230731074902epcms2p5383ba1e030b5c79730fa14393bb1cdb5@epcms2p5> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ZMdiEavzzRwAFjPq@infradead.org>

> On Thu, Jul 20, 2023 at 06:29:57PM +0900, Jinyoung Choi wrote:
> > Changing the bitmap page is also possible on the page where the DMA is
> > being performed or scheduled in the MD.
> 
> Are you guys actually using the whacky bitmap feature?  If so, this
> really is the least of our problems and you need to invest some real
> work into it to get it off ->bmap and into using ->read_iter and
> ->write_iter.  Right now Song has a series from me queued up to
> deprecated it.
> 
> I also don't think a simple wait for existing writers prevents you
> from other modifications, but maybe I'm issing something.

Hi, Christoph.

I think the way to write bitmap page like you should be changed.
This patch is a simple workaround in the current system.

I will check the patches you provided for bitmap processing.

Thank you for your review.

Best Regards,
Jinyoung.

      reply	other threads:[~2023-07-31  7:49 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
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2023-07-20  9:29 ` [PATCH v2] md/bitmap: Avoid protection error writing bitmap page with block integrity Jinyoung Choi
2023-07-31  7:26   ` Christoph Hellwig
2023-07-31  7:49     ` Jinyoung Choi [this message]

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