Re: can we finally kill off CONFIG_FS_DAX_LIMITED

Jason Gunthorpe
2021-10-18T23:30:51Z

On Fri, Oct 15, 2021 at 01:22:41AM +0100, Joao Martins wrote:

> dev_pagemap_mapping_shift() does a lookup to figure out
> which order is the page table entry represents. is_zone_device_page()
> is already used to gate usage of dev_pagemap_mapping_shift(). I think
> this might be an artifact of the same issue as 3) in which PMDs/PUDs
> are represented with base pages and hence you can't do what the rest
> of the world does with:

This code is looks broken as written.

vma_address() relies on certain properties that I maybe DAX (maybe
even only FSDAX?) sets on its ZONE_DEVICE pages, and
dev_pagemap_mapping_shift() does not handle the -EFAULT return. It
will crash if a memory failure hits any other kind of ZONE_DEVICE
area.

I'm not sure the comment is correct anyhow:

/*
* Unmap the largest mapping to avoid breaking up
* device-dax mappings which are constant size. The
* actual size of the mapping being torn down is
* communicated in siginfo, see kill_proc()
*/
unmap_mapping_range(page->mapping, start, size, 0);

Beacuse for non PageAnon unmap_mapping_range() does either
zap_huge_pud(), __split_huge_pmd(), or zap_huge_pmd().

Despite it's name __split_huge_pmd() does not actually split, it will
call __split_huge_pmd_locked:

} else if (!(pmd_devmap(*pmd) || is_pmd_migration_entry(*pmd)))
goto out;
__split_huge_pmd_locked(vma, pmd, range.start, freeze);

Which does
if (!vma_is_anonymous(vma)) {
old_pmd = pmdp_huge_clear_flush_notify(vma, haddr, pmd);

Which is a zap, not split.

So I wonder if there is a reason to use anything other than 4k here
for DAX?

> tk->size_shift = page_shift(compound_head(p));
>
> ... as page_shift() would just return PAGE_SHIFT (as compound_order() is 0).

And what would be so wrong with memory failure doing this as a 4k
page?

Jason