[PATCH 3/8] dax: expose __dax_fault for filesystems with locking constraints

Dave Chinner
2015-03-24T10:51:23Z

From: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>

Some filesystems cannot call dax_fault() directly because they have
different locking and/or allocation constraints in the page fault IO
path. To handle this, we need to follow the same model as the
generic block_page_mkwrite code, where the internals are exposed via
__block_page_mkwrite() so that filesystems can wrap the correct
locking and operations around the outside.

This is loosely based on a patch originally from Matthew Willcox.
Unlike the original patch, it does not change ext4 code, error
returns or unwritten extent conversion handling. It also adds a
__dax_mkwrite() wrapper for .page_mkwrite implementations to do the
right thing, too.

Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
---
fs/dax.c | 15 +++++++++++++--
include/linux/fs.h | 5 ++++-
2 files changed, 17 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/dax.c b/fs/dax.c
index 431ec2b..0121f7d 100644
--- a/fs/dax.c
+++ b/fs/dax.c
@@ -313,7 +313,17 @@ static int dax_insert_mapping(struct inode *inode, struct buffer_head *bh,
return error;
}

-static int do_dax_fault(struct vm_area_struct *vma, struct vm_fault *vmf,
+/**
+ * __dax_fault - handle a page fault on a DAX file
+ * @vma: The virtual memory area where the fault occurred
+ * @vmf: The description of the fault
+ * @get_block: The filesystem method used to translate file offsets to blocks
+ *
+ * When a page fault occurs, filesystems may call this helper in their
+ * fault handler for DAX files. __dax_fault() assumes the caller has done all
+ * the necessary locking for the page fault to proceed successfully.
+ */
+int __dax_fault(struct vm_area_struct *vma, struct vm_fault *vmf,
get_block_t get_block, dax_iodone_t complete_unwritten)
{
struct file *file = vma->vm_file;
@@ -440,6 +450,7 @@ static int do_dax_fault(struct vm_area_struct *vma, struct vm_fault *vmf,
}
goto out;
}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(__dax_fault);

/**
* dax_fault - handle a page fault on a DAX file
@@ -460,7 +471,7 @@ int dax_fault(struct vm_area_struct *vma, struct vm_fault *vmf,
sb_start_pagefault(sb);
file_update_time(vma->vm_file);
}
- result = do_dax_fault(vma, vmf, get_block, complete_unwritten);
+ result = __dax_fault(vma, vmf, get_block, complete_unwritten);
if (vmf->flags & FAULT_FLAG_WRITE)
sb_end_pagefault(sb);

diff --git a/include/linux/fs.h b/include/linux/fs.h
index 82100ae..7e5a2d6 100644
--- a/include/linux/fs.h
+++ b/include/linux/fs.h
@@ -2606,7 +2606,10 @@ int dax_zero_page_range(struct inode *, loff_t from, unsigned len, get_block_t);
int dax_truncate_page(struct inode *, loff_t from, get_block_t);
int dax_fault(struct vm_area_struct *, struct vm_fault *, get_block_t,
dax_iodone_t);
-#define dax_mkwrite(vma, vmf, gb, iod) dax_fault(vma, vmf, gb, iod)
+int __dax_fault(struct vm_area_struct *, struct vm_fault *, get_block_t,
+ dax_iodone_t);
+#define dax_mkwrite(vma, vmf, gb, iod) dax_fault(vma, vmf, gb, iod)
+#define __dax_mkwrite(vma, vmf, gb, iod) __dax_fault(vma, vmf, gb, iod)

#ifdef CONFIG_BLOCK
typedef void (dio_submit_t)(int rw, struct bio *bio, struct inode *inode,
--
2.0.0