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* [PATCH v3 0/6] DAX fixes, move flushing calls to FS
@ 2016-02-17  3:34 Ross Zwisler
  2016-02-17  3:34 ` [PATCH v3 1/6] block: disable block device DAX by default Ross Zwisler
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  0 siblings, 6 replies; 16+ messages in thread
From: Ross Zwisler @ 2016-02-17  3:34 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: linux-kernel
  Cc: Jens Axboe, Jeff Layton, Theodore Ts'o, linux-nvdimm,
	linux-block, Dan Williams, xfs, J. Bruce Fields, linux-mm,
	Andreas Dilger, Alexander Viro, Jan Kara, linux-fsdevel,
	Matthew Wilcox, Ross Zwisler, linux-ext4, Andrew Morton

This patch series fixes several issues with the current DAX code:

1) DAX is used by default on raw block devices that are capable of
supporting it.  This creates an issue because there are still uses of the
block device that use the page cache, and having one block device user
doing DAX I/O and another doing page cache I/O can lead to data corruption.

2) When S_DAX is set on an inode we assume that if there are pages attached
to the mapping (mapping->nrpages != 0), those pages are clean zero pages
that were used to service reads from holes.  This wasn't true in all cases.

3) ext4 online defrag combined with DAX I/O could lead to data corruption.

4) The DAX block/sector zeroing code needs a valid struct block_device,
which it wasn't always getting.

5) The DAX writeback code needs a valid struct block_device, which it
wasn't always getting.

6) The DAX writeback code needs to be called for sync(2) and syncfs(2).

The last patch in this series reenables the DAX I/O path for raw block
devices when they would otherwise be doing direct I/O.  It can be dropped
if it is too controversial.

Thank you to Dan Williams and Jan Kara for their code contributions to this
set.

A working tree can be found here:
https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/zwisler/linux.git/log/?h=fsync_bdev_v3

Dan Williams (2):
  block: disable block device DAX by default
  block: use dax_do_io() if blkdev_dax_capable()

Ross Zwisler (4):
  ext2, ext4: only set S_DAX for regular inodes
  ext4: Online defrag not supported with DAX
  dax: give DAX clearing code correct bdev
  dax: move writeback calls into the filesystems

 block/Kconfig          | 13 +++++++++++++
 block/ioctl.c          |  1 +
 fs/block_dev.c         | 22 +++++++++++++++++++---
 fs/dax.c               | 21 +++++++++++----------
 fs/ext2/inode.c        | 16 +++++++++++++---
 fs/ext4/inode.c        |  6 +++++-
 fs/ext4/ioctl.c        |  5 +++++
 fs/xfs/xfs_aops.c      |  6 +++++-
 fs/xfs/xfs_aops.h      |  1 +
 fs/xfs/xfs_bmap_util.c |  3 ++-
 include/linux/dax.h    |  8 +++++---
 include/linux/fs.h     | 31 +++++++++++++++++++++----------
 mm/filemap.c           | 12 ++++--------
 13 files changed, 105 insertions(+), 40 deletions(-)

-- 
2.5.0

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2016-02-17  3:34 [PATCH v3 0/6] DAX fixes, move flushing calls to FS Ross Zwisler
2016-02-17  3:34 ` [PATCH v3 1/6] block: disable block device DAX by default Ross Zwisler
2016-02-17 21:55   ` Jan Kara
2016-02-17  3:34 ` [PATCH v3 2/6] ext2, ext4: only set S_DAX for regular inodes Ross Zwisler
2016-02-17 21:33   ` Jan Kara
2016-02-17  3:34 ` [PATCH v3 3/6] ext4: Online defrag not supported with DAX Ross Zwisler
2016-02-17 21:34   ` Jan Kara
2016-02-17 21:50   ` Ross Zwisler
2016-02-17 22:10     ` Jan Kara
2016-02-18  0:12     ` Dave Chinner
2016-02-17  3:34 ` [PATCH v3 4/6] dax: give DAX clearing code correct bdev Ross Zwisler
2016-02-17 21:37   ` Jan Kara
2016-02-17  3:34 ` [PATCH v3 5/6] dax: move writeback calls into the filesystems Ross Zwisler
2016-02-17  3:34 ` [PATCH v3 6/6] block: use dax_do_io() if blkdev_dax_capable() Ross Zwisler
2016-02-17 21:54   ` Jan Kara
2016-02-17 22:18     ` Dan Williams

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