From: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: linux-nvdimm <linux-nvdimm@lists.01.org>,
linux-xfs <linux-xfs@vger.kernel.org>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 00/12] vfio, dax: prevent long term filesystem-dax pins and other fixes
Date: Fri, 2 Mar 2018 18:19:16 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAPcyv4iZ3QCR5qjvEdBEZ3PikEujJbWK62TiKoceEoG2N+dUzw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAPcyv4jM=N=wjnK4gWxHu0Fk9VXnfReLf6shW6mbzvf3sahjrQ@mail.gmail.com>
On Fri, Mar 2, 2018 at 3:49 PM, Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 2, 2018 at 2:57 PM, Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> wrote:
>> On Fri, Mar 02, 2018 at 02:21:40PM -0800, Dan Williams wrote:
>>> They are indeed a hodge-podge. The problem is that the current
>>> IS_DAX() is broken. So I'd like to propose fixing IS_DAX() with
>>> IS_FSDAX() + IS_DEVDAX() for 4.16-rc4 and queue up these wider reworks
>>> you propose for the next merge window.
>>
>> The only thing broken about IS_DAX are the code elimination games
>> based on the CONFIG_* flags. Remove those and just add proper stubs
>> for the dax routines and everything will be fine for now until we can
>> kill that inode flag.
>>
>> IS_FSDAX and IS_DEVDAX on the other hand are a giant mess that isn't
>> helping anyone.
>
> Ok, I'll take another shot at something suitable for 4.16, but without
> these new helpers...
I'll drop patches 2-11 for now, and just get the high priority fixes
in for the next rc.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-03-03 2:19 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-03-02 3:53 [PATCH v5 00/12] vfio, dax: prevent long term filesystem-dax pins and other fixes Dan Williams
2018-03-02 3:53 ` [PATCH v5 01/12] dax: fix vma_is_fsdax() helper Dan Williams
2018-03-02 22:52 ` Christoph Hellwig
2018-03-02 3:53 ` [PATCH v5 02/12] dax: introduce IS_DEVDAX() and IS_FSDAX() Dan Williams
2018-03-02 17:45 ` Darrick J. Wong
2018-03-02 18:37 ` Dan Williams
2018-03-02 19:06 ` [PATCH v6] " Dan Williams
2018-03-02 19:58 ` Darrick J. Wong
2018-03-02 22:53 ` [PATCH v5 02/12] " Christoph Hellwig
2018-03-02 3:53 ` [PATCH v5 03/12] ext2, dax: finish implementing dax_sem helpers Dan Williams
2018-03-02 3:53 ` [PATCH v5 04/12] ext2, dax: define ext2_dax_*() infrastructure in all cases Dan Williams
2018-03-02 3:54 ` [PATCH v5 05/12] ext4, dax: define ext4_dax_*() " Dan Williams
2018-03-02 3:54 ` [PATCH v5 06/12] ext2, dax: replace IS_DAX() with IS_FSDAX() Dan Williams
2018-03-02 3:54 ` [PATCH v5 07/12] ext4, " Dan Williams
2018-03-02 3:54 ` [PATCH v5 08/12] xfs, " Dan Williams
2018-03-02 17:46 ` Darrick J. Wong
2018-03-02 3:54 ` [PATCH v5 09/12] mm, dax: replace IS_DAX() with IS_DEVDAX() or IS_FSDAX() Dan Williams
2018-03-02 22:54 ` Christoph Hellwig
2018-03-02 3:54 ` [PATCH v5 10/12] fs, dax: kill IS_DAX() Dan Williams
2018-03-02 3:54 ` [PATCH v5 11/12] dax: fix S_DAX definition Dan Williams
2018-03-02 3:54 ` [PATCH v5 12/12] vfio: disable filesystem-dax page pinning Dan Williams
2018-03-02 22:10 ` [PATCH v5 00/12] vfio, dax: prevent long term filesystem-dax pins and other fixes Christoph Hellwig
2018-03-02 22:21 ` Dan Williams
2018-03-02 22:57 ` Christoph Hellwig
2018-03-02 23:49 ` Dan Williams
2018-03-03 2:19 ` Dan Williams [this message]
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