Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 30 Sep 2015 13:22:55 +1000 | From | Dave Chinner <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] dax: fix deadlock in __dax_fault |
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On Tue, Sep 29, 2015 at 08:04:21PM -0600, Ross Zwisler wrote: > On Tue, Sep 29, 2015 at 12:44:58PM +1000, Dave Chinner wrote: > <> > > Already testing a kernel with those reverted. My current DAX patch > > stack is (bottom is first commit in stack): > > > > f672ae4 xfs: add ->pfn_mkwrite support for DAX > > 6855c23 xfs: remove DAX complete_unwritten callback > > e074bdf Revert "dax: fix race between simultaneous faults" > > 8ba0157 Revert "mm: take i_mmap_lock in unmap_mapping_range() for DAX" > > a2ce6a5 xfs: DAX does not use IO completion callbacks > > 246c52a xfs: update size during allocation for DAX > > 9d10e7b xfs: Don't use unwritten extents for DAX > > eaef807 xfs: factor out sector mapping. > > e7f2d50 xfs: introduce per-inode DAX enablement > > Dave, would you be willing to share these patches with me, even if they are > just RFC? I'm working through how to add equivalent support in both ext2 and > ext4, and a conceptual example in XFS would be really helpful.
When I have code that works properly and isn't fundamentally broken, I'll post it. Hopefully within the next day.
> Eric and Jan, if you guys have any spare cycles to help with the ext2/ext4 > bits, I certainly wouldn't say no. :)
ext2 already does the block zeroing in allocation, so it only needs locking help...
Cheers,
Dave. -- Dave Chinner david@fromorbit.com
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