linux-kernel - [PATCH v2 0/7] Fix DM DAX handling

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Date:   Tue, 29 May 2018 13:50:59 -0600
From:   Ross Zwisler <ross.zwisler@...ux.intel.com>
To:     Toshi Kani <toshi.kani@....com>, Mike Snitzer <snitzer@...hat.com>,
        dm-devel@...hat.com
Cc:     Ross Zwisler <ross.zwisler@...ux.intel.com>,
        linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-nvdimm@...ts.01.org, linux-xfs@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH v2 0/7] Fix DM DAX handling

Changes from v1:
 * Reworked patches 1 and 2 so that the __bdev_dax_supported() function
   stays hidden behind the bdev_dax_supported() wrapper.  This is needed
   to prevent compilation errors in configs where CONFIG_FS_DAX isn't
   defined. (0-day)

 * Added Eric's Reviewed-by to patch 1.  I did this in spite of the
   bdev_dax_supported() changes because they were minor and I think
   Eric's review was focused on the XFS parts.

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This series fixes a few issues that I found with DM's handling of DAX
devices.  Here are some of the issues I found:

 * We can create a dm-stripe or dm-linear device which is made up of an
   fsdax PMEM namespace and a raw PMEM namespace but which can hold a
   filesystem mounted with the -o dax mount option.  DAX operations to
   the raw PMEM namespace part lack struct page and can fail in
   interesting/unexpected ways when doing things like fork(), examining
   memory with gdb, etc.

 * We can create a dm-stripe or dm-linear device which is made up of an
   fsdax PMEM namespace and a BRD ramdisk which can hold a filesystem
   mounted with the -o dax mount option.  All I/O to this filesystem
   will fail.

 * In DM you can't transition a dm target which could possibly support
   DAX (mode DM_TYPE_DAX_BIO_BASED) to one which can't support DAX
   (mode DM_TYPE_BIO_BASED), even if you never use DAX.

The first 2 patches in this series are prep work from Darrick and Dave
which improve bdev_dax_supported().  The last 5 problems fix the above
mentioned problems in DM.  I feel that this series simplifies the
handling of DAX devices in DM, and the last 5 DM-related patches have a
net code reduction of 50 lines.

Darrick J. Wong (1):
  fs: allow per-device dax status checking for filesystems

Dave Jiang (1):
  dax: change bdev_dax_supported() to support boolean returns

Ross Zwisler (5):
  dm: fix test for DAX device support
  dm: prevent DAX mounts if not supported
  dm: remove DM_TYPE_DAX_BIO_BASED dm_queue_mode
  dm-snap: remove unnecessary direct_access() stub
  dm-error: remove unnecessary direct_access() stub

 drivers/dax/super.c           | 40 ++++++++++++++++++++--------------------
 drivers/md/dm-ioctl.c         | 16 ++++++----------
 drivers/md/dm-snap.c          |  8 --------
 drivers/md/dm-table.c         | 29 +++++++++++------------------
 drivers/md/dm-target.c        |  7 -------
 drivers/md/dm.c               |  7 ++-----
 fs/ext2/super.c               |  3 +--
 fs/ext4/super.c               |  3 +--
 fs/xfs/xfs_ioctl.c            |  3 ++-
 fs/xfs/xfs_iops.c             | 30 +++++++++++++++++++++++++-----
 fs/xfs/xfs_super.c            | 10 ++++++++--
 include/linux/dax.h           | 11 ++++++-----
 include/linux/device-mapper.h |  8 ++++++--
 13 files changed, 88 insertions(+), 87 deletions(-)

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