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Message-Id: <1411677218-29146-6-git-send-email-matthew.r.wilcox@intel.com>
Date: Thu, 25 Sep 2014 16:33:22 -0400
From: Matthew Wilcox <matthew.r.wilcox@...el.com>
To: linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, linux-mm@...ck.org,
linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <matthew.r.wilcox@...el.com>
Subject: [PATCH v11 05/21] vfs,ext2: Introduce IS_DAX(inode)
Use an inode flag to tag inodes which should avoid using the page cache.
Convert ext2 to use it instead of mapping_is_xip(). Prevent I/Os to
files tagged with the DAX flag from falling back to buffered I/O.
Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox <matthew.r.wilcox@...el.com>
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>
---
fs/ext2/inode.c | 9 ++++++---
fs/ext2/xip.h | 2 --
include/linux/fs.h | 6 ++++++
mm/filemap.c | 19 ++++++++++++-------
4 files changed, 24 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)
diff --git a/fs/ext2/inode.c b/fs/ext2/inode.c
index 36d35c3..0cb0448 100644
--- a/fs/ext2/inode.c
+++ b/fs/ext2/inode.c
@@ -731,7 +731,7 @@ static int ext2_get_blocks(struct inode *inode,
goto cleanup;
}
- if (ext2_use_xip(inode->i_sb)) {
+ if (IS_DAX(inode)) {
/*
* we need to clear the block
*/
@@ -1201,7 +1201,7 @@ static int ext2_setsize(struct inode *inode, loff_t newsize)
inode_dio_wait(inode);
- if (mapping_is_xip(inode->i_mapping))
+ if (IS_DAX(inode))
error = xip_truncate_page(inode->i_mapping, newsize);
else if (test_opt(inode->i_sb, NOBH))
error = nobh_truncate_page(inode->i_mapping,
@@ -1273,7 +1273,8 @@ void ext2_set_inode_flags(struct inode *inode)
{
unsigned int flags = EXT2_I(inode)->i_flags;
- inode->i_flags &= ~(S_SYNC|S_APPEND|S_IMMUTABLE|S_NOATIME|S_DIRSYNC);
+ inode->i_flags &= ~(S_SYNC | S_APPEND | S_IMMUTABLE | S_NOATIME |
+ S_DIRSYNC | S_DAX);
if (flags & EXT2_SYNC_FL)
inode->i_flags |= S_SYNC;
if (flags & EXT2_APPEND_FL)
@@ -1284,6 +1285,8 @@ void ext2_set_inode_flags(struct inode *inode)
inode->i_flags |= S_NOATIME;
if (flags & EXT2_DIRSYNC_FL)
inode->i_flags |= S_DIRSYNC;
+ if (test_opt(inode->i_sb, XIP))
+ inode->i_flags |= S_DAX;
}
/* Propagate flags from i_flags to EXT2_I(inode)->i_flags */
diff --git a/fs/ext2/xip.h b/fs/ext2/xip.h
index 18b34d2..29be737 100644
--- a/fs/ext2/xip.h
+++ b/fs/ext2/xip.h
@@ -16,9 +16,7 @@ static inline int ext2_use_xip (struct super_block *sb)
}
int ext2_get_xip_mem(struct address_space *, pgoff_t, int,
void **, unsigned long *);
-#define mapping_is_xip(map) unlikely(map->a_ops->get_xip_mem)
#else
-#define mapping_is_xip(map) 0
#define ext2_xip_verify_sb(sb) do { } while (0)
#define ext2_use_xip(sb) 0
#define ext2_clear_xip_target(inode, chain) 0
diff --git a/include/linux/fs.h b/include/linux/fs.h
index 9418772..e99e5c4 100644
--- a/include/linux/fs.h
+++ b/include/linux/fs.h
@@ -1605,6 +1605,7 @@ struct super_operations {
#define S_IMA 1024 /* Inode has an associated IMA struct */
#define S_AUTOMOUNT 2048 /* Automount/referral quasi-directory */
#define S_NOSEC 4096 /* no suid or xattr security attributes */
+#define S_DAX 8192 /* Direct Access, avoiding the page cache */
/*
* Note that nosuid etc flags are inode-specific: setting some file-system
@@ -1642,6 +1643,11 @@ struct super_operations {
#define IS_IMA(inode) ((inode)->i_flags & S_IMA)
#define IS_AUTOMOUNT(inode) ((inode)->i_flags & S_AUTOMOUNT)
#define IS_NOSEC(inode) ((inode)->i_flags & S_NOSEC)
+#ifdef CONFIG_FS_XIP
+#define IS_DAX(inode) ((inode)->i_flags & S_DAX)
+#else
+#define IS_DAX(inode) 0
+#endif
/*
* Inode state bits. Protected by inode->i_lock
diff --git a/mm/filemap.c b/mm/filemap.c
index 90effcd..fec4db9 100644
--- a/mm/filemap.c
+++ b/mm/filemap.c
@@ -1718,9 +1718,11 @@ generic_file_read_iter(struct kiocb *iocb, struct iov_iter *iter)
* we've already read everything we wanted to, or if
* there was a short read because we hit EOF, go ahead
* and return. Otherwise fallthrough to buffered io for
- * the rest of the read.
+ * the rest of the read. Buffered reads will not work for
+ * DAX files, so don't bother trying.
*/
- if (retval < 0 || !iov_iter_count(iter) || *ppos >= size) {
+ if (retval < 0 || !iov_iter_count(iter) || *ppos >= size ||
+ IS_DAX(inode)) {
file_accessed(file);
goto out;
}
@@ -2584,13 +2586,16 @@ ssize_t __generic_file_write_iter(struct kiocb *iocb, struct iov_iter *from)
loff_t endbyte;
written = generic_file_direct_write(iocb, from, pos);
- if (written < 0 || written == count)
- goto out;
-
/*
- * direct-io write to a hole: fall through to buffered I/O
- * for completing the rest of the request.
+ * If the write stopped short of completing, fall back to
+ * buffered writes. Some filesystems do this for writes to
+ * holes, for example. For DAX files, a buffered write will
+ * not succeed (even if it did, DAX does not handle dirty
+ * page-cache pages correctly).
*/
+ if (written < 0 || written == count || IS_DAX(inode))
+ goto out;
+
pos += written;
count -= written;
--
2.1.0
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