linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] dax: fix deadlock in __dax

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Date:	Fri, 25 Sep 2015 12:23:34 -0600
From:	Ross Zwisler <ross.zwisler@...ux.intel.com>
To:	Dave Chinner <david@...morbit.com>
Cc:	Ross Zwisler <ross.zwisler@...ux.intel.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Alexander Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>,
	Matthew Wilcox <willy@...ux.intel.com>,
	linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@...el.com>,
	"Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@...ux.intel.com>,
	linux-nvdimm@...ts.01.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] dax: fix deadlock in __dax_fault

On Fri, Sep 25, 2015 at 12:53:57PM +1000, Dave Chinner wrote:
<>
> We've already got block allocation serialisation at the filesystem
> level, and the issue is the unserialised block zeroing being done by
> the dax code. That can be fixed by moving the zeroing into the
> filesystem code when it runs "complete_unwritten" and checks whether
> the mapping has already been marked as written or not...
> 
> I've recently pointed out in a different thread that this is the
> solution to whatever that problem was (can't recall which
> thread/problem is was now :/ ) and it the same solution here. We
> already have the serialisation we need, we just need to move the
> block zeroing operation into the appropriate places to make it work
> correctly.

I think perhaps this is the thread that you're remembering:
https://lkml.org/lkml/2015/8/11/731
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