Avoid populating pagecache when the block device is in DAX mode.
Otherwise these page cache entries collide with the fsync/msync
implementation and break data durability guarantees.
Cc: Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxxx>
Cc: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx>
Cc: Dave Chinner <david@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Reported-by: Ross Zwisler <ross.zwisler@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Tested-by: Ross Zwisler <ross.zwisler@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Matthew Wilcox <willy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@xxxxxxxxx>
---
Changes in v2:
1/ Switch from __page_cache_alloc to alloc_pages (Jens)
2/ Move read_dax_sector() declaration to include/linux/dax.h (Willy)
3/ Collect Reviewed-by and Tested-by tags from Willy and Ross.
block/partition-generic.c | 18 +++++++++++++++---
fs/dax.c | 20 ++++++++++++++++++++
include/linux/dax.h | 11 +++++++++++
3 files changed, 46 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/block/partition-generic.c b/block/partition-generic.c
index 746935a5973c..fefd01b496a0 100644
--- a/block/partition-generic.c
+++ b/block/partition-generic.c
@@ -16,6 +16,7 @@
#include <linux/kmod.h>
#include <linux/ctype.h>
#include <linux/genhd.h>
+#include <linux/dax.h>
#include <linux/blktrace_api.h>
#include "partitions/check.h"
@@ -550,13 +551,24 @@ int invalidate_partitions(struct gendisk *disk, struct block_device *bdev)
return 0;
}
-unsigned char *read_dev_sector(struct block_device *bdev, sector_t n, Sector *p)
+static struct page *read_pagecache_sector(struct block_device *bdev, sector_t n)
{
struct address_space *mapping = bdev->bd_inode->i_mapping;
+
+ return read_mapping_page(mapping, (pgoff_t)(n >> (PAGE_CACHE_SHIFT-9)),
+ NULL);
+}
+
+unsigned char *read_dev_sector(struct block_device *bdev, sector_t n, Sector *p)
+{
struct page *page;
- page = read_mapping_page(mapping, (pgoff_t)(n >> (PAGE_CACHE_SHIFT-9)),
- NULL);
+ /* don't populate page cache for dax capable devices */
+ if (IS_DAX(bdev->bd_inode))
+ page = read_dax_sector(bdev, n);
+ else
+ page = read_pagecache_sector(bdev, n);
+
if (!IS_ERR(page)) {
if (PageError(page))
goto fail;
diff --git a/fs/dax.c b/fs/dax.c
index 4fd6b0c5c6b5..e0e9358baf35 100644
--- a/fs/dax.c
+++ b/fs/dax.c
@@ -58,6 +58,26 @@ static void dax_unmap_atomic(struct block_device *bdev,
blk_queue_exit(bdev->bd_queue);
}
+struct page *read_dax_sector(struct block_device *bdev, sector_t n)
+{
+ struct page *page = alloc_pages(GFP_KERNEL, 0);
+ struct blk_dax_ctl dax = {
+ .size = PAGE_SIZE,
+ .sector = n & ~((((int) PAGE_SIZE) / 512) - 1),
+ };
+ long rc;
+
+ if (!page)
+ return ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM);
+
+ rc = dax_map_atomic(bdev, &dax);
+ if (rc < 0)
+ return ERR_PTR(rc);
+ memcpy_from_pmem(page_address(page), dax.addr, PAGE_SIZE);
+ dax_unmap_atomic(bdev, &dax);
+ return page;
+}
+
/*
* dax_clear_blocks() is called from within transaction context from XFS,
* and hence this means the stack from this point must follow GFP_NOFS
diff --git a/include/linux/dax.h b/include/linux/dax.h
index 8204c3dc3800..818e45078929 100644
--- a/include/linux/dax.h
+++ b/include/linux/dax.h
@@ -14,6 +14,17 @@ int dax_fault(struct vm_area_struct *, struct vm_fault *, get_block_t,
dax_iodone_t);
int __dax_fault(struct vm_area_struct *, struct vm_fault *, get_block_t,
dax_iodone_t);
+
+#ifdef CONFIG_FS_DAX
+struct page *read_dax_sector(struct block_device *bdev, sector_t n);
+#else
+static inline struct page *read_dax_sector(struct block_device *bdev,
+ sector_t n)
+{
+ return ERR_PTR(-ENXIO);
+}
+#endif
+
#ifdef CONFIG_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE
int dax_pmd_fault(struct vm_area_struct *, unsigned long addr, pmd_t *,
unsigned int flags, get_block_t, dax_iodone_t);
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