On Fri, 2016-03-25 at 11:47 -0700, Dan Williams wrote: > On Thu, Mar 24, 2016 at 4:17 PM, Vishal Verma <vishal.l.verma@intel.c > om> wrote: > > > > From: Matthew Wilcox <matthew.r.wilcox@xxxxxxxxx> > > > > dax_clear_sectors() cannot handle poisoned blocks. These must be > > zeroed using the BIO interface instead. Convert ext2 and XFS to > > use > > only sb_issue_zerout(). > > > > Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox <matthew.r.wilcox@xxxxxxxxx> > > [vishal: Also remove the dax_clear_sectors function entirely] > > Signed-off-by: Vishal Verma <vishal.l.verma@xxxxxxxxx> > > --- > > fs/dax.c | 32 -------------------------------- > > fs/ext2/inode.c | 7 +++---- > > fs/xfs/xfs_bmap_util.c | 9 --------- > > include/linux/dax.h | 1 - > > 4 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 46 deletions(-) > > > > diff --git a/fs/dax.c b/fs/dax.c > > index bb7e9f8..a30481e 100644 > > --- a/fs/dax.c > > +++ b/fs/dax.c > > @@ -78,38 +78,6 @@ struct page *read_dax_sector(struct block_device > > *bdev, sector_t n) > > return page; > > } > > > > -/* > > - * dax_clear_sectors() is called from within transaction context > > from XFS, > > - * and hence this means the stack from this point must follow > > GFP_NOFS > > - * semantics for all operations. > > - */ > > -int dax_clear_sectors(struct block_device *bdev, sector_t _sector, > > long _size) > > -{ > > - struct blk_dax_ctl dax = { > > - .sector = _sector, > > - .size = _size, > > - }; > > - > > - might_sleep(); > > - do { > > - long count, sz; > > - > > - count = dax_map_atomic(bdev, &dax); > > - if (count < 0) > > - return count; > > - sz = min_t(long, count, SZ_128K); > > - clear_pmem(dax.addr, sz); > > - dax.size -= sz; > > - dax.sector += sz / 512; > > - dax_unmap_atomic(bdev, &dax); > > - cond_resched(); > > - } while (dax.size); > > - > > - wmb_pmem(); > > - return 0; > > -} > > -EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(dax_clear_sectors); > What about the other unwritten extent conversions in the dax path? > Shouldn't those be converted to block-layer zero-outs as well? Could you point me to where these might be? I thought once we've converted all the zeroout type callers (by removing dax_clear_sectors), and fixed up dax_do_io to try a driver fallback, we've handled all the media error cases in dax..��.n��������+%������w��{.n�����{����n�r������&��z�ޗ�zf���h���~����������_��+v���)ߣ�