On Fri, Jul 03, 2015 at 02:30:27PM -0400, Theodore Ts'o wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 03, 2015 at 10:40:40AM -0400, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> > From: Matthew Wilcox <willy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >
> > DAX relies on the get_block function either zeroing newly allocated blocks
> > before they're findable by subsequent calls to get_block, or marking newly
> > allocated blocks as unwritten. ext4_get_block() cannot create unwritten
> > extents, but ext4_get_block_write() can.
>
> To be clear, this patch has no prerequistes or dependencies, right?
> That is, it would be fine if I take this through the ext4 git tree?
> Or is there a reason or a preference for carrying this patch
> somewhere else?
Right, no dependencies or prerequisites, completely independent of all
the other patches.
> Also, is there a way I can test the DAX functionality in ext4 using
> KVM? If so, can you give me a cheat sheet about how I can do that?
I don't use KVM, but I can tell you what I do ... (additional explanation
added, not for Ted's benefit, but because people less familiar with
Linux than Ted is may happen upon this email for their own purposes).
In /etc/default/grub, I have this line:
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX="memmap=4G!4G"
memmap=nn[KMG]!ss[KMG]
[KNL,X86] Mark specific memory as protected.
Region of memory to be used, from ss to ss+nn.
The memory region may be marked as e820 type 12 (0xc)
and is NVDIMM or ADR memory.
In my kernel config, I have:
CONFIG_X86_PMEM_LEGACY=y
CONFIG_LIBNVDIMM=y
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_PMEM=m
At boot, I "modprobe pmem". On the desktop-class system I'm using as
my development machine, the BIOS doesn't clear RAM between boots (only
power cycles), so the partition table and ext4 filesystem stays good,
and all I have to do is:
mount -odax /dev/pmem0p1 /mnt/ram0/
Also my xfstests local.config:
TEST_DEV=/dev/pmem0p1
TEST_DIR=/mnt/ram0
SCRATCH_DEV=/dev/pmem0p2
SCRATCH_MNT=/mnt/ram1
TEST_FS_MOUNT_OPTS="-o dax"
EXT_MOUNT_OPTIONS="-o dax"
MKFS_OPTIONS="-b4096"
Hope I didn't forget anything.
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