On Tue, Dec 13, 2016 at 10:57 AM, Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Tue, Dec 13, 2016 at 3:52 AM, Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxx> wrote: >> On Mon 12-12-16 17:47:02, Jan Kara wrote: >>> Hello, >>> >>> this is the third revision of my fixes of races when invalidating hole pages in >>> DAX mappings. See changelogs for details. The series is based on my patches to >>> write-protect DAX PTEs which are currently carried in mm tree. This is a hard >>> dependency because we really need to closely track dirtiness (and cleanness!) >>> of radix tree entries in DAX mappings in order to avoid discarding valid dirty >>> bits leading to missed cache flushes on fsync(2). >>> >>> The tests have passed xfstests for xfs and ext4 in DAX and non-DAX mode. >>> >>> Johannes, are you OK with patch 2/6 in its current form? I'd like to push these >>> patches to some tree once DAX write-protection patches are merged. I'm hoping >>> to get at least first three patches merged for 4.10-rc2... Thanks! >> >> OK, with the final ack from Johannes and since this is mostly DAX stuff, >> can we take this through NVDIMM tree and push to Linus either late in the >> merge window or for -rc2? These patches require my DAX patches sitting in mm >> tree so they can be included in any git tree only once those patches land >> in Linus' tree (which may happen only once Dave and Ted push out their >> stuff - this is the most convoluted merge window I'd ever to deal with ;-)... >> Dan? >> > > I like the -rc2 plan better than sending a pull request based on some > random point in the middle of the merge window. I can give Linus a > heads up in my initial nvdimm pull request for -rc1 that for > coordination purposes we'll be sending this set of follow-on DAX > cleanups for -rc2. So what's still pending for -rc2? I want to be explicit about what I'm requesting Linus be prepared to receive after -rc1. The libnvdimm pull request is very light this time around since I ended up deferring the device-dax-subdivision topic until 4.11 and sub-section memory hotplug didn't make the cutoff for -mm. We can spend some of that goodwill on your patches ;-). I can roll them into libnvdimm-for-next now for the integration testing coverage, rebase to -rc1 when it's out, wait for your thumbs up on the testing and send a pull request on the 23rd. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ext4" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
