Before support for the per-inode DAX flag was disabled the XFS the code had an issue where the user couldn't reliably tell whether or not DAX was being used to service page faults and I/O when the DAX mount option was used. In this case each inode within the mounted filesystem started with S_DAX set due to the mount option, but it could be cleared if someone touched the individual inode flag. For example (v4.13 and before): # mount | grep dax /dev/pmem0 on /mnt type xfs (rw,relatime,seclabel,attr2,dax,inode64,sunit=4096,swidth=4096,noquota) # touch /mnt/a /mnt/b # both files currently use DAX # xfs_io -c "lsattr" /mnt/* # neither has the DAX inode option set ----------e----- /mnt/a ----------e----- /mnt/b # xfs_io -c "chattr -x" /mnt/a # this clears S_DAX for /mnt/a # xfs_io -c "lsattr" /mnt/* ----------e----- /mnt/a ----------e----- /mnt/b We end up with both /mnt/a and /mnt/b looking identical from the point of view of the mount option and from lsattr, but one is using DAX and the other is not. Fix this by always doing DAX I/O when either the mount option is set or when the DAX inode flag is set. This means that DAX will always be used for all inodes on a filesystem mounted with -o dax, making the usage reliable and detectable. Signed-off-by: Ross Zwisler <ross.zwisler@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx> --- fs/xfs/xfs_ioctl.c | 11 +++++++++-- 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/fs/xfs/xfs_ioctl.c b/fs/xfs/xfs_ioctl.c index 5049e8a..26faeb9 100644 --- a/fs/xfs/xfs_ioctl.c +++ b/fs/xfs/xfs_ioctl.c @@ -1013,7 +1013,7 @@ xfs_diflags_to_linux( else inode->i_flags &= ~S_NOATIME; #if 0 /* disabled until the flag switching races are sorted out */ - if (xflags & FS_XFLAG_DAX) + if ((xflags & FS_XFLAG_DAX) || (ip->i_mount->m_flags & XFS_MOUNT_DAX)) inode->i_flags |= S_DAX; else inode->i_flags &= ~S_DAX; @@ -1104,7 +1104,14 @@ xfs_ioctl_setattr_dax_invalidate( return -EINVAL; } - /* If the DAX state is not changing, we have nothing to do here. */ + /* + * If the DAX state is not changing, we have nothing to do here. If + * the DAX mount option was used we will update the DAX inode flag as + * the user requested but we will continue to use DAX for I/O and page + * faults regardless of how the inode flag is set. + */ + if (ip->i_mount->m_flags & XFS_MOUNT_DAX) + return 0; if ((fa->fsx_xflags & FS_XFLAG_DAX) && IS_DAX(inode)) return 0; if (!(fa->fsx_xflags & FS_XFLAG_DAX) && !IS_DAX(inode)) -- 2.9.5
