On Thu, Oct 26, 2017 at 12:58:50PM +0200, Jan Kara wrote: > But are we guaranteed page refs are short term? E.g. if someone creates > v4l2 videobuf in MAP_SHARED mapping of a file on DAX filesystem, page refs > can be rather long-term similarly as in RDMA case. Also freeing of blocks > on page reference drop is another async entry point into the filesystem > which could unpleasantly surprise us but I guess workqueues would solve > that reasonably fine. The point is that we need to prohibit long term elevated page counts with DAX anyway - we can't just let people grab allocated blocks forever while ignoring file system operations. For stage 1 we'll just need to fail those, and in the long run they will have to use a mechanism similar to FL_LAYOUT locks to deal with file system allocation changes.
