From: Matthew Wilcox <willy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Jan Kara pointed out that in the case where we are writing to a hole, we can end up with a lock inversion between the page lock and the journal lock. We can avoid this by starting the transaction in ext4 before calling into DAX. The journal lock nests inside the superblock pagefault lock, so we have to duplicate that code from dax_fault, like XFS does. Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox <willy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/ext4/file.c | 55 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--- 1 file changed, 52 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/fs/ext4/file.c b/fs/ext4/file.c index d5219e4..113837e 100644 --- a/fs/ext4/file.c +++ b/fs/ext4/file.c @@ -207,14 +207,63 @@ static void ext4_end_io_unwritten(struct buffer_head *bh, int uptodate) static int ext4_dax_fault(struct vm_area_struct *vma, struct vm_fault *vmf) { - return dax_fault(vma, vmf, ext4_get_block_dax, ext4_end_io_unwritten); + int result; + handle_t *handle = NULL; + struct super_block *sb = file_inode(vma->vm_file)->i_sb; + bool write = vmf->flags & FAULT_FLAG_WRITE; + + if (write) { + sb_start_pagefault(sb); + file_update_time(vma->vm_file); + handle = ext4_journal_start_sb(sb, EXT4_HT_WRITE_PAGE, + EXT4_DATA_TRANS_BLOCKS(sb)); + } + + if (IS_ERR(handle)) + result = VM_FAULT_SIGBUS; + else + result = __dax_fault(vma, vmf, ext4_get_block_dax, + ext4_end_io_unwritten); + + if (write) { + if (!IS_ERR(handle)) + ext4_journal_stop(handle); + sb_end_pagefault(sb); + } + + return result; } static int ext4_dax_pmd_fault(struct vm_area_struct *vma, unsigned long addr, pmd_t *pmd, unsigned int flags) { - return dax_pmd_fault(vma, addr, pmd, flags, ext4_get_block_dax, - ext4_end_io_unwritten); + int result; + handle_t *handle = NULL; + struct inode *inode = file_inode(vma->vm_file); + struct super_block *sb = inode->i_sb; + bool write = flags & FAULT_FLAG_WRITE; + + if (write) { + sb_start_pagefault(sb); + file_update_time(vma->vm_file); + handle = ext4_journal_start_sb(sb, EXT4_HT_WRITE_PAGE, + ext4_chunk_trans_blocks(inode, + PMD_SIZE / PAGE_SIZE)); + } + + if (IS_ERR(handle)) + result = VM_FAULT_SIGBUS; + else + result = __dax_pmd_fault(vma, addr, pmd, flags, + ext4_get_block_dax, ext4_end_io_unwritten); + + if (write) { + if (!IS_ERR(handle)) + ext4_journal_stop(handle); + sb_end_pagefault(sb); + } + + return result; } static int ext4_dax_mkwrite(struct vm_area_struct *vma, struct vm_fault *vmf) -- 2.1.4 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html