On Wed, Sep 16, 2015 at 02:12:18PM +0300, Kirill A. Shutemov wrote: > On Tue, Sep 15, 2015 at 04:52:42PM -0700, Dan Williams wrote: > > Hi Kirill, > > > > On Fri, Aug 7, 2015 at 4:53 AM, Kirill A. Shutemov > > <kirill.shutemov@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > DAX is not so special: we need i_mmap_lock to protect mapping->i_mmap. > > > > > > __dax_pmd_fault() uses unmap_mapping_range() shoot out zero page from > > > all mappings. We need to drop i_mmap_lock there to avoid lock deadlock. > > > > > > Re-aquiring the lock should be fine since we check i_size after the > > > point. > > > > > > Not-yet-signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox <willy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > > > Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > > > --- > > > fs/dax.c | 35 +++++++++++++++++++---------------- > > > mm/memory.c | 11 ++--------- > > > 2 files changed, 21 insertions(+), 25 deletions(-) > > > > > > diff --git a/fs/dax.c b/fs/dax.c > > > index 9ef9b80cc132..ed54efedade6 100644 > > > --- a/fs/dax.c > > > +++ b/fs/dax.c > > > @@ -554,6 +554,25 @@ int __dax_pmd_fault(struct vm_area_struct *vma, unsigned long address, > > > if (!buffer_size_valid(&bh) || bh.b_size < PMD_SIZE) > > > goto fallback; > > > > > > + if (buffer_unwritten(&bh) || buffer_new(&bh)) { > > > + int i; > > > + for (i = 0; i < PTRS_PER_PMD; i++) > > > + clear_page(kaddr + i * PAGE_SIZE); > > > > This patch, now upstream as commit 46c043ede471, moves the call to > > clear_page() earlier in __dax_pmd_fault(). However, 'kaddr' is not > > set at this point, so I'm not sure this path was ever tested. > > Ughh. It's obviously broken. > > I took fs/dax.c part of the patch from Matthew. And I'm not sure now we > would need to move this "if (buffer_unwritten(&bh) || buffer_new(&bh)) {" > block around. It should work fine where it was before. Right? > Matthew? Moving the "if (buffer_unwritten(&bh) || buffer_new(&bh)) {" block back seems correct to me. Matthew is out for a while, so we should probably take care of this without him. Kirill, do you want to whip up a quick patch? I'm happy to do it if you're busy. -- 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