On Wed, 2016-03-23 at 10:45 +0100, Jan Kara wrote: > On Tue 22-03-16 15:07:33, Toshi Kani wrote: > > On Tue, 2016-03-22 at 13:32 -0600, Ross Zwisler wrote: > > > On Mon, Mar 21, 2016 at 02:22:45PM +0100, Jan Kara wrote: > > > > [Sorry for repost but I accidentally sent initial email without > > > > patches] > > > > > > > > Hello, > > > > > > > > this is my second attempt at DAX page fault locking rewrite. Things > > > > now work reasonably well, it has survived full xfstests run on > > > > ext4. I guess I need to do more mmap targetted tests to unveil > > > > issues. Guys what do you used for DAX testing? > > > > > > I typically use xfstests for regression testing. If we can come up > > > with new generally useful regression tests, especially ones > > > concerning mmap races, that would be awesome. I guess it's just a > > > choice between adding them somewhere in xfstests or somewhere else > > > like with the unit tests in ndctl. > > > > Brian Boylston wrote a test for mmap race conditions and posted it > > before. This test was very useful to fix the data corruption issue we > > had before. > > http://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-ext4/msg49876.html > > > > If there is anything we can do to make this test useful as regression > > tests? > > Thanks for the pointer, I forgot about this useful test. As Dave said the > best way for this to not get lost is to include it in xfstests. Since I > want to run the test regularly anyway, I can integrate it myself. Great! Thanks Jan! -Toshi -- 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
