On Thu 13-10-16 14:34:34, Ross Zwisler wrote: > On Mon, Oct 03, 2016 at 01:13:58PM +0200, Jan Kara wrote: > > On Mon 03-10-16 02:32:48, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > > > On Mon, Oct 03, 2016 at 10:15:49AM +0200, Jan Kara wrote: > > > > Yeah, so DAX path is special because it installs its own PTE directly from > > > > the fault handler which we don't do in any other case (only driver fault > > > > handlers commonly do this but those generally don't care about > > > > ->page_mkwrite or file mappings for that matter). > > > > > > > > I don't say there are no simplifications or unifications possible, but I'd > > > > prefer to leave them for a bit later once the current churn with ongoing > > > > work somewhat settles... > > > > > > Allright, let's keep it simple for now. Being said this series clearly > > > is 4.9 material, but any chance to get a respin of the invalidate_pages > > > > Agreed (actually 4.10). > > > > > series as that might still be 4.8 material? > > > > The problem with invalidate_pages series is that it depends on the ability > > to clear the dirty bits in the radix tree of DAX mappings (i.e. the first > > series). Otherwise radix tree entries that get once dirty can never be safely > > evicted, invalidate_inode_pages2_range() will keep returning EBUSY and > > callers get confused (I've tried that few weeks ago). > > > > If I dropped patch 5/6 for 4.9 merge (i.e., we would still happily discard > > dirty radix tree entries from invalidate_inode_pages2_range()), things > > would run fine, just fsync() may miss to flush caches for some pages. I'm > > not sure that's much better than current status quo though. Thoughts? > > I'm not sure if I'm understanding this correctly, but if you're saying > that we might end up in a case where fsync()/msync() would fail to > properly flush pages that are/should be dirty, I think this is a no-go. > That could result in data corruption if a user calls fsync(), thinks > they've achieved a synchronization point (updating other metadata or > whatever), then via power loss they lose data they had flushed via that > previous fsync() because it was still in the CPU cache and never really > made it out to media. I know and actually current code is buggy in that way as well and this patch set is fixing it. But I was arguing that only applying part of the fixes so that the main problem remains unfixed would not be very beneficial anyway. This week I plan to rebase both series on top of rc1 + your THP patches so that we can move on with merging the stuff. Honza -- Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxxx> SUSE Labs, CR -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@xxxxxxxxx. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: <a href=mailto:"dont@xxxxxxxxx";> email@xxxxxxxxx </a>