Re: [PATCH 0/6 v3] dax: Page invalidation fixes

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On Tue, Dec 13, 2016 at 3:52 AM, Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Mon 12-12-16 17:47:02, Jan Kara wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> this is the third revision of my fixes of races when invalidating hole pages in
>> DAX mappings. See changelogs for details. The series is based on my patches to
>> write-protect DAX PTEs which are currently carried in mm tree. This is a hard
>> dependency because we really need to closely track dirtiness (and cleanness!)
>> of radix tree entries in DAX mappings in order to avoid discarding valid dirty
>> bits leading to missed cache flushes on fsync(2).
>>
>> The tests have passed xfstests for xfs and ext4 in DAX and non-DAX mode.
>>
>> Johannes, are you OK with patch 2/6 in its current form? I'd like to push these
>> patches to some tree once DAX write-protection patches are merged.  I'm hoping
>> to get at least first three patches merged for 4.10-rc2... Thanks!
>
> OK, with the final ack from Johannes and since this is mostly DAX stuff,
> can we take this through NVDIMM tree and push to Linus either late in the
> merge window or for -rc2? These patches require my DAX patches sitting in mm
> tree so they can be included in any git tree only once those patches land
> in Linus' tree (which may happen only once Dave and Ted push out their
> stuff - this is the most convoluted merge window I'd ever to deal with ;-)...
> Dan?
>

I like the -rc2 plan better than sending a pull request based on some
random point in the middle of the merge window. I can give Linus a
heads up in my initial nvdimm pull request for -rc1 that for
coordination purposes we'll be sending this set of follow-on DAX
cleanups for -rc2.

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