On Fri, 2017-06-16 at 15:34 -0400, Jeff Layton wrote: > Jan Kara's description for this patch is much better than mine, so I'm > quoting it verbatim here: > > DAX currently doesn't set errors in the mapping when cache flushing > fails in dax_writeback_mapping_range(). Since this function can get > called only from fsync(2) or sync(2), this is actually as good as it can > currently get since we correctly propagate the error up from > dax_writeback_mapping_range() to filemap_fdatawrite() > > However, in the future better writeback error handling will enable us to > properly report these errors on fsync(2) even if there are multiple file > descriptors open against the file or if sync(2) gets called before > fsync(2). So convert DAX to using standard error reporting through the > mapping. > > Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@xxxxxxxxxx> > Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxx> > Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx> > Reviewed-and-Tested-by: Ross Zwisler <ross.zwisler@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > --- > fs/dax.c | 4 +++- > 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) > > diff --git a/fs/dax.c b/fs/dax.c > index 9899f07acf72..c663e8cc2a76 100644 > --- a/fs/dax.c > +++ b/fs/dax.c > @@ -856,8 +856,10 @@ int dax_writeback_mapping_range(struct address_space *mapping, > > ret = dax_writeback_one(bdev, dax_dev, mapping, > indices[i], pvec.pages[i]); > - if (ret < 0) > + if (ret < 0) { > + mapping_set_error(mapping, ret); > goto out; > + } > } > } > out: I should point out here that Ross had an issue with this patch in an earlier set, that I addressed with a flag in the last set. The flag is icky though. In this set, patch #6 should make it unnecessary: mm: clear AS_EIO/AS_ENOSPC when writeback initiation fails Ross, could you test that this set still works ok for you with dax? It should apply reasonably cleanly on top of linux-next. Thanks, -- Jeff Layton <jlayton@xxxxxxxxxx> -- 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>