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? > I'm also not sure why the compiler is not complaining about an > uninitialized variable? No idea. -- Kirill A. Shutemov -- 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>