This patch series adds a slimmed down version of fsync/msync support to DAX. The major change versus v2 of this patch series is that we no longer remove DAX entries from the radix tree during fsync/msync calls. Instead the list of DAX entries in the radix tree grows for the lifetime of the mapping. We reclaim DAX entries from the radix tree via clear_exceptional_entry() for truncate, when the filesystem is unmounted, etc. This change was made because if we try and remove radix tree entries during writeback operations there are a number of race conditions that exist between those writeback operations and page faults. In the non-DAX case these races are dealt with using the page lock, but we don't have a good replacement lock with the same granularity. These races could leave us in a place where we have a DAX page that is dirty and writeable from userspace but no longer in the radix tree. This page would then be skipped during subsequent writeback operations, which is unacceptable. I do plan to continue to try and solve these race conditions so that we can have a more optimal fsync/msync solution for DAX, but I wanted to get this set out for v4.5 consideration while I continued working. While suboptimal the solution in this series gives us correct behavior for DAX fsync/msync and seems like a reasonable short term compromise. This series is built upon v4.4-rc4 plus the recent ext4 DAX series from Jan Kara (http://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-ext4/msg49951.html) and a recent XFS fix from Dave Chinner (https://lkml.org/lkml/2015/12/2/923). The tree with all this working can be found here: https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/zwisler/linux.git/log/?h=fsync_v3 Other changes versus v2: - Renamed dax_fsync() to dax_writeback_mapping_range(). (Dave Chinner) - Removed REQ_FUA/REQ_FLUSH support from the PMEM driver and instead just make the call to wmb_pmem() in dax_writeback_mapping_range(). (Dan) - Reworked some BUG_ON() calls to be a WARN_ON() followed by an error return. - Moved call to dax_writeback_mapping_range() from the filesystems down into filemap_write_and_wait_range(). (Dave Chinner) - Fixed handling of DAX read faults so they create a radix tree entry but don't mark it as dirty until the follow-up dax_pfn_mkwrite() call. - Update clear_exceptional_entry() and to dax_writeback_one() so they validate the DAX radix tree entry before they use it. (Dave Chinner) - Added a comment to find_get_entries_tag() to explain the restart condition. (Dave Chinner) Ross Zwisler (7): pmem: add wb_cache_pmem() to the PMEM API dax: support dirty DAX entries in radix tree mm: add find_get_entries_tag() dax: add support for fsync/sync ext2: call dax_pfn_mkwrite() for DAX fsync/msync ext4: call dax_pfn_mkwrite() for DAX fsync/msync xfs: call dax_pfn_mkwrite() for DAX fsync/msync arch/x86/include/asm/pmem.h | 11 ++-- fs/block_dev.c | 3 +- fs/dax.c | 147 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-- fs/ext2/file.c | 4 +- fs/ext4/file.c | 4 +- fs/inode.c | 1 + fs/xfs/xfs_file.c | 7 ++- include/linux/dax.h | 7 +++ include/linux/fs.h | 1 + include/linux/pagemap.h | 3 + include/linux/pmem.h | 22 ++++++- include/linux/radix-tree.h | 9 +++ mm/filemap.c | 84 ++++++++++++++++++++++++- mm/truncate.c | 64 +++++++++++-------- 14 files changed, 319 insertions(+), 48 deletions(-) -- 2.5.0 -- 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>