On Fri, Nov 10, 2017 at 1:08 AM, Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx> wrote: >> + struct { >> + /* >> + * ZONE_DEVICE pages are never on an lru or handled by >> + * a slab allocator, this points to the hosting device >> + * page map. >> + */ >> + struct dev_pagemap *pgmap; >> + /* >> + * inode association for MEMORY_DEVICE_FS_DAX page-idle >> + * callbacks. Note that we don't use ->mapping since >> + * that has hard coded page-cache assumptions in >> + * several paths. >> + */ > > What assumptions? I'd much rather fix those up than having two fields > that have the same functionality. [ Reviving this old thread where you asked why I introduce page->inode instead of reusing page->mapping ] For example, xfs_vm_set_page_dirty() assumes that page->mapping being non-NULL indicates a typical page cache page, this is a false assumption for DAX. My guess at a fix for this is to add pagecache_page() checks to locations like this, but I worry about how to find them all. Where pagecache_page() is: bool pagecache_page(struct page *page) { if (!page->mapping) return false; if (!IS_DAX(page->mapping->host)) return false; return true; } Otherwise we go off the rails: WARNING: CPU: 27 PID: 1783 at fs/xfs/xfs_aops.c:1468 xfs_vm_set_page_dirty+0xf3/0x1b0 [xfs] [..] CPU: 27 PID: 1783 Comm: dma-collision Tainted: G O 4.15.0-rc2+ #984 [..] Call Trace: set_page_dirty_lock+0x40/0x60 bio_set_pages_dirty+0x37/0x50 iomap_dio_actor+0x2b7/0x3b0 ? iomap_dio_zero+0x110/0x110 iomap_apply+0xa4/0x110 iomap_dio_rw+0x29e/0x3b0 ? iomap_dio_zero+0x110/0x110 ? xfs_file_dio_aio_read+0x7c/0x1a0 [xfs] xfs_file_dio_aio_read+0x7c/0x1a0 [xfs] xfs_file_read_iter+0xa0/0xc0 [xfs] __vfs_read+0xf9/0x170 vfs_read+0xa6/0x150 SyS_pread64+0x93/0xb0 entry_SYSCALL_64_fastpath+0x1f/0x96 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-xfs" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html