On Mon, Aug 17, 2020 at 01:30:45PM +0200, Carlos Maiolino wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 13, 2020 at 04:27:44PM -0700, Darrick J. Wong wrote:
> > From: Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@xxxxxxxxxx>
> >
> > Teach mkfs to set the DAX flag on the root directory so that all new
> > files can be created in dax mode. This is a complement to removing the
> > mount option.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> > man/man8/mkfs.xfs.8 | 10 ++++++++++
> > mkfs/xfs_mkfs.c | 14 ++++++++++++++
> > 2 files changed, 24 insertions(+)
> >
> >
> > diff --git a/man/man8/mkfs.xfs.8 b/man/man8/mkfs.xfs.8
> > index 7d3f3552ff12..3ad9e5449f58 100644
> > --- a/man/man8/mkfs.xfs.8
> > +++ b/man/man8/mkfs.xfs.8
> > @@ -398,6 +398,16 @@ will have this extent size hint applied.
> > The value must be provided in units of filesystem blocks.
> > Directories will pass on this hint to newly created regular files and
> > directories.
> > +.TP
> > +.BI daxinherit= value
> > +If set, all inodes created by
> > +.B mkfs.xfs
> > +will be created with the DAX flag set.
> > +Directories will pass on this flag on to newly created regular files
>
> I'm not English native speaker, but 'pass on this flag on' looks weird to me,
> 'pass this flag on' sounds better, but again, I'm no native speaker, and I might
> well be just adding noise here :)
It /is/ strange, thanks for the correction and the review.
--D
> Other than that, everything else looks fine.
>
> Reviewed-by: Carlos Maiolino <cmaiolino@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> > +and directories.
> > +By default,
> > +.B mkfs.xfs
> > +will not enable DAX mode.
> > .RE
> > .TP
> > .B \-f
> > diff --git a/mkfs/xfs_mkfs.c b/mkfs/xfs_mkfs.c
> > index 2e6cd280e388..a687f385a9c1 100644
> > --- a/mkfs/xfs_mkfs.c
> > +++ b/mkfs/xfs_mkfs.c
> > @@ -60,6 +60,7 @@ enum {
> > D_PROJINHERIT,
> > D_EXTSZINHERIT,
> > D_COWEXTSIZE,
> > + D_DAXINHERIT,
> > D_MAX_OPTS,
> > };
> >
> > @@ -254,6 +255,7 @@ static struct opt_params dopts = {
> > [D_PROJINHERIT] = "projinherit",
> > [D_EXTSZINHERIT] = "extszinherit",
> > [D_COWEXTSIZE] = "cowextsize",
> > + [D_DAXINHERIT] = "daxinherit",
> > },
> > .subopt_params = {
> > { .index = D_AGCOUNT,
> > @@ -369,6 +371,12 @@ static struct opt_params dopts = {
> > .maxval = UINT_MAX,
> > .defaultval = SUBOPT_NEEDS_VAL,
> > },
> > + { .index = D_DAXINHERIT,
> > + .conflicts = { { NULL, LAST_CONFLICT } },
> > + .minval = 0,
> > + .maxval = 1,
> > + .defaultval = 1,
> > + },
> > },
> > };
> >
> > @@ -1434,6 +1442,12 @@ data_opts_parser(
> > cli->fsx.fsx_cowextsize = getnum(value, opts, subopt);
> > cli->fsx.fsx_xflags |= FS_XFLAG_COWEXTSIZE;
> > break;
> > + case D_DAXINHERIT:
> > + if (getnum(value, opts, subopt))
> > + cli->fsx.fsx_xflags |= FS_XFLAG_DAX;
> > + else
> > + cli->fsx.fsx_xflags &= ~FS_XFLAG_DAX;
> > + break;
> > default:
> > return -EINVAL;
> > }
> >
>
> --
> Carlos
>
