Re: [PATCH] xfs: dax: facilitate EXPERIMENTAL warning for dax=inode case

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On 8/27/21 9:03 AM, Bill O'Donnell wrote:
On Thu, Aug 26, 2021 at 06:43:44PM -0500, Eric Sandeen wrote:
On 8/26/21 5:08 PM, Bill O'Donnell wrote:
On Thu, Aug 26, 2021 at 01:16:22PM -0500, Eric Sandeen wrote:

On 8/26/21 1:09 PM, Darrick J. Wong wrote:
On Thu, Aug 26, 2021 at 12:30:12PM -0500, Bill O'Donnell wrote:

@@ -1584,7 +1586,7 @@ xfs_fs_fill_super(
    	if (xfs_has_crc(mp))
    		sb->s_flags |= SB_I_VERSION;
-	if (xfs_has_dax_always(mp)) {
+	if (xfs_has_dax_always(mp) || xfs_has_dax_inode(mp)) {

Er... can't this be done without burning another feature bit by:

	if (xfs_has_dax_always(mp) || (!xfs_has_dax_always(mp) &&
				       !xfs_has_dax_never(mp))) {
		...
		xfs_warn(mp, "DAX IS EXPERIMENTAL");
	}

changing this conditional in this way will also fail dax=inode mounts on
reflink-capable (i.e. default) filesystems, no?

Correct. My original patch tests fine, and still handles the reflink and dax
incompatibility. The new suggested logic is problematic.
-Bill

I think that both your proposed patch and Darrick's suggestion have this problem.

"mount -o dax=inode" makes your new xfs_has_dax_inode(mp) true, and in that
conditional, if the filesystem has reflink enabled, mount fails:

# mkfs.xfs -f /dev/pmem0p1
meta-data=/dev/pmem0p1           isize=512    agcount=4, agsize=4194304 blks
          =                       sectsz=4096  attr=2, projid32bit=1
          =                       crc=1        finobt=1, sparse=1, rmapbt=0
          =                       reflink=1    bigtime=0 inobtcount=0
data     =                       bsize=4096   blocks=16777216, imaxpct=25
          =                       sunit=0      swidth=0 blks
naming   =version 2              bsize=4096   ascii-ci=0, ftype=1
log      =internal log           bsize=4096   blocks=8192, version=2
          =                       sectsz=4096  sunit=1 blks, lazy-count=1
realtime =none                   extsz=4096   blocks=0, rtextents=0

# mount -o dax=inode /dev/pmem0p1 /mnt/test
mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/pmem0p1,
        missing codepage or helper program, or other error

        In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try
        dmesg | tail or so.

# dmesg | tail -n 2
[  192.691733] XFS (pmem0p1): DAX enabled. Warning: EXPERIMENTAL, use at your own risk
[  192.700300] XFS (pmem0p1): DAX and reflink cannot be used together!


So, the "DAX enabled" is a misnomer in this case. However the incompatibility of DAX and reflink is
reflected in the next message, and indeed the mount fails. Is it now a matter of fixing
the message output so as not to indicate "DAX enabled..."?

The mount should not fail, and it does not fail prior to your change.

In the past, we did not allow any mixing of a reflink-capable
filesystem with dax in any way.  Now, with per-inode dax, dax-enabled inodes and
reflink-enabled inodes can exist on the same filesystem, you just cannot have an
inode which is both dax-enabled and reflinked at the same time.

-Eric



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