Re: [PATCH] fsdax: force clear dirty mark if CoW

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On Fri, 24 Mar 2023 10:28:00 +0000 Shiyang Ruan <ruansy.fnst@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> XFS allows CoW on non-shared extents to combat fragmentation[1].  The
> old non-shared extent could be mwrited before, its dax entry is marked
> dirty.  To be able to delete this entry, clear its dirty mark before
> invalidate_inode_pages2_range().

What are the user-visible runtime effects of this flaw?

Are we able to identify a Fixes: target for this?  Perhaps
f80e1668888f3 ("fsdax: invalidate pages when CoW")?



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