On Fri, 18 Dec 2015 22:22:17 -0700 Ross Zwisler <ross.zwisler@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > To properly handle fsync/msync in an efficient way DAX needs to track dirty > pages so it is able to flush them durably to media on demand. > > The tracking of dirty pages is done via the radix tree in struct > address_space. This radix tree is already used by the page writeback > infrastructure for tracking dirty pages associated with an open file, and > it already has support for exceptional (non struct page*) entries. We > build upon these features to add exceptional entries to the radix tree for > DAX dirty PMD or PTE pages at fault time. I'm getting a few rejects here against other pending changes. Things look OK to me but please do runtime test the end result as it resides in linux-next. Which will be next year. > > ... > > +static void dax_writeback_one(struct address_space *mapping, pgoff_t index, > + void *entry) > +{ > + struct radix_tree_root *page_tree = &mapping->page_tree; > + int type = RADIX_DAX_TYPE(entry); > + struct radix_tree_node *node; > + void **slot; > + > + if (type != RADIX_DAX_PTE && type != RADIX_DAX_PMD) { > + WARN_ON_ONCE(1); > + return; > + } --- a/fs/dax.c~dax-add-support-for-fsync-sync-fix +++ a/fs/dax.c @@ -383,10 +383,8 @@ static void dax_writeback_one(struct add struct radix_tree_node *node; void **slot; - if (type != RADIX_DAX_PTE && type != RADIX_DAX_PMD) { - WARN_ON_ONCE(1); + if (WARN_ON_ONCE(type != RADIX_DAX_PTE && type != RADIX_DAX_PMD)) return; - } spin_lock_irq(&mapping->tree_lock); /* > + spin_lock_irq(&mapping->tree_lock); > + /* > + * Regular page slots are stabilized by the page lock even > + * without the tree itself locked. These unlocked entries > + * need verification under the tree lock. > + */ > + if (!__radix_tree_lookup(page_tree, index, &node, &slot)) > + goto unlock; > + if (*slot != entry) > + goto unlock; > + > + /* another fsync thread may have already written back this entry */ > + if (!radix_tree_tag_get(page_tree, index, PAGECACHE_TAG_TOWRITE)) > + goto unlock; > + > + radix_tree_tag_clear(page_tree, index, PAGECACHE_TAG_TOWRITE); > + > + if (type == RADIX_DAX_PMD) > + wb_cache_pmem(RADIX_DAX_ADDR(entry), PMD_SIZE); > + else > + wb_cache_pmem(RADIX_DAX_ADDR(entry), PAGE_SIZE); > + unlock: > + spin_unlock_irq(&mapping->tree_lock); > +} > + > +/* > + * Flush the mapping to the persistent domain within the byte range of [start, > + * end]. This is required by data integrity operations to ensure file data is > + * on persistent storage prior to completion of the operation. > + */ > +void dax_writeback_mapping_range(struct address_space *mapping, loff_t start, > + loff_t end) > +{ > + struct inode *inode = mapping->host; > + pgoff_t indices[PAGEVEC_SIZE]; > + pgoff_t start_page, end_page; > + struct pagevec pvec; > + void *entry; > + int i; > + > + if (inode->i_blkbits != PAGE_SHIFT) { > + WARN_ON_ONCE(1); > + return; > + } again > + rcu_read_lock(); > + entry = radix_tree_lookup(&mapping->page_tree, start & PMD_MASK); > + rcu_read_unlock(); What stabilizes the memory at *entry after rcu_read_unlock()? > + /* see if the start of our range is covered by a PMD entry */ > + if (entry && RADIX_DAX_TYPE(entry) == RADIX_DAX_PMD) > + start &= PMD_MASK; > + > + start_page = start >> PAGE_CACHE_SHIFT; > + end_page = end >> PAGE_CACHE_SHIFT; > + > + tag_pages_for_writeback(mapping, start_page, end_page); > + > + pagevec_init(&pvec, 0); > + while (1) { > + pvec.nr = find_get_entries_tag(mapping, start_page, > + PAGECACHE_TAG_TOWRITE, PAGEVEC_SIZE, > + pvec.pages, indices); > + > + if (pvec.nr == 0) > + break; > + > + for (i = 0; i < pvec.nr; i++) > + dax_writeback_one(mapping, indices[i], pvec.pages[i]); > + } > + wmb_pmem(); > +} > +EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(dax_writeback_mapping_range); > + > > ... > _______________________________________________ xfs mailing list xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx http://oss.sgi.com/mailman/listinfo/xfs