xfs will silently disable dax when the fs block size is too small,
i.e. your mmap() operations are backed by page cache in this case.
Currently the only indication of whether a mapping is DAX backed or
not is the presence of the VM_MIXEDMAP flag ("mm" in the VmFlags field
of /proc/<pid>/smaps)
I have tried to set blocksize to 2048/4096/8192. When 2048/4096 the mount command remained silent, when 8192 it prompted:
$ sudo mkfs.xfs -f -b size=8192 /dev/pmem0
meta-data="" isize=512 agcount=4, agsize=4096 blks
= sectsz=512 attr=2, projid32bit=1
= crc=1 finobt=1
data = bsize=8192 blocks=16384, imaxpct=25
= sunit=0 swidth=0 blks
naming =version 2 bsize=8192 ascii-ci=0 ftype=1
log =internal log bsize=8192 blocks=558, version=2
= sectsz=512 sunit=0 blks, lazy-count=1
realtime =none extsz=8192 blocks=0, rtextents=0
$ sudo mount -o dax /dev/pmem0 /mnt/mem
mount: mount /dev/pmem0 on /mnt/mem failed: Function not implemented
2015-12-24 8:58 GMT+08:00 Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@xxxxxxxxx>:
On Wed, Dec 23, 2015 at 4:34 PM, Cholerae Hu <choleraehyq@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> The block size is 1024.
> # dumpe2fs -h /dev/pmem0 | grep "Block size"
> dumpe2fs 1.42.13 (17-May-2015)
> Block size: 1024
>
> I tried it out on xfs and I succeeded. There are the prompting messages:
> # mkfs.xfs -f -b size=1024 /dev/pmem0
> meta-data="" isize=512 agcount=4, agsize=32768 blks
> = sectsz=512 attr=2, projid32bit=1
> = crc=1 finobt=1
> data = bsize=1024 blocks=131072, imaxpct=25
> = sunit=0 swidth=0 blks
> naming =version 2 bsize=4096 ascii-ci=0 ftype=1
> log =internal log bsize=1024 blocks=2571, version=2
> = sectsz=512 sunit=0 blks, lazy-count=1
> realtime =none extsz=4096 blocks=0, rtextents=0
> # mount -o dax /dev/pmem0 /mnt/mem
>
> The mount command doesn't return any message, and I can successfully read or
> write files in /mnt/mem.
>
xfs will silently disable dax when the fs block size is too small,
i.e. your mmap() operations are backed by page cache in this case.
Currently the only indication of whether a mapping is DAX backed or
not is the presence of the VM_MIXEDMAP flag ("mm" in the VmFlags field
of /proc/<pid>/smaps)
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