On Fri, 2016-03-25 at 11:47 -0700, Dan Williams wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 24, 2016 at 4:17 PM, Vishal Verma <vishal.l.verma@intel.c
> om> wrote:
> >
> > From: Matthew Wilcox <matthew.r.wilcox@xxxxxxxxx>
> >
> > dax_clear_sectors() cannot handle poisoned blocks. These must be
> > zeroed using the BIO interface instead. Convert ext2 and XFS to
> > use
> > only sb_issue_zerout().
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox <matthew.r.wilcox@xxxxxxxxx>
> > [vishal: Also remove the dax_clear_sectors function entirely]
> > Signed-off-by: Vishal Verma <vishal.l.verma@xxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> > fs/dax.c | 32 --------------------------------
> > fs/ext2/inode.c | 7 +++----
> > fs/xfs/xfs_bmap_util.c | 9 ---------
> > include/linux/dax.h | 1 -
> > 4 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 46 deletions(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/fs/dax.c b/fs/dax.c
> > index bb7e9f8..a30481e 100644
> > --- a/fs/dax.c
> > +++ b/fs/dax.c
> > @@ -78,38 +78,6 @@ struct page *read_dax_sector(struct block_device
> > *bdev, sector_t n)
> > return page;
> > }
> >
> > -/*
> > - * dax_clear_sectors() is called from within transaction context
> > from XFS,
> > - * and hence this means the stack from this point must follow
> > GFP_NOFS
> > - * semantics for all operations.
> > - */
> > -int dax_clear_sectors(struct block_device *bdev, sector_t _sector,
> > long _size)
> > -{
> > - struct blk_dax_ctl dax = {
> > - .sector = _sector,
> > - .size = _size,
> > - };
> > -
> > - might_sleep();
> > - do {
> > - long count, sz;
> > -
> > - count = dax_map_atomic(bdev, &dax);
> > - if (count < 0)
> > - return count;
> > - sz = min_t(long, count, SZ_128K);
> > - clear_pmem(dax.addr, sz);
> > - dax.size -= sz;
> > - dax.sector += sz / 512;
> > - dax_unmap_atomic(bdev, &dax);
> > - cond_resched();
> > - } while (dax.size);
> > -
> > - wmb_pmem();
> > - return 0;
> > -}
> > -EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(dax_clear_sectors);
> What about the other unwritten extent conversions in the dax path?
> Shouldn't those be converted to block-layer zero-outs as well?
Could you point me to where these might be? I thought once we've
converted all the zeroout type callers (by removing dax_clear_sectors),
and fixed up dax_do_io to try a driver fallback, we've handled all the
media error cases in dax..
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