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* [PATCH 0/3] DAX: Fix mmap-write not updating c/mtime
@ 2015-03-04 16:33 Boaz Harrosh
  2015-03-04 16:37 ` [PATCH 1/3] xfstests: generic/080 test that mmap-write updates c/mtime Boaz Harrosh
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  0 siblings, 3 replies; 13+ messages in thread
From: Boaz Harrosh @ 2015-03-04 16:33 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Dave Chinner, Matthew Wilcox, Andrew Morton, Kirill A. Shutemov,
	Jan Kara, Hugh Dickins, Mel Gorman, linux-mm, linux-nvdimm,
	linux-fsdevel

Hi

First submitted an xfstest (generic/080) that demonstrates our current problem.

   When run on ext4-dax mount, and I'd imagine Dave's xfs-dax mount this test
   fails, on regular mount it works just fine.

then 2 patches to fix it.

The main problem is that current mm/memory.c will no call us with page_mkwrite
if we do not have an actual page mapping, which is what DAX uses.
The solution presented here introduces a new pfn_mkwrite to solve this problem.
Please see patch-2 for details.

I've been running with this patch for 4 month both HW and VMs with no apparent
danger, but see patch-2 I played it safe.

List of patches:
[PATCH 1/2] generic: 080 test that mmap-write updates c/mtime

	This one is for Dave Chinner to submit to xfstests

[PATCH 1/2] mm: New pfn_mkwrite same as page_mkwrite for VM_PFNMAP

	This patch I need help with please look into it?

[PATCH 2/2] dax: use pfn_mkwrite to update mtime

Please review and comment.

Thanks
Boaz

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2015-03-04 16:33 [PATCH 0/3] DAX: Fix mmap-write not updating c/mtime Boaz Harrosh
2015-03-04 16:37 ` [PATCH 1/3] xfstests: generic/080 test that mmap-write updates c/mtime Boaz Harrosh
2015-03-05  0:13   ` Dave Chinner
2015-03-05 14:02     ` [PATCH 1/3 v2] xfstest: " Boaz Harrosh
2015-03-05 14:12       ` Boaz Harrosh
2015-03-04 16:41 ` [PATCH 2/3] mm: New pfn_mkwrite same as page_mkwrite for VM_PFNMAP Boaz Harrosh
2015-03-04 16:48 ` [PATCH 3/3] DAX: use pfn_mkwrite to update c/mtime Boaz Harrosh
2015-03-04 17:19   ` Jan Kara
2015-03-05  9:24     ` [PATCH 3/3 v2] dax: use pfn_mkwrite to update c/mtime + freeze protection Boaz Harrosh
2015-03-05  9:32       ` Boaz Harrosh
2015-03-05 10:35         ` Jan Kara
2015-03-05 10:47           ` Boaz Harrosh
2015-03-05 10:56             ` Jan Kara

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