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From: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
To: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org,
	Ross Zwisler <ross.zwisler@linux.intel.com>,
	linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/6 v3] dax: Page invalidation fixes
Date: Mon, 12 Dec 2016 12:51:33 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20161212175133.GB8688@cmpxchg.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20161212164708.23244-1-jack@suse.cz>

On Mon, Dec 12, 2016 at 05:47:02PM +0100, Jan Kara wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> this is the third revision of my fixes of races when invalidating hole pages in
> DAX mappings. See changelogs for details. The series is based on my patches to
> write-protect DAX PTEs which are currently carried in mm tree. This is a hard
> dependency because we really need to closely track dirtiness (and cleanness!)
> of radix tree entries in DAX mappings in order to avoid discarding valid dirty
> bits leading to missed cache flushes on fsync(2).
> 
> The tests have passed xfstests for xfs and ext4 in DAX and non-DAX mode.
> 
> Johannes, are you OK with patch 2/6 in its current form? I'd like to push these
> patches to some tree once DAX write-protection patches are merged.  I'm hoping
> to get at least first three patches merged for 4.10-rc2... Thanks!

LGTM, thanks Jan

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2016-12-12 17:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-12-12 16:47 Jan Kara
2016-12-12 16:47 ` [PATCH 1/6] ext2: Return BH_New buffers for zeroed blocks Jan Kara
2016-12-12 16:47 ` [PATCH 2/6] mm: Invalidate DAX radix tree entries only if appropriate Jan Kara
2016-12-12 17:50   ` Johannes Weiner
2016-12-12 16:47 ` [PATCH 3/6] dax: Avoid page invalidation races and unnecessary radix tree traversals Jan Kara
2016-12-12 16:47 ` [PATCH 4/6] dax: Finish fault completely when loading holes Jan Kara
2016-12-12 16:47 ` [PATCH 5/6] dax: Call ->iomap_begin without entry lock during dax fault Jan Kara
2016-12-12 16:47 ` [PATCH 6/6] ext4: Simplify DAX fault path Jan Kara
2016-12-12 17:51 ` Johannes Weiner [this message]
2016-12-13 11:52 ` [PATCH 0/6 v3] dax: Page invalidation fixes Jan Kara
2016-12-13 18:57   ` Dan Williams
2016-12-17  1:35     ` Dan Williams
2016-12-17  1:49       ` Dan Williams
2016-12-19  9:56       ` Jan Kara
2016-12-19 21:51         ` Dan Williams
2016-12-20  7:59           ` Jan Kara
2016-12-20 20:09             ` Dan Williams
2016-12-13 20:01   ` Dave Chinner
2016-12-13 20:42   ` Theodore Ts'o

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