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RE: [PATCH v2 2/9] ext2: tell DAX the size of allocation holes

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From: Christoph Hellwig [mailto:hch@infradead.org]
> On Fri, Sep 09, 2016 at 03:34:43PM -0700, Dan Williams wrote:
> > I agree with you that continuing to touch ext2 is not a good idea, but
> > I'm not yet convinced that now is the time to go do dax-2.0 when we
> > haven't finished shipping dax-1.0.
> 
> I've mentioned this before, but I'd like to repeat it.  With all the work reqwuired
> in the file system I would prefer to drop DAX support in ext2 (and if people
> really cry for it reinstate the trivial old xip support).

That allegedly trivial old xip support was horrendously broken.  And, er, it used an aop
which you seem implacably opposed to in your earlier email.  And that was truly a
disgusting one from a layering point of view.  Let me remind you:

-       int (*get_xip_mem)(struct address_space *, pgoff_t, int,
-                                               void **, unsigned long *);

That void ** was an 'out' parameter to store a kernel address for the memory.  The
unsigned long * was also an 'out' parameter to store the PFN for the memory.  The
'int' was actually a Boolean for whether to create or not, but you'd actually have to
go look at the implementation to find that out; the documentation never said it.  A
real dog's breakfast of an API.

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Re: [PATCH v2 2/9] ext2: tell DAX the size of allocation holes Ross Zwisler <ross.zwisler@linux.intel.com> - 2016-09-09 18:50 +0200
  RE: [PATCH v2 2/9] ext2: tell DAX the size of allocation holes Matthew Wilcox <mawilcox@microsoft.com> - 2016-09-09 22:40 +0200
    Re: [PATCH v2 2/9] ext2: tell DAX the size of allocation holes Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com> - 2016-09-10 00:40 +0200
      Re: [PATCH v2 2/9] ext2: tell DAX the size of allocation holes Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> - 2016-09-10 09:40 +0200
        RE: [PATCH v2 2/9] ext2: tell DAX the size of allocation holes Matthew Wilcox <mawilcox@microsoft.com> - 2016-09-10 10:00 +0200
        Re: [PATCH v2 2/9] ext2: tell DAX the size of allocation holes Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu> - 2016-09-10 20:00 +0200
          RE: [PATCH v2 2/9] ext2: tell DAX the size of allocation holes Matthew Wilcox <mawilcox@microsoft.com> - 2016-09-11 02:50 +0200
      RE: [PATCH v2 2/9] ext2: tell DAX the size of allocation holes Matthew Wilcox <mawilcox@microsoft.com> - 2016-09-10 10:20 +0200
        Re: [PATCH v2 2/9] ext2: tell DAX the size of allocation holes Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com> - 2016-09-10 17:00 +0200
    Re: [PATCH v2 2/9] ext2: tell DAX the size of allocation holes Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> - 2016-09-10 09:40 +0200
      RE: [PATCH v2 2/9] ext2: tell DAX the size of allocation holes Matthew Wilcox <mawilcox@microsoft.com> - 2016-09-10 09:40 +0200
        Re: [PATCH v2 2/9] ext2: tell DAX the size of allocation holes Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> - 2016-09-10 09:50 +0200
          RE: [PATCH v2 2/9] ext2: tell DAX the size of allocation holes Matthew Wilcox <mawilcox@microsoft.com> - 2016-09-10 10:00 +0200
            Re: [PATCH v2 2/9] ext2: tell DAX the size of allocation holes Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> - 2016-09-11 14:50 +0200
              Re: [PATCH v2 2/9] ext2: tell DAX the size of allocation holes Ross Zwisler <ross.zwisler@linux.intel.com> - 2016-09-12 01:00 +0200
      RE: [PATCH v2 2/9] ext2: tell DAX the size of allocation holes Matthew Wilcox <mawilcox@microsoft.com> - 2016-09-10 18:00 +0200

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