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Re: [PATCH v4 04/12] ext2: remove support for DAX PMD faults

From Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Newsgroups linux.kernel
Subject Re: [PATCH v4 04/12] ext2: remove support for DAX PMD faults
Date 2016-10-03 11:40 +0200
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On Thu 29-09-16 16:49:22, Ross Zwisler wrote:
> DAX PMD support was added via the following commit:
> 
> commit e7b1ea2ad658 ("ext2: huge page fault support")
> 
> I believe this path to be untested as ext2 doesn't reliably provide block
> allocations that are aligned to 2MiB.  In my testing I've been unable to
> get ext2 to actually fault in a PMD.  It always fails with a "pfn
> unaligned" message because the sector returned by ext2_get_block() isn't
> aligned.
> 
> I've tried various settings for the "stride" and "stripe_width" extended
> options to mkfs.ext2, without any luck.
> 
> Since we can't reliably get PMDs, remove support so that we don't have an
> untested code path that we may someday traverse when we happen to get an
> aligned block allocation.  This should also make 4k DAX faults in ext2 a
> bit faster since they will no longer have to call the PMD fault handler
> only to get a response of VM_FAULT_FALLBACK.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Ross Zwisler <ross.zwisler@linux.intel.com>

Looks good. You can add:

Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>

								Honza

> ---
>  fs/ext2/file.c | 29 ++++++-----------------------
>  1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 23 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/fs/ext2/file.c b/fs/ext2/file.c
> index 0ca363d..0f257f8 100644
> --- a/fs/ext2/file.c
> +++ b/fs/ext2/file.c
> @@ -107,27 +107,6 @@ static int ext2_dax_fault(struct vm_area_struct *vma, struct vm_fault *vmf)
>  	return ret;
>  }
>  
> -static int ext2_dax_pmd_fault(struct vm_area_struct *vma, unsigned long addr,
> -						pmd_t *pmd, unsigned int flags)
> -{
> -	struct inode *inode = file_inode(vma->vm_file);
> -	struct ext2_inode_info *ei = EXT2_I(inode);
> -	int ret;
> -
> -	if (flags & FAULT_FLAG_WRITE) {
> -		sb_start_pagefault(inode->i_sb);
> -		file_update_time(vma->vm_file);
> -	}
> -	down_read(&ei->dax_sem);
> -
> -	ret = dax_pmd_fault(vma, addr, pmd, flags, ext2_get_block);
> -
> -	up_read(&ei->dax_sem);
> -	if (flags & FAULT_FLAG_WRITE)
> -		sb_end_pagefault(inode->i_sb);
> -	return ret;
> -}
> -
>  static int ext2_dax_pfn_mkwrite(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
>  		struct vm_fault *vmf)
>  {
> @@ -154,7 +133,11 @@ static int ext2_dax_pfn_mkwrite(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
>  
>  static const struct vm_operations_struct ext2_dax_vm_ops = {
>  	.fault		= ext2_dax_fault,
> -	.pmd_fault	= ext2_dax_pmd_fault,
> +	/*
> +	 * .pmd_fault is not supported for DAX because allocation in ext2
> +	 * cannot be reliably aligned to huge page sizes and so pmd faults
> +	 * will always fail and fail back to regular faults.
> +	 */
>  	.page_mkwrite	= ext2_dax_fault,
>  	.pfn_mkwrite	= ext2_dax_pfn_mkwrite,
>  };
> @@ -166,7 +149,7 @@ static int ext2_file_mmap(struct file *file, struct vm_area_struct *vma)
>  
>  	file_accessed(file);
>  	vma->vm_ops = &ext2_dax_vm_ops;
> -	vma->vm_flags |= VM_MIXEDMAP | VM_HUGEPAGE;
> +	vma->vm_flags |= VM_MIXEDMAP;
>  	return 0;
>  }
>  #else
> -- 
> 2.7.4
> 
> 
-- 
Jan Kara <jack@suse.com>
SUSE Labs, CR

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[PATCH v4 00/12] re-enable DAX PMD support Ross Zwisler <ross.zwisler@linux.intel.com> - 2016-09-30 00:50 +0200
  [PATCH v4 06/12] dax: consistent variable naming for DAX entries Ross Zwisler <ross.zwisler@linux.intel.com> - 2016-09-30 01:00 +0200
    Re: [PATCH v4 06/12] dax: consistent variable naming for DAX entries Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> - 2016-10-03 11:40 +0200
  [PATCH v4 02/12] ext4: tell DAX the size of allocation holes Ross Zwisler <ross.zwisler@linux.intel.com> - 2016-09-30 01:00 +0200
  [PATCH v4 05/12] dax: make 'wait_table' global variable static Ross Zwisler <ross.zwisler@linux.intel.com> - 2016-09-30 01:00 +0200
    Re: [PATCH v4 05/12] dax: make 'wait_table' global variable static Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> - 2016-10-03 11:40 +0200
  [PATCH v4 12/12] dax: remove "depends on BROKEN" from FS_DAX_PMD Ross Zwisler <ross.zwisler@linux.intel.com> - 2016-09-30 01:00 +0200
  [PATCH v4 09/12] dax: correct dax iomap code namespace Ross Zwisler <ross.zwisler@linux.intel.com> - 2016-09-30 01:00 +0200
    Re: [PATCH v4 09/12] dax: correct dax iomap code namespace Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> - 2016-09-30 11:00 +0200
    Re: [PATCH v4 09/12] dax: correct dax iomap code namespace Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> - 2016-10-03 12:00 +0200
  [PATCH v4 07/12] dax: coordinate locking for offsets in PMD range Ross Zwisler <ross.zwisler@linux.intel.com> - 2016-09-30 01:00 +0200
    Re: [PATCH v4 07/12] dax: coordinate locking for offsets in PMD range Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> - 2016-09-30 11:50 +0200
    Re: [PATCH v4 07/12] dax: coordinate locking for offsets in PMD range Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> - 2016-10-03 12:00 +0200
      Re: [PATCH v4 07/12] dax: coordinate locking for offsets in PMD range Ross Zwisler <ross.zwisler@linux.intel.com> - 2016-10-03 20:50 +0200
  [PATCH v4 01/12] ext4: allow DAX writeback for hole punch Ross Zwisler <ross.zwisler@linux.intel.com> - 2016-09-30 01:00 +0200
  [PATCH v4 04/12] ext2: remove support for DAX PMD faults Ross Zwisler <ross.zwisler@linux.intel.com> - 2016-09-30 01:00 +0200
    Re: [PATCH v4 04/12] ext2: remove support for DAX PMD faults Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> - 2016-10-03 11:40 +0200
  [PATCH v4 03/12] dax: remove buffer_size_valid() Ross Zwisler <ross.zwisler@linux.intel.com> - 2016-09-30 01:00 +0200
    Re: [PATCH v4 03/12] dax: remove buffer_size_valid() Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> - 2016-09-30 10:50 +0200
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    Re: [PATCH v4 10/12] dax: add struct iomap based DAX PMD support Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> - 2016-09-30 12:00 +0200
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    Re: [PATCH v4 10/12] dax: add struct iomap based DAX PMD support Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> - 2016-10-03 13:10 +0200
      Re: [PATCH v4 10/12] dax: add struct iomap based DAX PMD support Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> - 2016-10-03 18:40 +0200
      Re: [PATCH v4 10/12] dax: add struct iomap based DAX PMD support Ross Zwisler <ross.zwisler@linux.intel.com> - 2016-10-03 23:10 +0200
        Re: [PATCH v4 10/12] dax: add struct iomap based DAX PMD support Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> - 2016-10-04 08:00 +0200
          Re: [PATCH v4 10/12] dax: add struct iomap based DAX PMD support Ross Zwisler <ross.zwisler@linux.intel.com> - 2016-10-04 17:40 +0200
            Re: [PATCH v4 10/12] dax: add struct iomap based DAX PMD support Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> - 2016-10-05 08:00 +0200
        Re: [PATCH v4 10/12] dax: add struct iomap based DAX PMD support Ross Zwisler <ross.zwisler@linux.intel.com> - 2016-10-06 23:40 +0200
          Re: [PATCH v4 10/12] dax: add struct iomap based DAX PMD support Ross Zwisler <ross.zwisler@linux.intel.com> - 2016-10-07 05:00 +0200
            Re: [PATCH v4 10/12] dax: add struct iomap based DAX PMD support Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> - 2016-10-07 09:50 +0200
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    Re: [PATCH v4 08/12] dax: remove dax_pmd_fault() Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> - 2016-10-03 12:00 +0200
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