Re: [PATCH v4 5/5] xfs: disable map_sync for async flush

From: Pankaj Gupta
Date: Thu Apr 04 2019 - 02:12:37 EST



Hi Dave,

> > Virtio pmem provides asynchronous host page cache flush
> > mechanism. we don't support 'MAP_SYNC' with virtio pmem
> > and xfs.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Pankaj Gupta <pagupta@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> > fs/xfs/xfs_file.c | 8 ++++++++
> > 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+)
> >
> > diff --git a/fs/xfs/xfs_file.c b/fs/xfs/xfs_file.c
> > index 1f2e2845eb76..dced2eb8c91a 100644
> > --- a/fs/xfs/xfs_file.c
> > +++ b/fs/xfs/xfs_file.c
> > @@ -1203,6 +1203,14 @@ xfs_file_mmap(
> > if (!IS_DAX(file_inode(filp)) && (vma->vm_flags & VM_SYNC))
> > return -EOPNOTSUPP;
> >
> > + /* We don't support synchronous mappings with DAX files if
> > + * dax_device is not synchronous.
> > + */
> > + if (IS_DAX(file_inode(filp)) && !dax_synchronous(
> > + xfs_find_daxdev_for_inode(file_inode(filp))) &&
> > + (vma->vm_flags & VM_SYNC))
> > + return -EOPNOTSUPP;
> > +
> > file_accessed(filp);
> > vma->vm_ops = &xfs_file_vm_ops;
> > if (IS_DAX(file_inode(filp)))
>
> All this ad hoc IS_DAX conditional logic is getting pretty nasty.
>
> xfs_file_mmap(
> ....
> {
> struct inode *inode = file_inode(filp);
>
> if (vma->vm_flags & VM_SYNC) {
> if (!IS_DAX(inode))
> return -EOPNOTSUPP;
> if (!dax_synchronous(xfs_find_daxdev_for_inode(inode))
> return -EOPNOTSUPP;
> }
>
> file_accessed(filp);
> vma->vm_ops = &xfs_file_vm_ops;
> if (IS_DAX(inode))
> vma->vm_flags |= VM_HUGEPAGE;
> return 0;
> }

Sure, this is better.

>
>
> Even better, factor out all the "MAP_SYNC supported" checks into a
> helper so that the filesystem code just doesn't have to care about
> the details of checking for DAX+MAP_SYNC support....

o.k. Will add one common helper function for both ext4 & xfs filesystems.

Thanks for the suggestion.

Best regards,
Pankaj

>
> Cheers,
>
> Dave.
> --
> Dave Chinner
> david@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>