Re: [PATCH v5 00/12] vfio, dax: prevent long term filesystem-dax pins and other fixes

[Dan Williams]

On Fri, Mar 2, 2018 at 3:49 PM, Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 2, 2018 at 2:57 PM, Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx> wrote:
>> On Fri, Mar 02, 2018 at 02:21:40PM -0800, Dan Williams wrote:
>>> They are indeed a hodge-podge. The problem is that the current
>>> IS_DAX() is broken. So I'd like to propose fixing IS_DAX() with
>>> IS_FSDAX() + IS_DEVDAX() for 4.16-rc4 and queue up these wider reworks
>>> you propose for the next merge window.
>>
>> The only thing broken about IS_DAX are the code elimination games
>> based on the CONFIG_* flags.  Remove those and just add proper stubs
>> for the dax routines and everything will be fine for now until we can
>> kill that inode flag.
>>
>> IS_FSDAX and IS_DEVDAX on the other hand are a giant mess that isn't
>> helping anyone.
>
> Ok, I'll take another shot at something suitable for 4.16, but without
> these new helpers...

I'll drop patches 2-11 for now, and just get the high priority fixes
in for the next rc.