[PATCH resend 0/7] Fix DM DAX handling

From: Ross Zwisler
Date: Fri May 25 2018 - 18:02:59 EST


No code changes from v1. Just CCing the xfs mailing list & adding one
Reviewed-by from Darrick.

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This series fixes a few issues that I found with DM's handling of DAX
devices. Here are some of the issues I found:

* We can create a dm-stripe or dm-linear device which is made up of an
fsdax PMEM namespace and a raw PMEM namespace but which can hold a
filesystem mounted with the -o dax mount option. DAX operations to
the raw PMEM namespace part lack struct page and can fail in
interesting/unexpected ways when doing things like fork(), examining
memory with gdb, etc.

* We can create a dm-stripe or dm-linear device which is made up of an
fsdax PMEM namespace and a BRD ramdisk which can hold a filesystem
mounted with the -o dax mount option. All I/O to this filesystem
will fail.

* In DM you can't transition a dm target which could possibly support
DAX (mode DM_TYPE_DAX_BIO_BASED) to one which can't support DAX
(mode DM_TYPE_BIO_BASED), even if you never use DAX.

The first 2 patches in this series are prep work from Darrick and Dave
which improve bdev_dax_supported(). The last 5 problems fix the above
mentioned problems in DM. I feel that this series simplifies the
handling of DAX devices in DM, and the last 5 DM-related patches have a
net code reduction of 50 lines.

Darrick J. Wong (1):
fs: allow per-device dax status checking for filesystems

Dave Jiang (1):
dax: change bdev_dax_supported() to support boolean returns

Ross Zwisler (5):
dm: fix test for DAX device support
dm: prevent DAX mounts if not supported
dm: remove DM_TYPE_DAX_BIO_BASED dm_queue_mode
dm-snap: remove unnecessary direct_access() stub
dm-error: remove unnecessary direct_access() stub

drivers/dax/super.c | 44 +++++++++++++++++++++----------------------
drivers/md/dm-ioctl.c | 16 ++++++----------
drivers/md/dm-snap.c | 8 --------
drivers/md/dm-table.c | 29 +++++++++++-----------------
drivers/md/dm-target.c | 7 -------
drivers/md/dm.c | 7 ++-----
fs/ext2/super.c | 3 +--
fs/ext4/super.c | 3 +--
fs/xfs/xfs_ioctl.c | 3 ++-
fs/xfs/xfs_iops.c | 30 ++++++++++++++++++++++++-----
fs/xfs/xfs_super.c | 10 ++++++++--
include/linux/dax.h | 12 ++++--------
include/linux/device-mapper.h | 8 ++++++--
13 files changed, 88 insertions(+), 92 deletions(-)

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