Re: [PATCH 0/6] Support DAX for device-mapper dm-linear devices
From: Kani, Toshimitsu
Date: Mon Jun 20 2016 - 18:05:52 EST
On Mon, 2016-06-20 at 14:01 -0600, Kani, Toshimitsu wrote:
> On Mon, 2016-06-20 at 15:52 -0400, Mike Snitzer wrote:
> >
> > On Mon, Jun 20 2016 atÂÂ3:40pm -0400,
> > Mike Snitzer <snitzer@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Â
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> > > If I don't use XFS, and only issue IO directly to the /dev/pmem/lv, I
> > > don't see this corruption.
> >
> > I did the same test with ext4 instead of xfs and it resulted in the same
> > type of systemic corruption (lvm2 metadata corrupted too):
> >
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> I will look into the issue.
Hi Mike,
Can you fold the following patch to the dm-linear patch?
Thanks,
-Tsohi
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Subject: [PATCH] dm-linear: Fix partition handling for DAX
Partition handling was missing in linear_direct_access().
Call bdev_direct_access(), instead of directly calling
target direct_access function.
Signed-off-by: Toshi Kani <toshi.kani@xxxxxxx>
---
Âdrivers/md/dm-linear.c |ÂÂÂ14 ++++++++++----
Â1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/md/dm-linear.c b/drivers/md/dm-linear.c
index 325aa06..38323e4 100644
--- a/drivers/md/dm-linear.c
+++ b/drivers/md/dm-linear.c
@@ -148,10 +148,16 @@ static long linear_direct_access(struct dm_target *ti,
sector_t sector,
Â{
 struct linear_c *lc = ti->private;
 struct block_device *bdev = lc->dev->bdev;
- const struct block_device_operations *bd_ops = bdev->bd_disk->fops;
-
- return bd_ops->direct_access(bdev, linear_map_sector(ti, sector),
- ÂÂÂÂÂkaddr, pfn, size);
+ struct blk_dax_ctl dax = {
+ .sector = linear_map_sector(ti, sector),
+ .size = size,
+ };
+ long ret;
+
+ ret = bdev_direct_access(bdev, &dax);
+ *kaddr = dax.addr;
+ *pfn = dax.pfn;
+ return ret;
Â}
Â
Âstatic struct target_type linear_target = {