Re: [PATCH v4 07/12] dax: coordinate locking for offsets in PMD range
From: Ross Zwisler
Date: Mon Oct 03 2016 - 14:40:23 EST
On Mon, Oct 03, 2016 at 11:55:18AM +0200, Jan Kara wrote:
> On Thu 29-09-16 16:49:25, Ross Zwisler wrote:
> > DAX radix tree locking currently locks entries based on the unique
> > combination of the 'mapping' pointer and the pgoff_t 'index' for the entry.
> > This works for PTEs, but as we move to PMDs we will need to have all the
> > offsets within the range covered by the PMD to map to the same bit lock.
> > To accomplish this, for ranges covered by a PMD entry we will instead lock
> > based on the page offset of the beginning of the PMD entry. The 'mapping'
> > pointer is still used in the same way.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Ross Zwisler <ross.zwisler@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> > fs/dax.c | 37 ++++++++++++++++++++++++-------------
> > include/linux/dax.h | 2 +-
> > mm/filemap.c | 2 +-
> > 3 files changed, 26 insertions(+), 15 deletions(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/fs/dax.c b/fs/dax.c
> > index baef586..406feea 100644
> > --- a/fs/dax.c
> > +++ b/fs/dax.c
> > @@ -64,10 +64,17 @@ static int __init init_dax_wait_table(void)
> > }
> > fs_initcall(init_dax_wait_table);
> >
> > +static pgoff_t dax_entry_start(pgoff_t index, void *entry)
> > +{
> > + if (RADIX_DAX_TYPE(entry) == RADIX_DAX_PMD)
> > + index &= (PMD_MASK >> PAGE_SHIFT);
>
> Hum, but if we shift right, top bits of PMD_MASK will become zero - not
> something we want I guess... You rather want to mask with something like:
> ~((1UL << (PMD_SHIFT - PAGE_SHIFT)) - 1)
Great catch, thanks. Fixed for v5.
> > @@ -447,10 +457,11 @@ restart:
> > return entry;
> > }
> >
> > -void dax_wake_mapping_entry_waiter(struct address_space *mapping,
> > +void dax_wake_mapping_entry_waiter(void *entry, struct address_space *mapping,
> > pgoff_t index, bool wake_all)
>
> Nitpick: Ordering of arguments would look more logical to me like:
>
> dax_wake_mapping_entry_waiter(mapping, index, entry, wake_all)
Cool, I'll reorder them for v5.
Thanks for the review!