Re: [PATCH] dax: Fix missed PMD wakeups

From: Dan Williams
Date: Tue Jul 16 2019 - 23:40:03 EST


On Fri, Jul 12, 2019 at 2:14 AM Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Thu 11-07-19 08:25:50, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> > On Thu, Jul 11, 2019 at 07:13:50AM -0700, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> > > However, the XA_RETRY_ENTRY might be a good choice. It doesn't normally
> > > appear in an XArray (it may appear if you're looking at a deleted node,
> > > but since we're holding the lock, we can't see deleted nodes).
> >
> ...
>
> > @@ -254,7 +267,7 @@ static void wait_entry_unlocked(struct xa_state *xas, void *entry)
> > static void put_unlocked_entry(struct xa_state *xas, void *entry)
> > {
> > /* If we were the only waiter woken, wake the next one */
> > - if (entry)
> > + if (entry && dax_is_conflict(entry))
>
> This should be !dax_is_conflict(entry)...
>
> > dax_wake_entry(xas, entry, false);
> > }
>
> Otherwise the patch looks good to me so feel free to add:
>
> Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxx>

Looks good, and passes the test case. Now pushed out to
libnvdimm-for-next for v5.3 inclusion:

https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/nvdimm/nvdimm.git/commit/?h=libnvdimm-for-next&id=23c84eb7837514e16d79ed6d849b13745e0ce688