Re: [PATCH V3 4/8] fs/ext4: Update ext4_should_use_dax()

[Ira Weiny]

On Wed, May 20, 2020 at 03:37:28PM +0200, Jan Kara wrote:
> On Tue 19-05-20 22:57:49, ira.weiny@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
> > From: Ira Weiny <ira.weiny@xxxxxxxxx>
> > 
> > S_DAX should only be enabled when the underlying block device supports
> > dax.
> > 
> > Change ext4_should_use_dax() to check for device support prior to the
> > over riding mount option.
> > 
> > While we are at it change the function to ext4_should_enable_dax() as
> > this better reflects the ask as well as matches xfs.
> > 
> > Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxx>
> > Signed-off-by: Ira Weiny <ira.weiny@xxxxxxxxx>
> 
> ...
> 
> > @@ -4412,7 +4410,13 @@ static bool ext4_should_use_dax(struct inode *inode)
> >  		return false;
> >  	if (ext4_test_inode_flag(inode, EXT4_INODE_VERITY))
> >  		return false;
> > -	return true;
> > +	if (!bdev_dax_supported(inode->i_sb->s_bdev,
> > +				inode->i_sb->s_blocksize))
> > +		return false;
> > +	if (test_opt(inode->i_sb, DAX_ALWAYS))
> > +		return true;
> > +
> > +	return false;
> >  }
> 
> Now that I think about it - shouldn't we rather cache the result of
> bdev_dax_supported() in sb on mount and then just check the flag here?
> Because bdev_dax_supported() isn't exactly cheap (it does a lot of checks
> and mappings, tries to read from the pmem, ...).

Sounds reasonable.

Not sure which flags are appropriate.  So add it here?

diff --git a/fs/ext4/ext4.h b/fs/ext4/ext4.h
index 1a3daf2d18ef..0b4db9ce7756 100644
--- a/fs/ext4/ext4.h
+++ b/fs/ext4/ext4.h
@@ -1979,6 +1979,7 @@ static inline bool ext4_has_incompat_features(struct super_block *sb)
  */
 #define EXT4_FLAGS_RESIZING    0
 #define EXT4_FLAGS_SHUTDOWN    1
+#define EXT4_FLAGS_BDEV_IS_DAX 2
 
 static inline int ext4_forced_shutdown(struct ext4_sb_info *sbi)
 {