Re: [PATCH 0/7] fsdax,xfs: Add reflink&dedupe support for fsdax

[Jan Kara]

On Mon 08-02-21 01:09:17, Shiyang Ruan wrote:
> This patchset is attempt to add CoW support for fsdax, and take XFS,
> which has both reflink and fsdax feature, as an example.
> 
> One of the key mechanism need to be implemented in fsdax is CoW.  Copy
> the data from srcmap before we actually write data to the destance
> iomap.  And we just copy range in which data won't be changed.
> 
> Another mechanism is range comparison .  In page cache case, readpage()
> is used to load data on disk to page cache in order to be able to
> compare data.  In fsdax case, readpage() does not work.  So, we need
> another compare data with direct access support.
> 
> With the two mechanism implemented in fsdax, we are able to make reflink
> and fsdax work together in XFS.
> 
> Some of the patches are picked up from Goldwyn's patchset.  I made some
> changes to adapt to this patchset.

How do you deal with HWPoison code trying to reverse-map struct page back
to inode-offset pair? This also needs to be fixed for reflink to work with
DAX.

								Honza

> 
> (Rebased on v5.10)
> ==
> 
> Shiyang Ruan (7):
>   fsdax: Output address in dax_iomap_pfn() and rename it
>   fsdax: Introduce dax_copy_edges() for CoW
>   fsdax: Copy data before write
>   fsdax: Replace mmap entry in case of CoW
>   fsdax: Dedup file range to use a compare function
>   fs/xfs: Handle CoW for fsdax write() path
>   fs/xfs: Add dedupe support for fsdax
> 
>  fs/btrfs/reflink.c     |   3 +-
>  fs/dax.c               | 188 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++---
>  fs/ocfs2/file.c        |   2 +-
>  fs/remap_range.c       |  14 +--
>  fs/xfs/xfs_bmap_util.c |   6 +-
>  fs/xfs/xfs_file.c      |  30 ++++++-
>  fs/xfs/xfs_inode.c     |   8 +-
>  fs/xfs/xfs_inode.h     |   1 +
>  fs/xfs/xfs_iomap.c     |   3 +-
>  fs/xfs/xfs_iops.c      |  11 ++-
>  fs/xfs/xfs_reflink.c   |  23 ++++-
>  include/linux/dax.h    |   5 ++
>  include/linux/fs.h     |   9 +-
>  13 files changed, 270 insertions(+), 33 deletions(-)
> 
> -- 
> 2.30.0
> 
> 
> 
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Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxxx>
SUSE Labs, CR