Thread (21 messages) 21 messages, 3 authors, 2016-08-18

Re: [PATCH 1/7] ext2: tell DAX the size of allocation holes

From: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Date: 2016-08-16 09:10:25
Also in: linux-ext4, linux-fsdevel, lkml, nvdimm

On Mon 15-08-16 13:09:12, Ross Zwisler wrote:
quoted hunk ↗ jump to hunk
When DAX calls ext2_get_block() and the file offset points to a hole we
currently don't set bh_result->b_size.  When we re-enable PMD faults DAX
will need bh_result->b_size to tell it the size of the hole so it can
decide whether to fault in a 4 KiB zero page or a 2 MiB zero page.

For ext2 we always want DAX to use 4 KiB zero pages, so we just tell DAX
that all holes are 4 KiB in size.

Signed-off-by: Ross Zwisler <redacted>
---
 fs/ext2/inode.c | 6 ++++++
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)
diff --git a/fs/ext2/inode.c b/fs/ext2/inode.c
index d5c7d09..c6d9763 100644
--- a/fs/ext2/inode.c
+++ b/fs/ext2/inode.c
@@ -773,6 +773,12 @@ int ext2_get_block(struct inode *inode, sector_t iblock, struct buffer_head *bh_
 	if (ret > 0) {
 		bh_result->b_size = (ret << inode->i_blkbits);
 		ret = 0;
+	} else if (ret == 0 && IS_DAX(inode)) {
I'd just drop the IS_DAX() check and set

	bh_result->b_size = 1 << inode->i_blkbits;

IMO it's better to have things consistent between DAX & !DAX whenever
possible.

								Honza
+		/*
+		 * We have hit a hole.  Tell DAX it is 4k in size so that it
+		 * uses PTE faults.
+		 */
+		bh_result->b_size = PAGE_SIZE;
 	}
 	return ret;
 
-- 
2.9.0
-- 
Jan Kara [off-list ref]
SUSE Labs, CR

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