On Thu, May 31, 2018 at 09:02:52PM -0700, Dan Williams wrote:

On Thu, May 31, 2018 at 7:24 PM, Dave Chinner [off-list ref] wrote:

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On Thu, May 31, 2018 at 06:57:33PM -0700, Dan Williams wrote:

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FWIW, XFS+DAX used to just work on this setup (I hadn't even
installed ndctl until this morning!) but after changing the kernel
it no longer works. That would make it a regression, yes?

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I suspect your kernel does not have CONFIG_ZONE_DEVICE enabled which
has the following dependencies:

        depends on MEMORY_HOTPLUG
        depends on MEMORY_HOTREMOVE
        depends on SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP

Filesystem DAX now has a dependency on memory hotplug?

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OK, works now I've found the magic config incantantions to turn
everything I now need on.

By enabling these options, my test VM now has a ~30s pause in the
boot very soon after the nvdimm subsystem is initialised.

[    1.523718] Serial: 8250/16550 driver, 4 ports, IRQ sharing enabled
[    1.550353] 00:05: ttyS0 at I/O 0x3f8 (irq = 4, base_baud = 115200) is a 16550A
[    1.552175] Non-volatile memory driver v1.3
[    2.332045] tsc: Refined TSC clocksource calibration: 2199.909 MHz
[    2.333280] clocksource: tsc: mask: 0xffffffffffffffff max_cycles: 0x1fb5dcd4620, max_idle_ns: 440795264143 ns
[   37.217453] brd: module loaded
[   37.225423] loop: module loaded
[   37.228441] virtio_blk virtio2: [vda] 10485760 512-byte logical blocks (5.37 GB/5.00 GiB)
[   37.245418] virtio_blk virtio3: [vdb] 146800640 512-byte logical blocks (75.2 GB/70.0 GiB)
[   37.255794] virtio_blk virtio4: [vdc] 1073741824000 512-byte logical blocks (550 TB/500 TiB)
[   37.265403] nd_pmem namespace1.0: unable to guarantee persistence of writes
[   37.265618] nd_pmem namespace0.0: unable to guarantee persistence of writes

The system does not appear to be consuming CPU, but it is blocking
NMIs so I can't get a CPU trace. For a VM that I rely on booting in
a few seconds because I reboot it tens of times a day, this is a
problem....

Cheers,

Dave.
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Dave Chinner
david@fromorbit.com