Re: [PATCH] xfs: dax: facilitate EXPERIMENTAL warning for dax=inode case
From: Eric Sandeen <hidden>
Date: 2021-08-27 14:18:34
On 8/27/21 9:03 AM, Bill O'Donnell wrote:
On Thu, Aug 26, 2021 at 06:43:44PM -0500, Eric Sandeen wrote:quoted
On 8/26/21 5:08 PM, Bill O'Donnell wrote:quoted
On Thu, Aug 26, 2021 at 01:16:22PM -0500, Eric Sandeen wrote:quoted
On 8/26/21 1:09 PM, Darrick J. Wong wrote:quoted
On Thu, Aug 26, 2021 at 12:30:12PM -0500, Bill O'Donnell wrote:quoted
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@@ -1584,7 +1586,7 @@ xfs_fs_fill_super( if (xfs_has_crc(mp)) sb->s_flags |= SB_I_VERSION; - if (xfs_has_dax_always(mp)) { + if (xfs_has_dax_always(mp) || xfs_has_dax_inode(mp)) {Er... can't this be done without burning another feature bit by: if (xfs_has_dax_always(mp) || (!xfs_has_dax_always(mp) && !xfs_has_dax_never(mp))) { ... xfs_warn(mp, "DAX IS EXPERIMENTAL"); }changing this conditional in this way will also fail dax=inode mounts on reflink-capable (i.e. default) filesystems, no?Correct. My original patch tests fine, and still handles the reflink and dax incompatibility. The new suggested logic is problematic. -BillI think that both your proposed patch and Darrick's suggestion have this problem. "mount -o dax=inode" makes your new xfs_has_dax_inode(mp) true, and in that conditional, if the filesystem has reflink enabled, mount fails: # mkfs.xfs -f /dev/pmem0p1 meta-data=/dev/pmem0p1 isize=512 agcount=4, agsize=4194304 blks = sectsz=4096 attr=2, projid32bit=1 = crc=1 finobt=1, sparse=1, rmapbt=0 = reflink=1 bigtime=0 inobtcount=0 data = bsize=4096 blocks=16777216, imaxpct=25 = sunit=0 swidth=0 blks naming =version 2 bsize=4096 ascii-ci=0, ftype=1 log =internal log bsize=4096 blocks=8192, version=2 = sectsz=4096 sunit=1 blks, lazy-count=1 realtime =none extsz=4096 blocks=0, rtextents=0 # mount -o dax=inode /dev/pmem0p1 /mnt/test mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/pmem0p1, missing codepage or helper program, or other error In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try dmesg | tail or so. # dmesg | tail -n 2 [ 192.691733] XFS (pmem0p1): DAX enabled. Warning: EXPERIMENTAL, use at your own risk [ 192.700300] XFS (pmem0p1): DAX and reflink cannot be used together!So, the "DAX enabled" is a misnomer in this case. However the incompatibility of DAX and reflink is reflected in the next message, and indeed the mount fails. Is it now a matter of fixing the message output so as not to indicate "DAX enabled..."?
The mount should not fail, and it does not fail prior to your change. In the past, we did not allow any mixing of a reflink-capable filesystem with dax in any way. Now, with per-inode dax, dax-enabled inodes and reflink-enabled inodes can exist on the same filesystem, you just cannot have an inode which is both dax-enabled and reflinked at the same time. -Eric