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authorJan Kara <jack@suse.cz>2016-05-11 11:58:51 +0200
committerVishal Verma <vishal.l.verma@intel.com>2016-05-17 00:44:09 -0600
commit069c77bc9eaee70fa9ecbd942372b1693b8cdeb0 (patch)
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parent2b10945c532c165a824f541df76a15ed0be04d78 (diff)
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dax: Remove zeroing from dax_io()
All the filesystems are now zeroing blocks themselves for DAX IO to avoid races between dax_io() and dax_fault(). Remove the zeroing code from dax_io() and add warning to catch the case when somebody unexpectedly returns new or unwritten buffer. Reviewed-by: Ross Zwisler <ross.zwisler@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Vishal Verma <vishal.l.verma@intel.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'fs/dax.c')
-rw-r--r--fs/dax.c28
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 18 deletions
diff --git a/fs/dax.c b/fs/dax.c
index ccb8bc399d78..7c0036dd1570 100644
--- a/fs/dax.c
+++ b/fs/dax.c
@@ -119,18 +119,6 @@ int dax_clear_sectors(struct block_device *bdev, sector_t _sector, long _size)
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(dax_clear_sectors);
-/* the clear_pmem() calls are ordered by a wmb_pmem() in the caller */
-static void dax_new_buf(void __pmem *addr, unsigned size, unsigned first,
- loff_t pos, loff_t end)
-{
- loff_t final = end - pos + first; /* The final byte of the buffer */
-
- if (first > 0)
- clear_pmem(addr, first);
- if (final < size)
- clear_pmem(addr + final, size - final);
-}
-
static bool buffer_written(struct buffer_head *bh)
{
return buffer_mapped(bh) && !buffer_unwritten(bh);
@@ -169,6 +157,9 @@ static ssize_t dax_io(struct inode *inode, struct iov_iter *iter,
struct blk_dax_ctl dax = {
.addr = (void __pmem *) ERR_PTR(-EIO),
};
+ unsigned blkbits = inode->i_blkbits;
+ sector_t file_blks = (i_size_read(inode) + (1 << blkbits) - 1)
+ >> blkbits;
if (rw == READ)
end = min(end, i_size_read(inode));
@@ -176,7 +167,6 @@ static ssize_t dax_io(struct inode *inode, struct iov_iter *iter,
while (pos < end) {
size_t len;
if (pos == max) {
- unsigned blkbits = inode->i_blkbits;
long page = pos >> PAGE_SHIFT;
sector_t block = page << (PAGE_SHIFT - blkbits);
unsigned first = pos - (block << blkbits);
@@ -192,6 +182,13 @@ static ssize_t dax_io(struct inode *inode, struct iov_iter *iter,
bh->b_size = 1 << blkbits;
bh_max = pos - first + bh->b_size;
bdev = bh->b_bdev;
+ /*
+ * We allow uninitialized buffers for writes
+ * beyond EOF as those cannot race with faults
+ */
+ WARN_ON_ONCE(
+ (buffer_new(bh) && block < file_blks) ||
+ (rw == WRITE && buffer_unwritten(bh)));
} else {
unsigned done = bh->b_size -
(bh_max - (pos - first));
@@ -211,11 +208,6 @@ static ssize_t dax_io(struct inode *inode, struct iov_iter *iter,
rc = map_len;
break;
}
- if (buffer_unwritten(bh) || buffer_new(bh)) {
- dax_new_buf(dax.addr, map_len, first,
- pos, end);
- need_wmb = true;
- }
dax.addr += first;
size = map_len - first;
}