From: Jeff Layton Subject: Re: [PATCH v7 15/22] dax: set errors in mapping when writeback fails Date: Sat, 17 Jun 2017 08:39:53 -0400 Message-ID: <1497703193.4684.9.camel@redhat.com> References: <20170616193427.13955-1-jlayton@redhat.com> <20170616193427.13955-16-jlayton@redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Carlos Maiolino , Eryu Guan , David Howells , Christoph Hellwig , linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org, linux-xfs@vger.kernel.org, linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org, linux-block@vger.kernel.org To: Andrew Morton , Al Viro , Jan Kara , tytso@mit.edu, axboe@kernel.dk, mawilcox@microsoft.com, ross.zwisler@linux.intel.com, corbet@lwn.net, Chris Mason , Josef Bacik , David Sterba , "Darrick J . Wong" Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20170616193427.13955-16-jlayton@redhat.com> Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org List-Id: linux-ext4.vger.kernel.org On Fri, 2017-06-16 at 15:34 -0400, Jeff Layton wrote: > Jan Kara's description for this patch is much better than mine, so I'm > quoting it verbatim here: > > DAX currently doesn't set errors in the mapping when cache flushing > fails in dax_writeback_mapping_range(). Since this function can get > called only from fsync(2) or sync(2), this is actually as good as it can > currently get since we correctly propagate the error up from > dax_writeback_mapping_range() to filemap_fdatawrite() > > However, in the future better writeback error handling will enable us to > properly report these errors on fsync(2) even if there are multiple file > descriptors open against the file or if sync(2) gets called before > fsync(2). So convert DAX to using standard error reporting through the > mapping. > > Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton > Reviewed-by: Jan Kara > Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig > Reviewed-and-Tested-by: Ross Zwisler > --- > fs/dax.c | 4 +++- > 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) > > diff --git a/fs/dax.c b/fs/dax.c > index 9899f07acf72..c663e8cc2a76 100644 > --- a/fs/dax.c > +++ b/fs/dax.c > @@ -856,8 +856,10 @@ int dax_writeback_mapping_range(struct address_space *mapping, > > ret = dax_writeback_one(bdev, dax_dev, mapping, > indices[i], pvec.pages[i]); > - if (ret < 0) > + if (ret < 0) { > + mapping_set_error(mapping, ret); > goto out; > + } > } > } > out: I should point out here that Ross had an issue with this patch in an earlier set, that I addressed with a flag in the last set. The flag is icky though. In this set, patch #6 should make it unnecessary: mm: clear AS_EIO/AS_ENOSPC when writeback initiation fails Ross, could you test that this set still works ok for you with dax? It should apply reasonably cleanly on top of linux-next. Thanks, -- Jeff Layton -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: email@kvack.org