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| author | Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com> | 2016-02-26 15:19:43 -0800 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2016-02-27 10:28:52 -0800 |
| commit | 03cdadb04077b9311bbc67d98cc5401aff76482d (patch) | |
| tree | 75f29115e158d12d246751f4f241504a596395bd /block | |
| parent | a4a8481ff68a8a324a878e281bc37f18665224f7 (diff) | |
| download | lwn-03cdadb04077b9311bbc67d98cc5401aff76482d.tar.gz lwn-03cdadb04077b9311bbc67d98cc5401aff76482d.zip | |
block: disable block device DAX by default
The recent *sync enabling discovered that we are inserting into the
block_device pagecache counter to the expectations of the dirty data
tracking for dax mappings. This can lead to data corruption.
We want to support DAX for block devices eventually, but it requires
wider changes to properly manage the pagecache.
dump_stack+0x85/0xc2
dax_writeback_mapping_range+0x60/0xe0
blkdev_writepages+0x3f/0x50
do_writepages+0x21/0x30
__filemap_fdatawrite_range+0xc6/0x100
filemap_write_and_wait+0x4a/0xa0
set_blocksize+0x70/0xd0
sb_set_blocksize+0x1d/0x50
ext4_fill_super+0x75b/0x3360
mount_bdev+0x180/0x1b0
ext4_mount+0x15/0x20
mount_fs+0x38/0x170
Mark the support broken so its disabled by default, but otherwise still
available for testing.
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Ross Zwisler <ross.zwisler@linux.intel.com>
Reported-by: Ross Zwisler <ross.zwisler@linux.intel.com>
Suggested-by: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <matthew.r.wilcox@intel.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@ftp.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'block')
| -rw-r--r-- | block/Kconfig | 13 |
1 files changed, 13 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/block/Kconfig b/block/Kconfig index 161491d0a879..0363cd731320 100644 --- a/block/Kconfig +++ b/block/Kconfig @@ -88,6 +88,19 @@ config BLK_DEV_INTEGRITY T10/SCSI Data Integrity Field or the T13/ATA External Path Protection. If in doubt, say N. +config BLK_DEV_DAX + bool "Block device DAX support" + depends on FS_DAX + depends on BROKEN + help + When DAX support is available (CONFIG_FS_DAX) raw block + devices can also support direct userspace access to the + storage capacity via MMAP(2) similar to a file on a + DAX-enabled filesystem. However, the DAX I/O-path disables + some standard I/O-statistics, and the MMAP(2) path has some + operational differences due to bypassing the page + cache. If in doubt, say N. + config BLK_DEV_THROTTLING bool "Block layer bio throttling support" depends on BLK_CGROUP=y |