On Thu 23-05-19 10:27:22, Goldwyn Rodrigues wrote:
On 16:04 23/05, Jan Kara wrote:
> On Mon 29-04-19 12:26:47, Goldwyn Rodrigues wrote:
> > From: Goldwyn Rodrigues <rgoldwyn(a)suse.com>
> >
> > Inorder to make sure mmap'd files don't change after snapshot,
> > writeprotect the mmap pages on snapshot. This is done by performing
> > a data writeback on the pages (which simply mark the pages are
> > wrprotected). This way if the user process tries to access the memory
> > we will get another fault and we can perform a CoW.
> >
> > In order to accomplish this, we tag all CoW pages as
> > PAGECACHE_TAG_TOWRITE, and add the mmapd inode in delalloc_inodes.
> > During snapshot, it starts writeback of all delalloc'd inodes and
> > here we perform a data writeback. We don't want to keep the inodes
> > in delalloc_inodes until it umount (WARN_ON), so we remove it
> > during inode evictions.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Goldwyn Rodrigues <rgoldwyn(a)suse.com>
>
> OK, so here you use PAGECACHE_TAG_TOWRITE. But why is not
> PAGECACHE_TAG_DIRTY enough for you? Also why isn't the same needed also for
> normal non-DAX inodes? There you also need to trigger CoW on mmap write so
> I just don't see the difference...
Because dax_writeback_mapping_range() writebacks pages marked
PAGECACHE_TAG_TOWRITE and not PAGECACHE_TAG_DIRTY. Should it
writeback pages marked as PAGECACHE_TAG_DIRTY as well?
It does writeback PAGECACHE_TAG_DIRTY pages - tag_pages_for_writeback()
moves PAGECACHE_TAG_DIRTY to PAGECACHE_TAG_TOWRITE...
Honza
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Jan Kara <jack(a)suse.com>
SUSE Labs, CR