[dm-devel] [PATCH 2/2] dm log writes: add support for DAX

[Mike Snitzer]

On Fri, Oct 20 2017 at  1:24am -0400,
Ross Zwisler <ross.zwisler at linux.intel.com> wrote:

> Now that we have the ability log filesystem writes using a flat buffer, add
> support for DAX.  Unfortunately we can't easily track data that has been
> written via mmap() now that the dax_flush() abstraction was removed by this
> commit:
> 
> commit c3ca015fab6d ("dax: remove the pmem_dax_ops->flush abstraction")
> 
> Otherwise we could just treat each flush as a big write, and store the data
> that is being synced to media.  It may be worthwhile to add the dax_flush()
> entry point back, just as a notifier so we can do this logging.
> 
> The motivation for this support is the need for an xfstest that can test
> the new MAP_SYNC DAX flag.  By logging the filesystem activity with
> dm-log-writes we can show that the MAP_SYNC page faults are writing out
> their metadata as they happen, instead of requiring an explicit
> msync/fsync.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Ross Zwisler <ross.zwisler at linux.intel.com>

I've picked this up, please see:
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/device-mapper/linux-dm.git/commit/?h=for-4.15/dm&id=ae613bbb0144e84cb3c0ebfa9f4fd4d1507c2f0e

I tweaked the header and tweaked a couple whitespace nits.  Also
switched version bump from 1.0.1 to 1.1.0.

Thanks,
Mike