On Sat 23-12-17 16:57:20, Dan Williams wrote:
> Catch cases where truncate encounters pages that are still under active
> dma. This warning is a canary for potential data corruption as truncated
> blocks could be allocated to a new file while the device is still
> perform i/o.
> 
> Here is an example of a collision that this implementation catches:
> 
>  WARNING: CPU: 2 PID: 1286 at fs/dax.c:343 dax_disassociate_entry+0x55/0x80
>  [..]
>  Call Trace:
>   __dax_invalidate_mapping_entry+0x6c/0xf0
>   dax_delete_mapping_entry+0xf/0x20
>   truncate_exceptional_pvec_entries.part.12+0x1af/0x200
>   truncate_inode_pages_range+0x268/0x970
>   ? tlb_gather_mmu+0x10/0x20
>   ? up_write+0x1c/0x40
>   ? unmap_mapping_range+0x73/0x140
>   xfs_free_file_space+0x1b6/0x5b0 [xfs]
>   ? xfs_file_fallocate+0x7f/0x320 [xfs]
>   ? down_write_nested+0x40/0x70
>   ? xfs_ilock+0x21d/0x2f0 [xfs]
>   xfs_file_fallocate+0x162/0x320 [xfs]
>   ? rcu_read_lock_sched_held+0x3f/0x70
>   ? rcu_sync_lockdep_assert+0x2a/0x50
>   ? __sb_start_write+0xd0/0x1b0
>   ? vfs_fallocate+0x20c/0x270
>   vfs_fallocate+0x154/0x270
>   SyS_fallocate+0x43/0x80
>   entry_SYSCALL_64_fastpath+0x1f/0x96
> 
> Cc: Jan Kara <j...@suse.cz>
> Cc: Jeff Moyer <jmo...@redhat.com>
> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <h...@lst.de>
> Cc: Matthew Wilcox <mawil...@microsoft.com>
> Cc: Ross Zwisler <ross.zwis...@linux.intel.com>
> Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.willi...@intel.com>

Looks good to me. You can add:

Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <j...@suse.cz>

                                                                Honza
-- 
Jan Kara <j...@suse.com>
SUSE Labs, CR
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