On Thu, 2018-06-28 at 13:04 -0600, Ross Zwisler wrote: > On Thu, Jun 28, 2018 at 05:42:34PM +0000, Kani, Toshi wrote: > > On Tue, 2018-06-26 at 16:04 -0600, Ross Zwisler wrote: > > > On Tue, Jun 26, 2018 at 02:51:52PM -0700, Dan Williams wrote: > > > > On Tue, Jun 26, 2018 at 2:31 PM, Kani, Toshi <[email protected]> wrote: : > > Your patches look good. But I am still not clear about the Fixes & > > stable handling. Talking about user visible behavior, I do not think we > > had any issue until dax support was dropped from raw mode. Until then, > > the pmem driver supported dax for all modes, and the check for > > direct_access worked. > > I agree that the fsdax + raw mode failure mode I mentioned in my cover letter > only started when we restricted filesystem DAX to having struct page, but I > think that the other failure mode, fsdax + some random block driver (I used > brd) was present in DM from the beginning.
Ah, I see. > In any case, I think both are fixed with the patches, and I think it's fine > that all 3 get thrown at stable. Thanks, Mike, for the help. Yup, agreed. Thanks! -Toshi _______________________________________________ Linux-nvdimm mailing list [email protected] https://lists.01.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-nvdimm
