kernel/drivers/dax/super.c, branch linux-5.1.y

dax: Arrange for dax_supported check to span multiple devices

2019-05-31T13:43:09Z

commit 7bf7eac8d648057519adb6fce1e31458c902212c upstream. Pankaj reports that starting with commit ad428cdb525a "dax: Check the end of the block-device capacity with dax_direct_access()" device-mapper no longer allows dax operation. This results from the stricter checks in __bdev_dax_supported() that validate that the start and end of a block-device map to the same 'pagemap' instance. Teach the dax-core and device-mapper to validate the 'pagemap' on a per-target basis. This is accomplished by refactoring the bdev_dax_supported() internals into generic_fsdax_supported() which takes a sector range to validate. Consequently generic_fsdax_supported() is suitable to be used in a device-mapper ->iterate_devices() callback. A new ->dax_supported() operation is added to allow composite devices to split and route upper-level bdev_dax_supported() requests. Fixes: ad428cdb525a ("dax: Check the end of the block-device...") Cc: Cc: Ira Weiny Cc: Dave Jiang Cc: Keith Busch Cc: Matthew Wilcox Cc: Vishal Verma Cc: Heiko Carstens Cc: Martin Schwidefsky Reviewed-by: Jan Kara Reported-by: Pankaj Gupta Reviewed-by: Pankaj Gupta Tested-by: Pankaj Gupta Tested-by: Vaibhav Jain Reviewed-by: Mike Snitzer Signed-off-by: Dan Williams Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

Merge tag 'devdax-for-5.1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/nvdimm/nvdimm

2019-03-16T20:05:32Z

Pull device-dax updates from Dan Williams: "New device-dax infrastructure to allow persistent memory and other "reserved" / performance differentiated memories, to be assigned to the core-mm as "System RAM". Some users want to use persistent memory as additional volatile memory. They are willing to cope with potential performance differences, for example between DRAM and 3D Xpoint, and want to use typical Linux memory management apis rather than a userspace memory allocator layered over an mmap() of a dax file. The administration model is to decide how much Persistent Memory (pmem) to use as System RAM, create a device-dax-mode namespace of that size, and then assign it to the core-mm. The rationale for device-dax is that it is a generic memory-mapping driver that can be layered over any "special purpose" memory, not just pmem. On subsequent boots udev rules can be used to restore the memory assignment. One implication of using pmem as RAM is that mlock() no longer keeps data off persistent media. For this reason it is recommended to enable NVDIMM Security (previously merged for 5.0) to encrypt pmem contents at rest. We considered making this recommendation an actively enforced requirement, but in the end decided to leave it as a distribution / administrator policy to allow for emulation and test environments that lack security capable NVDIMMs. Summary: - Replace the /sys/class/dax device model with /sys/bus/dax, and include a compat driver so distributions can opt-in to the new ABI. - Allow for an alternative driver for the device-dax address-range - Introduce the 'kmem' driver to hotplug / assign a device-dax address-range to the core-mm. - Arrange for the device-dax target-node to be onlined so that the newly added memory range can be uniquely referenced by numa apis" NOTE! I'm not entirely happy with the whole "PMEM as RAM" model because we currently have special - and very annoying rules in the kernel about accessing PMEM only with the "MC safe" accessors, because machine checks inside the regular repeat string copy functions can be fatal in some (not described) circumstances. And apparently the PMEM modules can cause that a lot more than regular RAM. The argument is that this happens because PMEM doesn't necessarily get scrubbed at boot like RAM does, but that is planned to be added for the user space tooling. Quoting Dan from another email: "The exposure can be reduced in the volatile-RAM case by scanning for and clearing errors before it is onlined as RAM. The userspace tooling for that can be in place before v5.1-final. There's also runtime notifications of errors via acpi_nfit_uc_error_notify() from background scrubbers on the DIMM devices. With that mechanism the kernel could proactively clear newly discovered poison in the volatile case, but that would be additional development more suitable for v5.2. I understand the concern, and the need to highlight this issue by tapping the brakes on feature development, but I don't see PMEM as RAM making the situation worse when the exposure is also there via DAX in the PMEM case. Volatile-RAM is arguably a safer use case since it's possible to repair pages where the persistent case needs active application coordination" * tag 'devdax-for-5.1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/nvdimm/nvdimm: device-dax: "Hotplug" persistent memory for use like normal RAM mm/resource: Let walk_system_ram_range() search child resources mm/memory-hotplug: Allow memory resources to be children mm/resource: Move HMM pr_debug() deeper into resource code mm/resource: Return real error codes from walk failures device-dax: Add a 'modalias' attribute to DAX 'bus' devices device-dax: Add a 'target_node' attribute device-dax: Auto-bind device after successful new_id acpi/nfit, device-dax: Identify differentiated memory with a unique numa-node device-dax: Add /sys/class/dax backwards compatibility device-dax: Add support for a dax override driver device-dax: Move resource pinning+mapping into the common driver device-dax: Introduce bus + driver model device-dax: Start defining a dax bus model device-dax: Remove multi-resource infrastructure device-dax: Kill dax_region base device-dax: Kill dax_region ida

dax: Check the end of the block-device capacity with dax_direct_access()

2019-02-21T05:12:50Z

The checks in __bdev_dax_supported() helped mitigate a potential data corruption bug in the pmem driver's handling of section alignment padding. Strengthen the checks, including checking the end of the range, to validate the dev_pagemap, Xarray entries, and sector-to-pfn translation established for pmem namespaces. Acked-by: Jan Kara Cc: "Darrick J. Wong" Signed-off-by: Dan Williams

device-dax: Introduce bus + driver model

2019-01-07T05:24:46Z

In support of multiple device-dax instances per device-dax-region and allowing the 'kmem' driver to attach to dax-instances instead of the current device-node access, convert the dax sub-system from a class to a bus. Recall that the kmem driver takes reserved / special purpose memories and assigns them to be managed by the core-mm. Aside from the fact the device-dax instances are registered and probed on a bus, two other lifetime-management changes are made: 1/ Delay attaching a cdev until driver probe time 2/ A new run_dax() helper is introduced to allow restoring dax-operation after a kill_dax() event. So, at driver ->probe() time we run_dax() and at ->remove() time we kill_dax() and invalidate all mappings. Signed-off-by: Dan Williams

device-dax: Start defining a dax bus model

2019-01-07T05:24:46Z

Towards eliminating the dax_class, move the dax-device-attribute enabling to a new bus.c file in the core. The amount of code thrash of sub-sequent patches is reduced as no logic changes are made, just pure code movement. A temporary export of unregister_dex_dax() and dax_attribute_groups is needed to preserve compilation, but those symbols become static again in a follow-on patch. Signed-off-by: Dan Williams

Merge tag 'libnvdimm-for-4.19_misc' of gitolite.kernel.org:pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/nvdimm/nvdimm

2018-08-26T01:13:10Z

Pull libnvdimm updates from Dave Jiang: "Collection of misc libnvdimm patches for 4.19 submission: - Adding support to read locked nvdimm capacity. - Change test code to make DSM failure code injection an override. - Add support for calculate maximum contiguous area for namespace. - Add support for queueing a short ARS when there is on going ARS for nvdimm. - Allow NULL to be passed in to ->direct_access() for kaddr and pfn params. - Improve smart injection support for nvdimm emulation testing. - Fix test code that supports for emulating controller temperature. - Fix hang on error before devm_memremap_pages() - Fix a bug that causes user memory corruption when data returned to user for ars_status. - Maintainer updates for Ross Zwisler emails and adding Jan Kara to fsdax" * tag 'libnvdimm-for-4.19_misc' of gitolite.kernel.org:pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/nvdimm/nvdimm: libnvdimm: fix ars_status output length calculation device-dax: avoid hang on error before devm_memremap_pages() tools/testing/nvdimm: improve emulation of smart injection filesystem-dax: Do not request kaddr and pfn when not required md/dm-writecache: Don't request pointer dummy_addr when not required dax/super: Do not request a pointer kaddr when not required tools/testing/nvdimm: kaddr and pfn can be NULL to ->direct_access() s390, dcssblk: kaddr and pfn can be NULL to ->direct_access() libnvdimm, pmem: kaddr and pfn can be NULL to ->direct_access() acpi/nfit: queue issuing of ars when an uc error notification comes in libnvdimm: Export max available extent libnvdimm: Use max contiguous area for namespace size MAINTAINERS: Add Jan Kara for filesystem DAX MAINTAINERS: update Ross Zwisler's email address tools/testing/nvdimm: Fix support for emulating controller temperature tools/testing/nvdimm: Make DSM failure code injection an override acpi, nfit: Prefer _DSM over _LSR for namespace label reads libnvdimm: Introduce locked DIMM capacity support

dax/super: Do not request a pointer kaddr when not required

2018-07-30T16:39:28Z

Function __bdev_dax_supported doesn't need to get local pointer kaddr from direct_access. Using NULL instead of having to pass in a useless local pointer that caller then just throw away. Signed-off-by: Huaisheng Ye Reviewed-by: Ross Zwisler Signed-off-by: Dave Jiang

dax: check for QUEUE_FLAG_DAX in bdev_dax_supported()

2018-06-28T20:06:08Z

Add an explicit check for QUEUE_FLAG_DAX to __bdev_dax_supported(). This is needed for DM configurations where the first element in the dm-linear or dm-stripe target supports DAX, but other elements do not. Without this check __bdev_dax_supported() will pass for such devices, letting a filesystem on that device mount with the DAX option. Signed-off-by: Ross Zwisler Suggested-by: Mike Snitzer Fixes: commit 545ed20e6df6 ("dm: add infrastructure for DAX support") Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Acked-by: Dan Williams Reviewed-by: Toshi Kani Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer

Merge tag 'libnvdimm-for-4.18' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/nvdimm/nvdimm

2018-06-09T00:21:52Z

Pull libnvdimm updates from Dan Williams: "This adds a user for the new 'bytes-remaining' updates to memcpy_mcsafe() that you already received through Ingo via the x86-dax- for-linus pull. Not included here, but still targeting this cycle, is support for handling memory media errors (poison) consumed via userspace dax mappings. Summary: - DAX broke a fundamental assumption of truncate of file mapped pages. The truncate path assumed that it is safe to disconnect a pinned page from a file and let the filesystem reclaim the physical block. With DAX the page is equivalent to the filesystem block. Introduce dax_layout_busy_page() to enable filesystems to wait for pinned DAX pages to be released. Without this wait a filesystem could allocate blocks under active device-DMA to a new file. - DAX arranges for the block layer to be bypassed and uses dax_direct_access() + copy_to_iter() to satisfy read(2) calls. However, the memcpy_mcsafe() facility is available through the pmem block driver. In order to safely handle media errors, via the DAX block-layer bypass, introduce copy_to_iter_mcsafe(). - Fix cache management policy relative to the ACPI NFIT Platform Capabilities Structure to properly elide cache flushes when they are not necessary. The table indicates whether CPU caches are power-fail protected. Clarify that a deep flush is always performed on REQ_{FUA,PREFLUSH} requests" * tag 'libnvdimm-for-4.18' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/nvdimm/nvdimm: (21 commits) dax: Use dax_write_cache* helpers libnvdimm, pmem: Do not flush power-fail protected CPU caches libnvdimm, pmem: Unconditionally deep flush on *sync libnvdimm, pmem: Complete REQ_FLUSH => REQ_PREFLUSH acpi, nfit: Remove ecc_unit_size dax: dax_insert_mapping_entry always succeeds libnvdimm, e820: Register all pmem resources libnvdimm: Debug probe times linvdimm, pmem: Preserve read-only setting for pmem devices x86, nfit_test: Add unit test for memcpy_mcsafe() pmem: Switch to copy_to_iter_mcsafe() dax: Report bytes remaining in dax_iomap_actor() dax: Introduce a ->copy_to_iter dax operation uio, lib: Fix CONFIG_ARCH_HAS_UACCESS_MCSAFE compilation xfs, dax: introduce xfs_break_dax_layouts() xfs: prepare xfs_break_layouts() for another layout type xfs: prepare xfs_break_layouts() to be called with XFS_MMAPLOCK_EXCL mm, fs, dax: handle layout changes to pinned dax mappings mm: fix __gup_device_huge vs unmap mm: introduce MEMORY_DEVICE_FS_DAX and CONFIG_DEV_PAGEMAP_OPS ...

Merge branch 'for-4.18/mcsafe' into libnvdimm-for-next

2018-06-08T22:16:44Z