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The core-mm has a default __weak implementation of phys_to_target_node()
to mirror the weak definition of memory_add_physaddr_to_nid(). That
symbol is exported for modules. However, while the export in
mm/memory_hotplug.c exported the symbol in the configuration cases of:
CONFIG_NUMA_KEEP_MEMINFO=y
CONFIG_MEMORY_HOTPLUG=y
...and:
CONFIG_NUMA_KEEP_MEMINFO=n
CONFIG_MEMORY_HOTPLUG=y
...it failed to export the symbol in the case of:
CONFIG_NUMA_KEEP_MEMINFO=y
CONFIG_MEMORY_HOTPLUG=n
Not only is that broken, but Christoph points out that the kernel should
not be exporting any __weak symbol, which means that
memory_add_physaddr_to_nid() example that phys_to_target_node() copied
is broken too.
Rework the definition of phys_to_target_node() and
memory_add_physaddr_to_nid() to not require weak symbols. Move to the
common arch override design-pattern of an asm header defining a symbol
to replace the default implementation.
The only common header that all memory_add_physaddr_to_nid() producing
architectures implement is asm/sparsemem.h. In fact, powerpc already
defines its memory_add_physaddr_to_nid() helper in sparsemem.h.
Double-down on that observation and define phys_to_target_node() where
necessary in asm/sparsemem.h. An alternate consideration that was
discarded was to put this override in asm/numa.h, but that entangles
with the definition of MAX_NUMNODES relative to the inclusion of
linux/nodemask.h, and requires powerpc to grow a new header.
The dependency on NUMA_KEEP_MEMINFO for DEV_DAX_HMEM_DEVICES is invalid
now that the symbol is properly exported / stubbed in all combinations
of CONFIG_NUMA_KEEP_MEMINFO and CONFIG_MEMORY_HOTPLUG.
[dan.j.williams@intel.com: v4]
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/160461461867.1505359.5301571728749534585.stgit@dwillia2-desk3.amr.corp.intel.com
[dan.j.williams@intel.com: powerpc: fix create_section_mapping compile warning]
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/160558386174.2948926.2740149041249041764.stgit@dwillia2-desk3.amr.corp.intel.com
Fixes: a035b6bf863e ("mm/memory_hotplug: introduce default phys_to_target_node() implementation")
Reported-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Reported-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Reported-by: kernel test robot <lkp@intel.com>
Reported-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Tested-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Tested-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: Joao Martins <joao.m.martins@oracle.com>
Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Cc: Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@intel.com>
Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Vishal Verma <vishal.l.verma@intel.com>
Cc: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/160447639846.1133764.7044090803980177548.stgit@dwillia2-desk3.amr.corp.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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The hmem enabling in commit cf8741ac57ed ("ACPI: NUMA: HMAT: Register
"soft reserved" memory as an "hmem" device") only registered ranges to the
hmem driver for each soft-reservation that also appeared in the HMAT.
While this is meant to encourage platform firmware to "do the right thing"
and publish an HMAT, the corollary is that platforms that fail to publish
an accurate HMAT will strand memory from Linux usage. Additionally, the
"efi_fake_mem" kernel command line option enabling will strand memory by
default without an HMAT.
Arrange for "soft reserved" memory that goes unclaimed by HMAT entries to
be published as raw resource ranges for the hmem driver to consume.
Include a module parameter to disable either this fallback behavior, or
the hmat enabling from creating hmem devices. The module parameter
requires the hmem device enabling to have unique name in the module
namespace: "device_hmem".
The driver depends on the architecture providing phys_to_target_node()
which is only x86 via numa_meminfo() and arm64 via a generic memblock
implementation.
[joao.m.martins@oracle.com: require NUMA_KEEP_MEMINFO for phys_to_target_node()]
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/aaae71a7-4846-f5cc-5acf-cf05fdb1f2dc@oracle.com
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Joao Martins <joao.m.martins@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Reviewed-by: Joao Martins <joao.m.martins@oracle.com>
Cc: Jonathan Cameron <Jonathan.Cameron@huawei.com>
Cc: Brice Goglin <Brice.Goglin@inria.fr>
Cc: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com>
Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Cc: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Cc: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Ben Skeggs <bskeggs@redhat.com>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Daniel Vetter <daniel@ffwll.ch>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Dave Jiang <dave.jiang@intel.com>
Cc: David Airlie <airlied@linux.ie>
Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Ira Weiny <ira.weiny@intel.com>
Cc: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@mellanox.com>
Cc: Jia He <justin.he@arm.com>
Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Cc: Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@ozlabs.org>
Cc: Pavel Tatashin <pasha.tatashin@soleen.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Tom Lendacky <thomas.lendacky@amd.com>
Cc: Vishal Verma <vishal.l.verma@intel.com>
Cc: Wei Yang <richard.weiyang@linux.alibaba.com>
Cc: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org>
Cc: Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@google.com>
Cc: Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com>
Cc: Hulk Robot <hulkci@huawei.com>
Cc: Jason Yan <yanaijie@huawei.com>
Cc: "Jérôme Glisse" <jglisse@redhat.com>
Cc: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
Cc: kernel test robot <lkp@intel.com>
Cc: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Cc: Stefano Stabellini <sstabellini@kernel.org>
Cc: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/159643098298.4062302.17587338161136144730.stgit@dwillia2-desk3.amr.corp.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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In preparation for exposing "Soft Reserved" memory ranges without an HMAT,
move the hmem device registration to its own compilation unit and make the
implementation generic.
The generic implementation drops usage acpi_map_pxm_to_online_node() that
was translating ACPI proximity domain values and instead relies on
numa_map_to_online_node() to determine the numa node for the device.
[joao.m.martins@oracle.com: CONFIG_DEV_DAX_HMEM_DEVICES should depend on CONFIG_DAX=y]
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/8f34727f-ec2d-9395-cb18-969ec8a5d0d4@oracle.com
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Joao Martins <joao.m.martins@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Ben Skeggs <bskeggs@redhat.com>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Brice Goglin <Brice.Goglin@inria.fr>
Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Cc: Daniel Vetter <daniel@ffwll.ch>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Dave Jiang <dave.jiang@intel.com>
Cc: David Airlie <airlied@linux.ie>
Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Ira Weiny <ira.weiny@intel.com>
Cc: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@mellanox.com>
Cc: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com>
Cc: Jia He <justin.he@arm.com>
Cc: Joao Martins <joao.m.martins@oracle.com>
Cc: Jonathan Cameron <Jonathan.Cameron@huawei.com>
Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Cc: Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@ozlabs.org>
Cc: Pavel Tatashin <pasha.tatashin@soleen.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Tom Lendacky <thomas.lendacky@amd.com>
Cc: Vishal Verma <vishal.l.verma@intel.com>
Cc: Wei Yang <richard.weiyang@linux.alibaba.com>
Cc: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
Cc: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org>
Cc: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org>
Cc: Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@google.com>
Cc: Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com>
Cc: Hulk Robot <hulkci@huawei.com>
Cc: Jason Yan <yanaijie@huawei.com>
Cc: "Jérôme Glisse" <jglisse@redhat.com>
Cc: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
Cc: kernel test robot <lkp@intel.com>
Cc: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Cc: Stefano Stabellini <sstabellini@kernel.org>
Cc: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/159643096584.4062302.5035370788475153738.stgit@dwillia2-desk3.amr.corp.intel.com
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/158318761484.2216124.2049322072599482736.stgit@dwillia2-desk3.amr.corp.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Platform firmware like EFI/ACPI may publish "hmem" platform devices.
Such a device is a performance differentiated memory range likely
reserved for an application specific use case. The driver gives access
to 100% of the capacity via a device-dax mmap instance by default.
However, if over-subscription and other kernel memory management is
desired the resulting dax device can be assigned to the core-mm via the
kmem driver.
This consumes "hmem" devices the producer of "hmem" devices is saved for
a follow-on patch so that it can reference the new CONFIG_DEV_DAX_HMEM
symbol to gate performing the enumeration work.
Reported-by: kbuild test robot <lkp@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
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Add SPDX license identifiers to all Make/Kconfig files which:
- Have no license information of any form
These files fall under the project license, GPL v2 only. The resulting SPDX
license identifier is:
GPL-2.0-only
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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This move the dependency to DEV_DAX_PMEM_COMPAT such that only
if DEV_DAX_PMEM is built as module we can allow the compat support.
This allows to test the new code easily in a emulation setup where we
often build things without module support.
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Fixes: 730926c3b099 ("device-dax: Add /sys/class/dax backwards compatibility")
Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
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This is intended for use with NVDIMMs that are physically persistent
(physically like flash) so that they can be used as a cost-effective
RAM replacement. Intel Optane DC persistent memory is one
implementation of this kind of NVDIMM.
Currently, a persistent memory region is "owned" by a device driver,
either the "Direct DAX" or "Filesystem DAX" drivers. These drivers
allow applications to explicitly use persistent memory, generally
by being modified to use special, new libraries. (DIMM-based
persistent memory hardware/software is described in great detail
here: Documentation/nvdimm/nvdimm.txt).
However, this limits persistent memory use to applications which
*have* been modified. To make it more broadly usable, this driver
"hotplugs" memory into the kernel, to be managed and used just like
normal RAM would be.
To make this work, management software must remove the device from
being controlled by the "Device DAX" infrastructure:
echo dax0.0 > /sys/bus/dax/drivers/device_dax/unbind
and then tell the new driver that it can bind to the device:
echo dax0.0 > /sys/bus/dax/drivers/kmem/new_id
After this, there will be a number of new memory sections visible
in sysfs that can be onlined, or that may get onlined by existing
udev-initiated memory hotplug rules.
This rebinding procedure is currently a one-way trip. Once memory
is bound to "kmem", it's there permanently and can not be
unbound and assigned back to device_dax.
The kmem driver will never bind to a dax device unless the device
is *explicitly* bound to the driver. There are two reasons for
this: One, since it is a one-way trip, it can not be undone if
bound incorrectly. Two, the kmem driver destroys data on the
device. Think of if you had good data on a pmem device. It
would be catastrophic if you compile-in "kmem", but leave out
the "device_dax" driver. kmem would take over the device and
write volatile data all over your good data.
This inherits any existing NUMA information for the newly-added
memory from the persistent memory device that came from the
firmware. On Intel platforms, the firmware has guarantees that
require each socket's persistent memory to be in a separate
memory-only NUMA node. That means that this patch is not expected
to create NUMA nodes, but will simply hotplug memory into existing
nodes.
Because NUMA nodes are created, the existing NUMA APIs and tools
are sufficient to create policies for applications or memory areas
to have affinity for or an aversion to using this memory.
There is currently some metadata at the beginning of pmem regions.
The section-size memory hotplug restrictions, plus this small
reserved area can cause the "loss" of a section or two of capacity.
This should be fixable in follow-on patches. But, as a first step,
losing 256MB of memory (worst case) out of hundreds of gigabytes
is a good tradeoff vs. the required code to fix this up precisely.
This calculation is also the reason we export
memory_block_size_bytes().
Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Keith Busch <keith.busch@intel.com>
Cc: Dave Jiang <dave.jiang@intel.com>
Cc: Ross Zwisler <zwisler@kernel.org>
Cc: Vishal Verma <vishal.l.verma@intel.com>
Cc: Tom Lendacky <thomas.lendacky@amd.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: linux-nvdimm@lists.01.org
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org
Cc: Huang Ying <ying.huang@intel.com>
Cc: Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Cc: Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@google.com>
Cc: Yaowei Bai <baiyaowei@cmss.chinamobile.com>
Cc: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
Cc: Jerome Glisse <jglisse@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Vishal Verma <vishal.l.verma@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
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On the expectation that some environments may not upgrade libdaxctl
(userspace component that depends on the /sys/class/dax hierarchy),
provide a default / legacy dax_pmem_compat driver. The dax_pmem_compat
driver implements the original /sys/class/dax sysfs layout rather than
/sys/bus/dax. When userspace is upgraded it can blacklist this module
and switch to the dax_pmem driver going forward.
CONFIG_DEV_DAX_PMEM_COMPAT and supporting code will be deleted according
to the dax_pmem entry in Documentation/ABI/obsolete/.
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
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In support of allowing device-mapper to compile out idle/dead code when
there are no dax providers in the system, introduce the DAX_DRIVER
symbol. This is selected by all leaf drivers that device-mapper might be
layered on top. This allows device-mapper to conditionally 'select DAX'
only when a provider is present.
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Reported-by: Bart Van Assche <Bart.VanAssche@wdc.com>
Reviewed-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
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There is no point to ask how many device-dax instances the kernel should
support. Since we are already using a dynamic major number, just allow
the max number of minors by default and be done. This also fixes the
fact that the proposed max for the NR_DEV_DAX range was larger than what
could be supported by alloc_chrdev_region().
Fixes: ba09c01d2fa8 ("dax: convert to the cdev api")
Reported-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Tested-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
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ERROR: "devm_create_dev_dax" [drivers/dax/dax_pmem.ko] undefined!
ERROR: "alloc_dax_region" [drivers/dax/dax_pmem.ko] undefined!
ERROR: "dax_region_put" [drivers/dax/dax_pmem.ko] undefined!
Signed-off-by: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
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We want dax capable drivers to be able to publish a set of dax
operations [1]. However, we do not want to further abuse block_devices
to advertise these operations. Instead we will attach these operations
to a dax device and add a lookup mechanism to go from block device path
to a dax device. A dax capable driver like pmem or brd is responsible
for registering a dax device, alongside a block device, and then a dax
capable filesystem is responsible for retrieving the dax device by path
name if it wants to call dax_operations.
For now, we refactor the dax pseudo-fs to be a generic facility, rather
than an implementation detail, of the device-dax use case. Where a "dax
device" is just an inode + dax infrastructure, and "Device DAX" is a
mapping service layered on top of that base 'struct dax_device'.
"Filesystem DAX" is then a mapping service that layers a filesystem on
top of that same base device. Filesystem DAX is associated with a
block_device for now, but perhaps directly to a dax device in the
future, or for new pmem-only filesystems.
[1]: https://lkml.org/lkml/2017/1/19/880
Suggested-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
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The following warning triggers with a new unit test that stresses the
device-dax interface.
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[ ERR: suspicious RCU usage. ]
4.11.0-rc4+ #1049 Tainted: G O
-------------------------------
./include/linux/rcupdate.h:521 Illegal context switch in RCU read-side critical section!
other info that might help us debug this:
rcu_scheduler_active = 2, debug_locks = 0
2 locks held by fio/9070:
#0: (&mm->mmap_sem){++++++}, at: [<ffffffff8d0739d7>] __do_page_fault+0x167/0x4f0
#1: (rcu_read_lock){......}, at: [<ffffffffc03fbd02>] dax_dev_huge_fault+0x32/0x620 [dax]
Call Trace:
dump_stack+0x86/0xc3
lockdep_rcu_suspicious+0xd7/0x110
___might_sleep+0xac/0x250
__might_sleep+0x4a/0x80
__alloc_pages_nodemask+0x23a/0x360
alloc_pages_current+0xa1/0x1f0
pte_alloc_one+0x17/0x80
__pte_alloc+0x1e/0x120
__get_locked_pte+0x1bf/0x1d0
insert_pfn.isra.70+0x3a/0x100
? lookup_memtype+0xa6/0xd0
vm_insert_mixed+0x64/0x90
dax_dev_huge_fault+0x520/0x620 [dax]
? dax_dev_huge_fault+0x32/0x620 [dax]
dax_dev_fault+0x10/0x20 [dax]
__do_fault+0x1e/0x140
__handle_mm_fault+0x9af/0x10d0
handle_mm_fault+0x16d/0x370
? handle_mm_fault+0x47/0x370
__do_page_fault+0x28c/0x4f0
trace_do_page_fault+0x58/0x2a0
do_async_page_fault+0x1a/0xa0
async_page_fault+0x28/0x30
Inserting a page table entry may trigger an allocation while we are
holding a read lock to keep the device instance alive for the duration
of the fault. Use srcu for this keep-alive protection.
Fixes: dee410792419 ("/dev/dax, core: file operations and dax-mmap")
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
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A bugfix just tried to address a randconfig build problem and introduced
a variant of the same problem: with CONFIG_LIBNVDIMM=y and
CONFIG_NVDIMM_DAX=m, the nvdimm module now fails to link:
drivers/nvdimm/built-in.o: In function `to_nd_device_type':
bus.c:(.text+0x1b5d): undefined reference to `is_nd_dax'
drivers/nvdimm/built-in.o: In function `nd_region_notify_driver_action.constprop.2':
region_devs.c:(.text+0x6b6c): undefined reference to `is_nd_dax'
region_devs.c:(.text+0x6b8c): undefined reference to `to_nd_dax'
drivers/nvdimm/built-in.o: In function `nd_region_probe':
region.c:(.text+0x70f3): undefined reference to `nd_dax_create'
drivers/nvdimm/built-in.o: In function `mode_show':
namespace_devs.c:(.text+0xa196): undefined reference to `is_nd_dax'
drivers/nvdimm/built-in.o: In function `nvdimm_namespace_common_probe':
(.text+0xa55f): undefined reference to `is_nd_dax'
drivers/nvdimm/built-in.o: In function `nvdimm_namespace_common_probe':
(.text+0xa56e): undefined reference to `to_nd_dax'
This reverts the earlier fix, making NVDIMM_DAX a 'bool' option again
as it should be (it gets linked into the libnvdimm module). To fix
the original problem, I'm adding a dependency on LIBNVDIMM to
DEV_DAX_PMEM, which ensures we can't have that one built-in if the
rest is a module.
Fixes: 4e65e9381c7a ("/dev/dax: fix Kconfig dependency build breakage")
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Reviewed-by: Ross Zwisler <ross.zwisler@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
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A goal of the device-DAX interface is to be able to support many
exclusive allocations (partitions) of performance / feature
differentiated memory. This count may exceed the default minors limit
of 256.
As a result of switching to an embedded cdev the inode-to-dax_dev
conversion is simplified, as well as reference counting which can switch
to the cdev kobject lifetime.
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
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The "Device DAX" core enables dax mappings of performance / feature
differentiated memory. An open mapping or file handle keeps the backing
struct device live, but new mappings are only possible while the device
is enabled. Faults are handled under rcu_read_lock to synchronize
with the enabled state of the device.
Similar to the filesystem-dax case the backing memory may optionally
have struct page entries. However, unlike fs-dax there is no support
for private mappings, or mappings that are not backed by media (see
use of zero-page in fs-dax).
Mappings are always guaranteed to match the alignment of the dax_region.
If the dax_region is configured to have a 2MB alignment, all mappings
are guaranteed to be backed by a pmd entry. Contrast this determinism
with the fs-dax case where pmd mappings are opportunistic. If userspace
attempts to force a misaligned mapping, the driver will fail the mmap
attempt. See dax_dev_check_vma() for other scenarios that are rejected,
like MAP_PRIVATE mappings.
Cc: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.de>
Cc: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Ross Zwisler <ross.zwisler@linux.intel.com>
Acked-by: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Johannes Thumshirn <jthumshirn@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
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Device DAX is the device-centric analogue of Filesystem DAX
(CONFIG_FS_DAX). It allows memory ranges to be allocated and mapped
without need of an intervening file system. Device DAX is strict,
precise and predictable. Specifically this interface:
1/ Guarantees fault granularity with respect to a given page size (pte,
pmd, or pud) set at configuration time.
2/ Enforces deterministic behavior by being strict about what fault
scenarios are supported.
For example, by forcing MADV_DONTFORK semantics and omitting MAP_PRIVATE
support device-dax guarantees that a mapping always behaves/performs the
same once established. It is the "what you see is what you get" access
mechanism to differentiated memory vs filesystem DAX which has
filesystem specific implementation semantics.
Persistent memory is the first target, but the mechanism is also
targeted for exclusive allocations of performance differentiated memory
ranges.
This commit is limited to the base device driver infrastructure to
associate a dax device with pmem range.
Cc: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Ross Zwisler <ross.zwisler@linux.intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Johannes Thumshirn <jthumshirn@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
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