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Now that cpu_cache_invalidate_memregion() is generically available, use
it to centralize CPU cache management in the nvdimm region driver.
This trades off removing redundant per-dimm CPU cache flushing with an
opportunistic flush on every region disable event to cover the case of
sensitive dirty data in the cache being written back to media after a
secure erase / overwrite event.
Reviewed-by: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net>
Reviewed-by: Dave Jiang <dave.jiang@intel.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/166993221550.1995348.16843505129579060258.stgit@dwillia2-xfh.jf.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
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Now that all NVDIMM subsystem locking is validated with custom lock
classes, there is no need for the custom usage of the lockdep_mutex.
Cc: Vishal Verma <vishal.l.verma@intel.com>
Cc: Dave Jiang <dave.jiang@intel.com>
Cc: Ira Weiny <ira.weiny@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Ira Weiny <ira.weiny@intel.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/165055521979.3745911.10751769706032029999.stgit@dwillia2-desk3.amr.corp.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
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Now that the nd_namespace_blk infrastructure is removed, delete all the
region machinery to coordinate provisioning aliased capacity between
PMEM and BLK.
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/164688418803.2879318.1302315202397235855.stgit@dwillia2-desk3.amr.corp.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
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All drivers return 0 in their remove callback and the driver core ignores
the return value of nvdimm_bus_remove() anyhow. So simplify by changing
the driver remove callback to return void and return 0 unconditionally
to the upper layer.
Signed-off-by: Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210212171043.2136580-2-u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
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The 'struct resource' in 'struct dev_pagemap' is only used for holding
resource span information. The other fields, 'name', 'flags', 'desc',
'parent', 'sibling', and 'child' are all unused wasted space.
This is in preparation for introducing a multi-range extension of
devm_memremap_pages().
The bulk of this change is unwinding all the places internal to libnvdimm
that used 'struct resource' unnecessarily, and replacing instances of
'struct dev_pagemap'.res with 'struct dev_pagemap'.range.
P2PDMA had a minor usage of the resource flags field, but only to report
failures with "%pR". That is replaced with an open coded print of the
range.
[dan.carpenter@oracle.com: mm/hmm/test: use after free in dmirror_allocate_chunk()]
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200926121402.GA7467@kadam
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Reviewed-by: Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com> [xen]
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@ozlabs.org>
Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Vishal Verma <vishal.l.verma@intel.com>
Cc: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Cc: Dave Jiang <dave.jiang@intel.com>
Cc: Ben Skeggs <bskeggs@redhat.com>
Cc: David Airlie <airlied@linux.ie>
Cc: Daniel Vetter <daniel@ffwll.ch>
Cc: Ira Weiny <ira.weiny@intel.com>
Cc: Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@google.com>
Cc: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
Cc: Stefano Stabellini <sstabellini@kernel.org>
Cc: "Jérôme Glisse" <jglisse@redhat.com>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Cc: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org>
Cc: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Brice Goglin <Brice.Goglin@inria.fr>
Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Hulk Robot <hulkci@huawei.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@mellanox.com>
Cc: Jason Yan <yanaijie@huawei.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: kernel test robot <lkp@intel.com>
Cc: Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Pavel Tatashin <pasha.tatashin@soleen.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
Cc: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Tom Lendacky <thomas.lendacky@amd.com>
Cc: Wei Yang <richard.weiyang@linux.alibaba.com>
Cc: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/159643103173.4062302.768998885691711532.stgit@dwillia2-desk3.amr.corp.intel.com
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/160106115761.30709.13539840236873663620.stgit@dwillia2-desk3.amr.corp.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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We do check for a bad block during namespace init and that use
region bad block list. We need to initialize the bad block
for volatile regions for this to work. We also observe a lockdep
warning as below because the lock is not initialized correctly
since we skip bad block init for volatile regions.
INFO: trying to register non-static key.
the code is fine but needs lockdep annotation.
turning off the locking correctness validator.
CPU: 2 PID: 1 Comm: swapper/0 Not tainted 5.3.0-rc1-15699-g3dee241c937e #149
Call Trace:
[c0000000f95cb250] [c00000000147dd84] dump_stack+0xe8/0x164 (unreliable)
[c0000000f95cb2a0] [c00000000022ccd8] register_lock_class+0x308/0xa60
[c0000000f95cb3a0] [c000000000229cc0] __lock_acquire+0x170/0x1ff0
[c0000000f95cb4c0] [c00000000022c740] lock_acquire+0x220/0x270
[c0000000f95cb580] [c000000000a93230] badblocks_check+0xc0/0x290
[c0000000f95cb5f0] [c000000000d97540] nd_pfn_validate+0x5c0/0x7f0
[c0000000f95cb6d0] [c000000000d98300] nd_dax_probe+0xd0/0x1f0
[c0000000f95cb760] [c000000000d9b66c] nd_pmem_probe+0x10c/0x160
[c0000000f95cb790] [c000000000d7f5ec] nvdimm_bus_probe+0x10c/0x240
[c0000000f95cb820] [c000000000d0f844] really_probe+0x254/0x4e0
[c0000000f95cb8b0] [c000000000d0fdfc] driver_probe_device+0x16c/0x1e0
[c0000000f95cb930] [c000000000d10238] device_driver_attach+0x68/0xa0
[c0000000f95cb970] [c000000000d1040c] __driver_attach+0x19c/0x1c0
[c0000000f95cb9f0] [c000000000d0c4c4] bus_for_each_dev+0x94/0x130
[c0000000f95cba50] [c000000000d0f014] driver_attach+0x34/0x50
[c0000000f95cba70] [c000000000d0e208] bus_add_driver+0x178/0x2f0
[c0000000f95cbb00] [c000000000d117c8] driver_register+0x108/0x170
[c0000000f95cbb70] [c000000000d7edb0] __nd_driver_register+0xe0/0x100
[c0000000f95cbbd0] [c000000001a6baa4] nd_pmem_driver_init+0x34/0x48
[c0000000f95cbbf0] [c0000000000106f4] do_one_initcall+0x1d4/0x4b0
[c0000000f95cbcd0] [c0000000019f499c] kernel_init_freeable+0x544/0x65c
[c0000000f95cbdb0] [c000000000010d6c] kernel_init+0x2c/0x180
[c0000000f95cbe20] [c00000000000b954] ret_from_kernel_thread+0x5c/0x68
Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.ibm.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20190919083355.26340-1-aneesh.kumar@linux.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
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For good reason, the standard device_lock() is marked
lockdep_set_novalidate_class() because there is simply no sane way to
describe the myriad ways the device_lock() ordered with other locks.
However, that leaves subsystems that know their own local device_lock()
ordering rules to find lock ordering mistakes manually. Instead,
introduce an optional / additional lockdep-enabled lock that a subsystem
can acquire in all the same paths that the device_lock() is acquired.
A conversion of the NFIT driver and NVDIMM subsystem to a
lockdep-validate device_lock() scheme is included. The
debug_nvdimm_lock() implementation implements the correct lock-class and
stacking order for the libnvdimm device topology hierarchy.
Yes, this is a hack, but hopefully it is a useful hack for other
subsystems device_lock() debug sessions. Quoting Greg:
"Yeah, it feels a bit hacky but it's really up to a subsystem to mess up
using it as much as anything else, so user beware :)
I don't object to it if it makes things easier for you to debug."
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Ira Weiny <ira.weiny@intel.com>
Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Cc: Dave Jiang <dave.jiang@intel.com>
Cc: Keith Busch <keith.busch@intel.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Vishal Verma <vishal.l.verma@intel.com>
Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@rjwysocki.net>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Reviewed-by: Ira Weiny <ira.weiny@intel.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/156341210661.292348.7014034644265455704.stgit@dwillia2-desk3.amr.corp.intel.com
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Namespace activation expects to be able to reference region badblocks.
The following warning sometimes triggers when asynchronous namespace
activation races in front of the completion of namespace probing. Move
all possible namespace probing after region badblocks initialization.
Otherwise, lockdep sometimes catches the uninitialized state of the
badblocks seqlock with stack trace signatures like:
INFO: trying to register non-static key.
pmem2: detected capacity change from 0 to 136365211648
the code is fine but needs lockdep annotation.
turning off the locking correctness validator.
CPU: 9 PID: 358 Comm: kworker/u80:5 Tainted: G OE 5.2.0-rc4+ #3382
Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS 0.0.0 02/06/2015
Workqueue: events_unbound async_run_entry_fn
Call Trace:
dump_stack+0x85/0xc0
pmem1.12: detected capacity change from 0 to 8589934592
register_lock_class+0x56a/0x570
? check_object+0x140/0x270
__lock_acquire+0x80/0x1710
? __mutex_lock+0x39d/0x910
lock_acquire+0x9e/0x180
? nd_pfn_validate+0x28f/0x440 [libnvdimm]
badblocks_check+0x93/0x1f0
? nd_pfn_validate+0x28f/0x440 [libnvdimm]
nd_pfn_validate+0x28f/0x440 [libnvdimm]
? lockdep_hardirqs_on+0xf0/0x180
nd_dax_probe+0x9a/0x120 [libnvdimm]
nd_pmem_probe+0x6d/0x180 [nd_pmem]
nvdimm_bus_probe+0x90/0x2c0 [libnvdimm]
Fixes: 48af2f7e52f4 ("libnvdimm, pfn: during init, clear errors...")
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: Vishal Verma <vishal.l.verma@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Vishal Verma <vishal.l.verma@intel.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/156341208365.292348.1547528796026249120.stgit@dwillia2-desk3.amr.corp.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
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Based on 1 normalized pattern(s):
this program is free software you can redistribute it and or modify
it under the terms of version 2 of the gnu general public license as
published by the free software foundation this program is
distributed in the hope that it will be useful but without any
warranty without even the implied warranty of merchantability or
fitness for a particular purpose see the gnu general public license
for more details
extracted by the scancode license scanner the SPDX license identifier
GPL-2.0-only
has been chosen to replace the boilerplate/reference in 64 file(s).
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Alexios Zavras <alexios.zavras@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Allison Randal <allison@lohutok.net>
Cc: linux-spdx@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190529141901.894819585@linutronix.de
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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The message about constraining number of online cpus to be less than or
equal to ND_MAX_LANES (256) is only useful for block-aperture
configurations and BTT. Make it debug since it is only relevant when
debugging performance.
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
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We need to hold a reference on the 'dirent' until we are sure there are
no more notifications that will be sent. As noted in the new comments we
take advantage of the fact that the references are taken and dropped
under device_lock() and that nd_device_notify() holds device_lock() over
new badblocks notifications. The notifications that happen when
badblocks are cleared only occur while the device is active.
Also take the opportunity to fix up the error messages to report the
user visible effect of a sysfs_get_dirent() failure.
Fixes: 975750a98c26 ("libnvdimm, pmem: Add sysfs notifications to badblocks")
Cc: Toshi Kani <toshi.kani@hpe.com>
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
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Sysfs "badblocks" information may be updated during run-time that:
- MCE, SCI, and sysfs "scrub" may add new bad blocks
- Writes and ioctl() may clear bad blocks
Add support to send sysfs notifications to sysfs "badblocks" file
under region and pmem directories when their badblocks information
is re-evaluated (but is not necessarily changed) during run-time.
Signed-off-by: Toshi Kani <toshi.kani@hpe.com>
Cc: Vishal Verma <vishal.l.verma@intel.com>
Cc: Linda Knippers <linda.knippers@hpe.com>
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
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Toshi noticed that the new support for a region-level badblocks missed
the case where errors are cleared due to BTT I/O.
An initial attempt to fix this ran into a "sleeping while atomic"
warning due to taking the nvdimm_bus_lock() in the BTT I/O path to
satisfy the locking requirements of __nvdimm_bus_badblocks_clear().
However, that lock is not needed since we are not acting on any data that
is subject to change under that lock. The badblocks instance has its own
internal lock to handle mutations of the error list.
So, in order to make it clear that we are just acting on region devices,
rename __nvdimm_bus_badblocks_clear() to nvdimm_clear_badblocks_regions().
Eliminate the lock and consolidate all support routines for the new
nvdimm_account_cleared_poison() in drivers/nvdimm/bus.c. Finally, to the
opportunity to cleanup to some unnecessary casts, make the calling
convention of nvdimm_clear_badblocks_regions() clearer by replacing struct
resource with the minimal struct clear_badblocks_context, and use the
DEVICE_ATTR macro.
Cc: Dave Jiang <dave.jiang@intel.com>
Cc: Vishal Verma <vishal.l.verma@intel.com>
Reported-by: Toshi Kani <toshi.kani@hpe.com>
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
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Providing mechanism to clear poison list via the ndctl ND_CMD_CLEAR_ERROR
call. We will update the poison list and also the badblocks at region level
if the region is in dax mode or in pmem mode and not active. In other
words we force badblocks to be cleared through write requests if the
address is currently accessed through a block device, otherwise it can
only be done via the ioctl+dsm path.
Signed-off-by: Dave Jiang <dave.jiang@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Johannes Thumshirn <jthumshirn@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
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badblocks sysfs file will be export at region level. When nvdimm event
notifier happens for NVDIMM_REVALIATE_POISON, the badblocks in the
region will be updated.
Signed-off-by: Dave Jiang <dave.jiang@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Johannes Thumshirn <jthumshirn@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
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nd_region device driver data will be used in the namespace i/o path.
Re-order nd_region_remove() to ensure this data stays live across
namespace device removal
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
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In preparation for triggering flushes of a DIMM's writes-posted-queue
(WPQ) via the pmem driver move mapping of flush hint addresses to the
region driver. Since this uses devm_nvdimm_memremap() the flush
addresses will remain mapped while any region to which the dimm belongs
is active.
We need to communicate more information to the nvdimm core to facilitate
this mapping, namely each dimm object now carries an array of flush hint
address resources.
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 persistent memory ranges to be allocated and
mapped without need of an intervening file system. This initial
infrastructure arranges for a libnvdimm pfn-device to be represented as
a different device-type so that it can be attached to a driver other
than the pmem driver.
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
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In preparation for asynchronous address range scrub support add an
ability for the pmem driver to dynamically consume address range scrub
results.
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
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Implement the base infrastructure for libnvdimm PFN devices. Similar to
BTT devices they take a namespace as a backing device and layer
functionality on top. In this case the functionality is reserving space
for an array of 'struct page' entries to be handed out through
pfn_to_page(). For now this is just the basic libnvdimm-device-model for
configuring the base PFN device.
As the namespace claiming mechanism for PFN devices is mostly identical
to BTT devices drivers/nvdimm/claim.c is created to house the common
bits.
Cc: Ross Zwisler <ross.zwisler@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
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The libnvdimm implementation handles allocating dimm address space (DPA)
between PMEM and BLK mode interfaces. After DPA has been allocated from
a BLK-region to a BLK-namespace the nd_blk driver attaches to handle I/O
as a struct bio based block device. Unlike PMEM, BLK is required to
handle platform specific details like mmio register formats and memory
controller interleave. For this reason the libnvdimm generic nd_blk
driver calls back into the bus provider to carry out the I/O.
This initial implementation handles the BLK interface defined by the
ACPI 6 NFIT [1] and the NVDIMM DSM Interface Example [2] composed from
DCR (dimm control region), BDW (block data window), IDT (interleave
descriptor) NFIT structures and the hardware register format.
[1]: http://www.uefi.org/sites/default/files/resources/ACPI_6.0.pdf
[2]: http://pmem.io/documents/NVDIMM_DSM_Interface_Example.pdf
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Cc: Boaz Harrosh <boaz@plexistor.com>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Ross Zwisler <ross.zwisler@linux.intel.com>
Acked-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
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BTT stands for Block Translation Table, and is a way to provide power
fail sector atomicity semantics for block devices that have the ability
to perform byte granularity IO. It relies on the capability of libnvdimm
namespace devices to do byte aligned IO.
The BTT works as a stacked blocked device, and reserves a chunk of space
from the backing device for its accounting metadata. It is a bio-based
driver because all IO is done synchronously, and there is no queuing or
asynchronous completions at either the device or the driver level.
The BTT uses 'lanes' to index into various 'on-disk' data structures,
and lanes also act as a synchronization mechanism in case there are more
CPUs than available lanes. We did a comparison between two lane lock
strategies - first where we kept an atomic counter around that tracked
which was the last lane that was used, and 'our' lane was determined by
atomically incrementing that. That way, for the nr_cpus > nr_lanes case,
theoretically, no CPU would be blocked waiting for a lane. The other
strategy was to use the cpu number we're scheduled on to and hash it to
a lane number. Theoretically, this could block an IO that could've
otherwise run using a different, free lane. But some fio workloads
showed that the direct cpu -> lane hash performed faster than tracking
'last lane' - my reasoning is the cache thrash caused by moving the
atomic variable made that approach slower than simply waiting out the
in-progress IO. This supports the conclusion that the driver can be a
very simple bio-based one that does synchronous IOs instead of queuing.
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Cc: Boaz Harrosh <boaz@plexistor.com>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Cc: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com>
Cc: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
Cc: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
[jmoyer: fix nmi watchdog timeout in btt_map_init]
[jmoyer: move btt initialization to module load path]
[jmoyer: fix memory leak in the btt initialization path]
[jmoyer: Don't overwrite corrupted arenas]
Signed-off-by: Vishal Verma <vishal.l.verma@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
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NVDIMM namespaces, in addition to accepting "struct bio" based requests,
also have the capability to perform byte-aligned accesses. By default
only the bio/block interface is used. However, if another driver can
make effective use of the byte-aligned capability it can claim namespace
interface and use the byte-aligned ->rw_bytes() interface.
The BTT driver is the initial first consumer of this mechanism to allow
adding atomic sector update semantics to a pmem or blk namespace. This
patch is the sysfs infrastructure to allow configuring a BTT instance
for a namespace. Enabling that BTT and performing i/o is in a
subsequent patch.
Cc: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
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A complete label set is a PMEM-label per-dimm per-interleave-set where
all the UUIDs match and the interleave set cookie matches the hosting
interleave set.
Present sysfs attributes for manipulation of a PMEM-namespace's
'alt_name', 'uuid', and 'size' attributes. A later patch will make
these settings persistent by writing back the label.
Note that PMEM allocations grow forwards from the start of an interleave
set (lowest dimm-physical-address (DPA)). BLK-namespaces that alias
with a PMEM interleave set will grow allocations backward from the
highest DPA.
Cc: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Acked-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
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The libnvdimm region driver is an intermediary driver that translates
non-volatile "region"s into "namespace" sub-devices that are surfaced by
persistent memory block-device drivers (PMEM and BLK).
ACPI 6 introduces the concept that a given nvdimm may simultaneously
offer multiple access modes to its media through direct PMEM load/store
access, or windowed BLK mode. Existing nvdimms mostly implement a PMEM
interface, some offer a BLK-like mode, but never both as ACPI 6 defines.
If an nvdimm is single interfaced, then there is no need for dimm
metadata labels. For these devices we can take the region boundaries
directly to create a child namespace device (nd_namespace_io).
Acked-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Tested-by: Toshi Kani <toshi.kani@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
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