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Author SHA1 Message Date
Dan Williams 6a21586a63 dax: stop requiring a live device for dax_flush()
Now that dax_flush() is no longer a driver callback (commit c3ca015fab
"dax: remove the pmem_dax_ops->flush abstraction"), stop requiring the
dax_read_lock() to be held and the device to be alive.  This is in
preparation for switching filesystem-dax to store pfns instead of
sectors in the radix.

Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
2017-11-14 16:49:15 -08:00
Dan Williams 66a86cc109 dax: quiet bdev_dax_supported()
Before we add another failure reason, quiet the existing log messages.
Leave it to the caller to decide if bdev_dax_supported() failures are
errors worth emitting to the log.

Reported-by: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
2017-11-14 16:48:52 -08:00
Linus Torvalds dff4d1f6fe - Some request-based DM core and DM multipath fixes and cleanups
- Constify a few variables in DM core and DM integrity
 
 - Add bufio optimization and checksum failure accounting to DM integrity
 
 - Fix DM integrity to avoid checking integrity of failed reads
 
 - Fix DM integrity to use init_completion
 
 - A couple DM log-writes target fixes
 
 - Simplify DAX flushing by eliminating the unnecessary flush abstraction
   that was stood up for DM's use.
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Merge tag 'for-4.14/dm-changes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/device-mapper/linux-dm

Pull device mapper updates from Mike Snitzer:

 - Some request-based DM core and DM multipath fixes and cleanups

 - Constify a few variables in DM core and DM integrity

 - Add bufio optimization and checksum failure accounting to DM
   integrity

 - Fix DM integrity to avoid checking integrity of failed reads

 - Fix DM integrity to use init_completion

 - A couple DM log-writes target fixes

 - Simplify DAX flushing by eliminating the unnecessary flush
   abstraction that was stood up for DM's use.

* tag 'for-4.14/dm-changes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/device-mapper/linux-dm:
  dax: remove the pmem_dax_ops->flush abstraction
  dm integrity: use init_completion instead of COMPLETION_INITIALIZER_ONSTACK
  dm integrity: make blk_integrity_profile structure const
  dm integrity: do not check integrity for failed read operations
  dm log writes: fix >512b sectorsize support
  dm log writes: don't use all the cpu while waiting to log blocks
  dm ioctl: constify ioctl lookup table
  dm: constify argument arrays
  dm integrity: count and display checksum failures
  dm integrity: optimize writing dm-bufio buffers that are partially changed
  dm rq: do not update rq partially in each ending bio
  dm rq: make dm-sq requeuing behavior consistent with dm-mq behavior
  dm mpath: complain about unsupported __multipath_map_bio() return values
  dm mpath: avoid that building with W=1 causes gcc 7 to complain about fall-through
2017-09-14 13:43:16 -07:00
Mikulas Patocka c3ca015fab dax: remove the pmem_dax_ops->flush abstraction
Commit abebfbe2f7 ("dm: add ->flush() dax operation support") is
buggy. A DM device may be composed of multiple underlying devices and
all of them need to be flushed. That commit just routes the flush
request to the first device and ignores the other devices.

It could be fixed by adding more complex logic to the device mapper. But
there is only one implementation of the method pmem_dax_ops->flush - that
is pmem_dax_flush() - and it calls arch_wb_cache_pmem(). Consequently, we
don't need the pmem_dax_ops->flush abstraction at all, we can call
arch_wb_cache_pmem() directly from dax_flush() because dax_dev->ops->flush
can't ever reach anything different from arch_wb_cache_pmem().

It should be also pointed out that for some uses of persistent memory it
is needed to flush only a very small amount of data (such as 1 cacheline),
and it would be overkill if we go through that device mapper machinery for
a single flushed cache line.

Fix this by removing the pmem_dax_ops->flush abstraction and call
arch_wb_cache_pmem() directly from dax_flush(). Also, remove the device
mapper code that forwards the flushes.

Fixes: abebfbe2f7 ("dm: add ->flush() dax operation support")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
2017-09-11 11:00:55 -04:00
Dan Williams 26f2f4de0b dax: fix FS_DAX=n BLOCK=y compilation
The 0day kbuild robot reports:

>> drivers//dax/super.c:64:20: error: redefinition of 'fs_dax_get_by_bdev'
    struct dax_device *fs_dax_get_by_bdev(struct block_device *bdev)
                       ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
   In file included from drivers//dax/super.c:22:0:
   include/linux/dax.h:76:34: note: previous definition of 'fs_dax_get_by_bdev' was here
    static inline struct dax_device *fs_dax_get_by_bdev(struct block_device *bdev)
                                     ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Protect the definition of fs_dax_get_by_bdev() in drivers/dax/super.c
with an ifdef.

Fixes: 78f3547350 ("dax: introduce a fs_dax_get_by_bdev() helper")
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Reported-by: kbuild test robot <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
2017-09-03 10:17:53 -07:00
Dan Williams 78f3547350 dax: introduce a fs_dax_get_by_bdev() helper
Add a helper that can replace the following common pattern:

	if (blk_queue_dax(bdev->bd_queue))
		fs_dax_get_by_host(bdev->bd_disk->disk_name);

This will be used to move dax_device lookup from iomap-operation time to
fs-mount time.

Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
2017-08-30 09:16:38 -07:00
Vivek Goyal 273752c9ff dm, dax: Make sure dm_dax_flush() is called if device supports it
Currently dm_dax_flush() is not being called, even if underlying dax
device supports write cache, because DAXDEV_WRITE_CACHE is not being
propagated up to the DM dax device.

If the underlying dax device supports write cache, set
DAXDEV_WRITE_CACHE on the DM dax device.  This will cause dm_dax_flush()
to be called.

Fixes: abebfbe2f7 ("dm: add ->flush() dax operation support")
Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
2017-07-26 15:55:44 -04:00
Linus Torvalds b6ffe9ba46 libnvdimm for 4.13
* Introduce the _flushcache() family of memory copy helpers and use them
   for persistent memory write operations on x86. The _flushcache()
   semantic indicates that the cache is either bypassed for the copy
   operation (movnt) or any lines dirtied by the copy operation are
   written back (clwb, clflushopt, or clflush).
 
 * Extend dax_operations with ->copy_from_iter() and ->flush()
   operations. These operations and other infrastructure updates allow
   all persistent memory specific dax functionality to be pushed into
   libnvdimm and the pmem driver directly. It also allows dax-specific
   sysfs attributes to be linked to a host device, for example:
       /sys/block/pmem0/dax/write_cache
 
 * Add support for the new NVDIMM platform/firmware mechanisms introduced
   in ACPI 6.2 and UEFI 2.7. This support includes the v1.2 namespace
   label format, extensions to the address-range-scrub command set, new
   error injection commands, and a new BTT (block-translation-table)
   layout. These updates support inter-OS and pre-OS compatibility.
 
 * Fix a longstanding memory corruption bug in nfit_test.
 
 * Make the pmem and nvdimm-region 'badblocks' sysfs files poll(2)
   capable.
 
 * Miscellaneous fixes and small updates across libnvdimm and the nfit
   driver.
 
 Acknowledgements that came after the branch was pushed:
 
 commit 6aa734a2f3 "libnvdimm, region, pmem: fix 'badblocks'
   sysfs_get_dirent() reference lifetime"
 Reviewed-by: Toshi Kani <toshi.kani@hpe.com>
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Merge tag 'libnvdimm-for-4.13' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/nvdimm/nvdimm

Pull libnvdimm updates from Dan Williams:
 "libnvdimm updates for the latest ACPI and UEFI specifications. This
  pull request also includes new 'struct dax_operations' enabling to
  undo the abuse of copy_user_nocache() for copy operations to pmem.

  The dax work originally missed 4.12 to address concerns raised by Al.

  Summary:

   - Introduce the _flushcache() family of memory copy helpers and use
     them for persistent memory write operations on x86. The
     _flushcache() semantic indicates that the cache is either bypassed
     for the copy operation (movnt) or any lines dirtied by the copy
     operation are written back (clwb, clflushopt, or clflush).

   - Extend dax_operations with ->copy_from_iter() and ->flush()
     operations. These operations and other infrastructure updates allow
     all persistent memory specific dax functionality to be pushed into
     libnvdimm and the pmem driver directly. It also allows dax-specific
     sysfs attributes to be linked to a host device, for example:
     /sys/block/pmem0/dax/write_cache

   - Add support for the new NVDIMM platform/firmware mechanisms
     introduced in ACPI 6.2 and UEFI 2.7. This support includes the v1.2
     namespace label format, extensions to the address-range-scrub
     command set, new error injection commands, and a new BTT
     (block-translation-table) layout. These updates support inter-OS
     and pre-OS compatibility.

   - Fix a longstanding memory corruption bug in nfit_test.

   - Make the pmem and nvdimm-region 'badblocks' sysfs files poll(2)
     capable.

   - Miscellaneous fixes and small updates across libnvdimm and the nfit
     driver.

  Acknowledgements that came after the branch was pushed: commit
  6aa734a2f3 ("libnvdimm, region, pmem: fix 'badblocks'
  sysfs_get_dirent() reference lifetime") was reviewed by Toshi Kani
  <toshi.kani@hpe.com>"

* tag 'libnvdimm-for-4.13' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/nvdimm/nvdimm: (42 commits)
  libnvdimm, namespace: record 'lbasize' for pmem namespaces
  acpi/nfit: Issue Start ARS to retrieve existing records
  libnvdimm: New ACPI 6.2 DSM functions
  acpi, nfit: Show bus_dsm_mask in sysfs
  libnvdimm, acpi, nfit: Add bus level dsm mask for pass thru.
  acpi, nfit: Enable DSM pass thru for root functions.
  libnvdimm: passthru functions clear to send
  libnvdimm, btt: convert some info messages to warn/err
  libnvdimm, region, pmem: fix 'badblocks' sysfs_get_dirent() reference lifetime
  libnvdimm: fix the clear-error check in nsio_rw_bytes
  libnvdimm, btt: fix btt_rw_page not returning errors
  acpi, nfit: quiet invalid block-aperture-region warnings
  libnvdimm, btt: BTT updates for UEFI 2.7 format
  acpi, nfit: constify *_attribute_group
  libnvdimm, pmem: disable dax flushing when pmem is fronting a volatile region
  libnvdimm, pmem, dax: export a cache control attribute
  dax: convert to bitmask for flags
  dax: remove default copy_from_iter fallback
  libnvdimm, nfit: enable support for volatile ranges
  libnvdimm, pmem: fix persistence warning
  ...
2017-07-07 09:44:06 -07:00
Dan Williams 6e0c90d691 libnvdimm, pmem, dax: export a cache control attribute
The dax_flush() operation can be turned into a nop on platforms where
firmware arranges for cpu caches to be flushed on a power-fail event.
The ACPI 6.2 specification defines a mechanism for the platform to
indicate this capability so the kernel can select the proper default.
However, for other platforms, the administrator must toggle this setting
manually.

Given this flush setting is a dax-specific mechanism we advertise it
through a 'dax' attribute group hanging off a host device. For example,
a 'pmem0' block-device gets a 'dax' sysfs-subdirectory with a
'write_cache' attribute to control response to dax cache flush requests.
This is similar to the 'queue/write_cache' attribute that appears under
block devices.

Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Cc: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <mawilcox@microsoft.com>
Cc: Ross Zwisler <ross.zwisler@linux.intel.com>
Suggested-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
2017-06-29 09:29:50 -07:00
Dan Williams 9a60c3ef57 dax: convert to bitmask for flags
In preparation for adding more flags, convert the existing flag to a
bit-flag.

Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
2017-06-29 09:29:49 -07:00
Dan Williams 5d61e43b39 dax: remove default copy_from_iter fallback
Require all dax-drivers to register a ->copy_from_iter() operation so
that it is clear which dax_operations are optional and which must be
implemented for filesystem-dax to operate.

Cc: Gerald Schaefer <gerald.schaefer@de.ibm.com>
Suggested-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
2017-06-27 16:44:27 -07:00
Dan Williams abebfbe2f7 dm: add ->flush() dax operation support
Allow device-mapper to route flush operations to the
per-target implementation. In order for the device stacking to work we
need a dax_dev and a pgoff relative to that device. This gives each
layer of the stack the information it needs to look up the operation
pointer for the next level.

This conceptually allows for an array of mixed device drivers with
varying flush implementations.

Reviewed-by: Toshi Kani <toshi.kani@hpe.com>
Reviewed-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
2017-06-15 14:34:59 -07:00
Dan Williams 7e026c8c0a dm: add ->copy_from_iter() dax operation support
Allow device-mapper to route copy_from_iter operations to the
per-target implementation. In order for the device stacking to work we
need a dax_dev and a pgoff relative to that device. This gives each
layer of the stack the information it needs to look up the operation
pointer for the next level.

This conceptually allows for an array of mixed device drivers with
varying copy_from_iter implementations.

Reviewed-by: Toshi Kani <toshi.kani@hpe.com>
Reviewed-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
2017-06-09 09:22:21 -07:00
Dan Williams b9d39d17e4 device-dax: fix 'dax' device filesystem inode destruction crash
The inode destruction path for the 'dax' device filesystem incorrectly
assumes that the inode was initialized through 'alloc_dax()'. However,
if someone attempts to directly mount the dax filesystem with 'mount -t
dax dax mnt' that will bypass 'alloc_dax()' and the following failure
signatures may occur as a result:

 kill_dax() must be called before final iput()
 WARNING: CPU: 2 PID: 1188 at drivers/dax/super.c:243 dax_destroy_inode+0x48/0x50
 RIP: 0010:dax_destroy_inode+0x48/0x50
 Call Trace:
  destroy_inode+0x3b/0x60
  evict+0x139/0x1c0
  iput+0x1f9/0x2d0
  dentry_unlink_inode+0xc3/0x160
  __dentry_kill+0xcf/0x180
  ? dput+0x37/0x3b0
  dput+0x3a3/0x3b0
  do_one_tree+0x36/0x40
  shrink_dcache_for_umount+0x2d/0x90
  generic_shutdown_super+0x1f/0x120
  kill_anon_super+0x12/0x20
  deactivate_locked_super+0x43/0x70
  deactivate_super+0x4e/0x60

 general protection fault: 0000 [#1] SMP DEBUG_PAGEALLOC
 RIP: 0010:kfree+0x6d/0x290
 Call Trace:
  <IRQ>
  dax_i_callback+0x22/0x60
  ? dax_destroy_inode+0x50/0x50
  rcu_process_callbacks+0x298/0x740

 ida_remove called for id=0 which is not allocated.
 WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 0 at lib/idr.c:383 ida_remove+0x110/0x120
 [..]
 Call Trace:
  <IRQ>
  ida_simple_remove+0x2b/0x50
  ? dax_destroy_inode+0x50/0x50
  dax_i_callback+0x3c/0x60
  rcu_process_callbacks+0x298/0x740

Add missing initialization of the 'struct dax_device' and inode so that
the destruction path does not kfree() or ida_simple_remove()
uninitialized data.

Fixes: 7b6be8444e ("dax: refactor dax-fs into a generic provider of 'struct dax_device' instances")
Reported-by: Sasha Levin <alexander.levin@verizon.com>
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
2017-06-09 08:50:49 -07:00
Dan Williams 9d109081c2 dax: fix false CONFIG_BLOCK dependency
In the BLOCK=n case the dax core does not need to / must not emit the
block-device-dax helpers. Otherwise it leads to compile errors.

Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Reported-by: Fabian Frederick <fabf@skynet.be>
Fixes: ef51042472 ("block, dax: move 'select DAX' from BLOCK to FS_DAX")
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
2017-05-13 16:18:21 -07:00
Dan Williams cf1e22891b device-dax: kill NR_DEV_DAX
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: ba09c01d2f ("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>
2017-05-09 09:08:22 -07:00
Dan Williams ef51042472 block, dax: move "select DAX" from BLOCK to FS_DAX
For configurations that do not enable DAX filesystems or drivers, do not
require the DAX core to be built.

Given that the 'direct_access' method has been removed from
'block_device_operations', we can also go ahead and remove the
block-related dax helper functions from fs/block_dev.c to
drivers/dax/super.c. This keeps dax details out of the block layer and
lets the DAX core be built as a module in the FS_DAX=n case.

Filesystems need to include dax.h to call bdev_dax_supported().

Cc: linux-xfs@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Cc: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <mawilcox@microsoft.com>
Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: "Darrick J. Wong" <darrick.wong@oracle.com>
Cc: Ross Zwisler <ross.zwisler@linux.intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.com>
Reported-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
2017-05-08 10:55:27 -07:00
Dan Williams b0686260fe dax: introduce dax_direct_access()
Replace bdev_direct_access() with dax_direct_access() that uses
dax_device and dax_operations instead of a block_device and
block_device_operations for dax. Once all consumers of the old api have
been converted bdev_direct_access() will be deleted.

Given that block device partitioning decisions can cause dax page
alignment constraints to be violated this also introduces the
bdev_dax_pgoff() helper. It handles calculating a logical pgoff relative
to the dax_device and also checks for page alignment.

Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
2017-04-20 11:57:52 -07:00
Dan Williams 6568b08b77 dax: introduce dax_operations
Track a set of dax_operations per dax_device that can be set at
alloc_dax() time. These operations will be used to stop the abuse of
block_device_operations for communicating dax capabilities to
filesystems. It will also be used to replace the "pmem api" and move
pmem-specific cache maintenance, and other dax-driver-specific
filesystem-dax operations, to dax device methods. In particular this
allows us to stop abusing __copy_user_nocache(), via memcpy_to_pmem(),
with a driver specific replacement.

This is a standalone introduction of the operations. Follow on patches
convert each dax-driver and teach fs/dax.c to use ->direct_access() from
dax_operations instead of block_device_operations.

Suggested-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
2017-04-19 15:14:35 -07:00
Dan Williams 7205800541 dax: add a facility to lookup a dax device by 'host' device name
For the current block_device based filesystem-dax path, we need a way
for it to lookup the dax_device associated with a block_device. Add a
'host' property of a dax_device that can be used for this purpose. It is
a free form string, but for a dax_device associated with a block device
it is the bdev name.

This is a stop-gap until filesystems are able to mount on a dax-inode
directly.

Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
2017-04-19 15:14:31 -07:00
Dan Williams 7b6be8444e dax: refactor dax-fs into a generic provider of 'struct dax_device' instances
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>
2017-04-12 21:59:14 -07:00