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Stefan Hajnoczi
b7751410c1 device-dax: avoid hang on error before devm_memremap_pages()
dax_pmem_percpu_exit() waits for dax_pmem_percpu_release() to invoke the
dax_pmem->cmp completion.  Unfortunately this approach to cleaning up
the percpu_ref only works after devm_memremap_pages() was successful.

If devm_add_action_or_reset() or devm_memremap_pages() fails,
dax_pmem_percpu_release() is not invoked.  Therefore
dax_pmem_percpu_exit() hangs waiting for the completion:

  rc = devm_add_action_or_reset(dev, dax_pmem_percpu_exit,
  				&dax_pmem->ref);
  if (rc)
  	return rc;

  dax_pmem->pgmap.ref = &dax_pmem->ref;
  addr = devm_memremap_pages(dev, &dax_pmem->pgmap);

Avoid the hang by calling percpu_ref_exit() in the error paths instead
of going through dax_pmem_percpu_exit().

Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Dave Jiang <dave.jiang@intel.com>
2018-07-31 17:05:42 -07:00
Johannes Thumshirn
d812b0d500 device-dax: use module_nd_driver
Use module_nd_driver() instead of having module_init() and
module_exit() callbacks which just call nd_driver_register() and
nd_driver_unregister().

Signed-off-by: Johannes Thumshirn <jthumshirn@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
2018-03-15 07:18:47 -07:00
Dan Williams
6daaca522a device-dax: remove redundant __func__ in dev_dbg
Dynamic debug can be instructed to add the function name to the debug
output using the +f switch, so there is no need for the dax modules to
do it again. If a user decides to add the +f switch for the dax modules'
dynamic debug this results in double prints of the function name.

Reported-by: Johannes Thumshirn <jthumshirn@suse.de>
Reported-by: Ross Zwisler <ross.zwisler@linux.intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Ross Zwisler <ross.zwisler@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
2018-03-06 08:50:23 -08:00
Christoph Hellwig
e8d5134833 memremap: change devm_memremap_pages interface to use struct dev_pagemap
This new interface is similar to how struct device (and many others)
work. The caller initializes a 'struct dev_pagemap' as required
and calls 'devm_memremap_pages'. This allows the pagemap structure to
be embedded in another structure and thus container_of can be used. In
this way application specific members can be stored in a containing
struct.

This will be used by the P2P infrastructure and HMM could probably
be cleaned up to use it as well (instead of having it's own, similar
'hmm_devmem_pages_create' function).

Signed-off-by: Logan Gunthorpe <logang@deltatee.com>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
2018-01-08 11:46:23 -08:00
Dan Williams
bbb3be170a device-dax: fix sysfs duplicate warnings
Fix warnings of the form...

     WARNING: CPU: 10 PID: 4983 at fs/sysfs/dir.c:31 sysfs_warn_dup+0x62/0x80
     sysfs: cannot create duplicate filename '/class/dax/dax12.0'
     Call Trace:
      dump_stack+0x63/0x86
      __warn+0xcb/0xf0
      warn_slowpath_fmt+0x5a/0x80
      ? kernfs_path_from_node+0x4f/0x60
      sysfs_warn_dup+0x62/0x80
      sysfs_do_create_link_sd.isra.2+0x97/0xb0
      sysfs_create_link+0x25/0x40
      device_add+0x266/0x630
      devm_create_dax_dev+0x2cf/0x340 [dax]
      dax_pmem_probe+0x1f5/0x26e [dax_pmem]
      nvdimm_bus_probe+0x71/0x120

...by reusing the namespace id for the device-dax instance name.

Now that we have decided that there will never by more than one
device-dax instance per libnvdimm-namespace parent device [1], we can
directly reuse the namepace ids. There are some possible follow-on
cleanups, but those are saved for a later patch to simplify the -stable
backport.

[1]: https://lists.01.org/pipermail/linux-nvdimm/2016-December/008266.html

Fixes: 98a29c39dc ("libnvdimm, namespace: allow creation of multiple pmem...")
Cc: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Reported-by: Dariusz Dokupil <dariusz.dokupil@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
2017-07-18 17:49:14 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
53ef7d0e20 libnvdimm for 4.12
* Region media error reporting: A libnvdimm region device is the parent
 to one or more namespaces. To date, media errors have been reported via
 the "badblocks" attribute attached to pmem block devices for namespaces
 in "raw" or "memory" mode. Given that namespaces can be in "device-dax"
 or "btt-sector" mode this new interface reports media errors
 generically, i.e. independent of namespace modes or state. This
 subsequently allows userspace tooling to craft "ACPI 6.1 Section
 9.20.7.6 Function Index 4 - Clear Uncorrectable Error" requests and
 submit them via the ioctl path for NVDIMM root bus devices.
 
 * Introduce 'struct dax_device' and 'struct dax_operations': Prompted by
 a request from Linus and feedback from Christoph this allows for dax
 capable drivers to publish their own custom dax operations. This fixes
 the broken assumption that all dax operations are related to a
 persistent memory device, and makes it easier for other architectures
 and platforms to add customized persistent memory support.
 
 * 'libnvdimm' core updates: A new "deep_flush" sysfs attribute is
 available for storage appliance applications to manually trigger memory
 controllers to drain write-pending buffers that would otherwise be
 flushed automatically by the platform ADR (asynchronous-DRAM-refresh)
 mechanism at a power loss event. Support for "locked" DIMMs is included
 to prevent namespaces from surfacing when the namespace label data area
 is locked. Finally, fixes for various reported deadlocks and crashes,
 also tagged for -stable.
 
 * ACPI / nfit driver updates: General updates of the nfit driver to add
 DSM command overrides, ACPI 6.1 health state flags support, DSM payload
 debug available by default, and various fixes.
 
 Acknowledgements that came after the branch was pushed:
 
 commmit 565851c972 "device-dax: fix sysfs attribute deadlock"
 Tested-by: Yi Zhang <yizhan@redhat.com>
 
 commit 23f4984483 "libnvdimm: rework region badblocks clearing"
 Tested-by: Toshi Kani <toshi.kani@hpe.com>
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Merge tag 'libnvdimm-for-4.12' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/nvdimm/nvdimm

Pull libnvdimm updates from Dan Williams:
 "The bulk of this has been in multiple -next releases. There were a few
  late breaking fixes and small features that got added in the last
  couple days, but the whole set has received a build success
  notification from the kbuild robot.

  Change summary:

   - Region media error reporting: A libnvdimm region device is the
     parent to one or more namespaces. To date, media errors have been
     reported via the "badblocks" attribute attached to pmem block
     devices for namespaces in "raw" or "memory" mode. Given that
     namespaces can be in "device-dax" or "btt-sector" mode this new
     interface reports media errors generically, i.e. independent of
     namespace modes or state.

     This subsequently allows userspace tooling to craft "ACPI 6.1
     Section 9.20.7.6 Function Index 4 - Clear Uncorrectable Error"
     requests and submit them via the ioctl path for NVDIMM root bus
     devices.

   - Introduce 'struct dax_device' and 'struct dax_operations': Prompted
     by a request from Linus and feedback from Christoph this allows for
     dax capable drivers to publish their own custom dax operations.
     This fixes the broken assumption that all dax operations are
     related to a persistent memory device, and makes it easier for
     other architectures and platforms to add customized persistent
     memory support.

   - 'libnvdimm' core updates: A new "deep_flush" sysfs attribute is
     available for storage appliance applications to manually trigger
     memory controllers to drain write-pending buffers that would
     otherwise be flushed automatically by the platform ADR
     (asynchronous-DRAM-refresh) mechanism at a power loss event.
     Support for "locked" DIMMs is included to prevent namespaces from
     surfacing when the namespace label data area is locked. Finally,
     fixes for various reported deadlocks and crashes, also tagged for
     -stable.

   - ACPI / nfit driver updates: General updates of the nfit driver to
     add DSM command overrides, ACPI 6.1 health state flags support, DSM
     payload debug available by default, and various fixes.

  Acknowledgements that came after the branch was pushed:

   - commmit 565851c972 "device-dax: fix sysfs attribute deadlock":
     Tested-by: Yi Zhang <yizhan@redhat.com>

   - commit 23f4984483 "libnvdimm: rework region badblocks clearing"
     Tested-by: Toshi Kani <toshi.kani@hpe.com>"

* tag 'libnvdimm-for-4.12' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/nvdimm/nvdimm: (52 commits)
  libnvdimm, pfn: fix 'npfns' vs section alignment
  libnvdimm: handle locked label storage areas
  libnvdimm: convert NDD_ flags to use bitops, introduce NDD_LOCKED
  brd: fix uninitialized use of brd->dax_dev
  block, dax: use correct format string in bdev_dax_supported
  device-dax: fix sysfs attribute deadlock
  libnvdimm: restore "libnvdimm: band aid btt vs clear poison locking"
  libnvdimm: fix nvdimm_bus_lock() vs device_lock() ordering
  libnvdimm: rework region badblocks clearing
  acpi, nfit: kill ACPI_NFIT_DEBUG
  libnvdimm: fix clear length of nvdimm_forget_poison()
  libnvdimm, pmem: fix a NULL pointer BUG in nd_pmem_notify
  libnvdimm, region: sysfs trigger for nvdimm_flush()
  libnvdimm: fix phys_addr for nvdimm_clear_poison
  x86, dax, pmem: remove indirection around memcpy_from_pmem()
  block: remove block_device_operations ->direct_access()
  block, dax: convert bdev_dax_supported() to dax_direct_access()
  filesystem-dax: convert to dax_direct_access()
  Revert "block: use DAX for partition table reads"
  ext2, ext4, xfs: retrieve dax_device for iomap operations
  ...
2017-05-05 18:49:20 -07:00
Dan Williams
7138970383 mm, zone_device: Replace {get, put}_zone_device_page() with a single reference to fix pmem crash
The x86 conversion to the generic GUP code included a small change which causes
crashes and data corruption in the pmem code - not good.

The root cause is that the /dev/pmem driver code implicitly relies on the x86
get_user_pages() implementation doing a get_page() on the page refcount, because
get_page() does a get_zone_device_page() which properly refcounts pmem's separate
page struct arrays that are not present in the regular page struct structures.
(The pmem driver does this because it can cover huge memory areas.)

But the x86 conversion to the generic GUP code changed the get_page() to
page_cache_get_speculative() which is faster but doesn't do the
get_zone_device_page() call the pmem code relies on.

One way to solve the regression would be to change the generic GUP code to use
get_page(), but that would slow things down a bit and punish other generic-GUP
using architectures for an x86-ism they did not care about. (Arguably the pmem
driver was probably not working reliably for them: but nvdimm is an Intel
feature, so non-x86 exposure is probably still limited.)

So restructure the pmem code's interface with the MM instead: get rid of the
get/put_zone_device_page() distinction, integrate put_zone_device_page() into
__put_page() and and restructure the pmem completion-wait and teardown machinery:

Kirill points out that the calls to {get,put}_dev_pagemap() can be
removed from the mm fast path if we take a single get_dev_pagemap()
reference to signify that the page is alive and use the final put of the
page to drop that reference.

This does require some care to make sure that any waits for the
percpu_ref to drop to zero occur *after* devm_memremap_page_release(),
since it now maintains its own elevated reference.

This speeds up things while also making the pmem refcounting more robust going
forward.

Suggested-by: Kirill Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Tested-by: Kirill Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Logan Gunthorpe <logang@deltatee.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com>
Cc: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@redhat.com>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
Cc: Jérôme Glisse <jglisse@redhat.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/149339998297.24933.1129582806028305912.stgit@dwillia2-desk3.amr.corp.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2017-05-01 09:15:53 +02:00
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
Dan Williams
5f0694b300 device-dax: rename 'dax_dev' to 'dev_dax'
In preparation for introducing a struct dax_device type to the kernel
global type namespace, rename dax_dev to dev_dax. A 'dax_device'
instance will be a generic device-driver object for any provider of dax
functionality. A 'dev_dax' object is a device-dax-driver local /
internal instance.

Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
2017-04-12 21:59:13 -07:00
Dan Williams
c44ef859ce Merge branch 'for-4.10/libnvdimm' into libnvdimm-for-next 2016-12-17 15:08:10 -08:00
Dan Williams
450c6633e8 libnvdimm: use consistent naming for request_mem_region()
Here is an example /proc/iomem listing for a system with 2 namespaces,
one in "sector" mode and one in "memory" mode:

  1fc000000-2fbffffff : Persistent Memory (legacy)
    1fc000000-2fbffffff : namespace1.0
  340000000-34fffffff : Persistent Memory
    340000000-34fffffff : btt0.1

Here is the corresponding ndctl listing:

  # ndctl list
  [
    {
      "dev":"namespace1.0",
      "mode":"memory",
      "size":4294967296,
      "blockdev":"pmem1"
    },
    {
      "dev":"namespace0.0",
      "mode":"sector",
      "size":267091968,
      "uuid":"f7594f86-badb-4592-875f-ded577da2eaf",
      "sector_size":4096,
      "blockdev":"pmem0s"
    }
  ]

Notice that the ndctl listing is purely in terms of namespace devices,
while the iomem listing leaks the internal "btt0.1" implementation
detail. Given that ndctl requires the namespace device name to change
the mode, for example:

  # ndctl create-namespace --reconfig=namespace0.0 --mode=raw --force

...use the namespace name in the iomem listing to keep the claiming
device name consistent across different mode settings.

Cc: Vishal Verma <vishal.l.verma@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
2016-11-28 11:15:18 -08:00
Dan Williams
6a84fb4b4e device-dax: check devm_nsio_enable() return value
If the dax_pmem driver is passed a resource that is already busy the
driver probe attempt should fail with a message like the following:

  dax_pmem dax0.1: could not reserve region [mem 0x100000000-0x11fffffff]

However, if we do not catch the error we crash for the obvious reason of
accessing memory that is not mapped.

 BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request at ffffc90020001000
 IP: [<ffffffff81496712>] __memcpy+0x12/0x20
 [..]
 Call Trace:
  [<ffffffff815c4960>] ? nsio_rw_bytes+0x60/0x180
  [<ffffffff815c6045>] nd_pfn_validate+0x75/0x320
  [<ffffffff815c63a9>] nvdimm_setup_pfn+0xb9/0x5d0
  [<ffffffff815c48ef>] ? devm_nsio_enable+0xff/0x110
  [<ffffffff815cb699>] dax_pmem_probe+0x59/0x260

Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Fixes: ab68f26221 ("/dev/dax, pmem: direct access to persistent memory")
Reported-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
2016-10-28 14:35:25 -07:00
Dan Williams
52e73eb287 device-dax: fix percpu_ref_exit ordering
We need to wait until the percpu_ref is released before exit. Otherwise,
we sometimes lose the race and trigger this new warning that was added
in v4.9 (commit a67823c1ed "percpu-refcount: init ->confirm_switch
member properly"):

 WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 3629 at lib/percpu-refcount.c:107 percpu_ref_exit+0x51/0x60
 [..]
 Call Trace:
  [<ffffffff814bf093>] dump_stack+0x85/0xc2
  [<ffffffff810b15db>] __warn+0xcb/0xf0
  [<ffffffff810b170d>] warn_slowpath_null+0x1d/0x20
  [<ffffffff814d70c1>] percpu_ref_exit+0x51/0x60
  [<ffffffffa005706a>] dax_pmem_percpu_exit+0x1a/0x50 [dax_pmem]
  [<ffffffff81615f1f>] devm_action_release+0xf/0x20

Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Fixes: ab68f26221 ("/dev/dax, pmem: direct access to persistent memory")
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
2016-10-27 17:04:05 -07:00
Dan Williams
e476f94482 Merge branch 'for-4.9/dax' into libnvdimm-for-next 2016-10-07 16:46:30 -07:00
Dan Williams
d76911ee93 dax: convert devm_create_dax_dev to PTR_ERR
For sub-division support we need access to the dax_dev created by
devm_create_dax_dev().

Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
2016-10-07 16:45:59 -07:00
Dan Williams
d0e5845561 dax: fix device-dax region base
The data offset for a dax region needs to account for a reservation in
the resource range.  Otherwise, device-dax is allowing mappings directly
into the memmap or device-info-block area with crash signatures like the
following:

 BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 0000000000000008
 IP: get_zone_device_page+0x11/0x30
 Call Trace:
   follow_devmap_pmd+0x298/0x2c0
   follow_page_mask+0x275/0x530
   __get_user_pages+0xe3/0x750
   __gfn_to_pfn_memslot+0x1b2/0x450 [kvm]
   tdp_page_fault+0x130/0x280 [kvm]
   kvm_mmu_page_fault+0x5f/0xf0 [kvm]
   handle_ept_violation+0x94/0x180 [kvm_intel]
   vmx_handle_exit+0x1d3/0x1440 [kvm_intel]
   kvm_arch_vcpu_ioctl_run+0x81d/0x16a0 [kvm]
   kvm_vcpu_ioctl+0x33c/0x620 [kvm]
   do_vfs_ioctl+0xa2/0x5d0
   SyS_ioctl+0x79/0x90
   entry_SYSCALL_64_fastpath+0x1a/0xa4

Fixes: ab68f26221 ("/dev/dax, pmem: direct access to persistent memory")
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/147205536732.1606.8994275381938837346.stgit@dwillia2-desk3.amr.corp.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Reported-by: Abhilash Kumar Mulumudi <m.abhilash-kumar@hpe.com>
Reported-by: Toshi Kani <toshi.kani@hpe.com>
Tested-by: Toshi Kani <toshi.kani@hpe.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2016-08-26 17:39:35 -07:00
Dan Williams
ccdb07f629 dax: cleanup needlessly global symbol warnings
drivers/dax/dax.c:75:6: warning: symbol 'dax_region_put' was not declared.
drivers/dax/dax.c:95:19: warning: symbol 'alloc_dax_region' was not declared.
drivers/dax/dax.c:173:5: warning: symbol 'devm_create_dax_dev' was not declared.
drivers/dax/pmem.c:27:17: warning: symbol 'to_dax_pmem' was not declared.

Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
2016-08-23 22:58:50 -07:00
Sajjan, Vikas C
d1c8e0c521 dax: use devm_add_action_or_reset()
If devm_add_action() fails, we are explicitly calling the cleanup to free
the resources allocated. Use the helper devm_add_action_or_reset()
and return directly in case of error, since the cleanup function
has been already called by the helper if there was any error.

Reported-by: Sudip Mukherjee <sudipm.mukherjee@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Vikas C Sajjan <vikas.cha.sajjan@hpe.com>
Reviewed-by: Johannes Thumshirn <jthumshirn@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
2016-07-06 15:14:48 -07:00
Dan Williams
ab68f26221 /dev/dax, pmem: direct access to persistent memory
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>
2016-05-20 22:02:53 -07:00