linux-stable.git/drivers/block/brd.c, branch v4.15

Merge tag 'libnvdimm-for-4.15' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/nvdimm/nvdimm

2017-11-17T17:51:57+00:00

Pull libnvdimm and dax updates from Dan Williams:
 "Save for a few late fixes, all of these commits have shipped in -next
  releases since before the merge window opened, and 0day has given a
  build success notification.

  The ext4 touches came from Jan, and the xfs touches have Darrick's
  reviewed-by. An xfstest for the MAP_SYNC feature has been through
  a few round of reviews and is on track to be merged.

   - Introduce MAP_SYNC and MAP_SHARED_VALIDATE, a mechanism to enable
     'userspace flush' of persistent memory updates via filesystem-dax
     mappings. It arranges for any filesystem metadata updates that may
     be required to satisfy a write fault to also be flushed ("on disk")
     before the kernel returns to userspace from the fault handler.
     Effectively every write-fault that dirties metadata completes an
     fsync() before returning from the fault handler. The new
     MAP_SHARED_VALIDATE mapping type guarantees that the MAP_SYNC flag
     is validated as supported by the filesystem's ->mmap() file
     operation.

   - Add support for the standard ACPI 6.2 label access methods that
     replace the NVDIMM_FAMILY_INTEL (vendor specific) label methods.
     This enables interoperability with environments that only implement
     the standardized methods.

   - Add support for the ACPI 6.2 NVDIMM media error injection methods.

   - Add support for the NVDIMM_FAMILY_INTEL v1.6 DIMM commands for
     latch last shutdown status, firmware update, SMART error injection,
     and SMART alarm threshold control.

   - Cleanup physical address information disclosures to be root-only.

   - Fix revalidation of the DIMM "locked label area" status to support
     dynamic unlock of the label area.

   - Expand unit test infrastructure to mock the ACPI 6.2 Translate SPA
     (system-physical-address) command and error injection commands.

  Acknowledgements that came after the commits were pushed to -next:

   - 957ac8c421ad ("dax: fix PMD faults on zero-length files"):
       Reviewed-by: Ross Zwisler 

   - a39e596baa07 ("xfs: support for synchronous DAX faults") and
     7b565c9f965b ("xfs: Implement xfs_filemap_pfn_mkwrite() using __xfs_filemap_fault()")
        Reviewed-by: Darrick J. Wong "

* tag 'libnvdimm-for-4.15' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/nvdimm/nvdimm: (49 commits)
  acpi, nfit: add 'Enable Latch System Shutdown Status' command support
  dax: fix general protection fault in dax_alloc_inode
  dax: fix PMD faults on zero-length files
  dax: stop requiring a live device for dax_flush()
  brd: remove dax support
  dax: quiet bdev_dax_supported()
  fs, dax: unify IOMAP_F_DIRTY read vs write handling policy in the dax core
  tools/testing/nvdimm: unit test clear-error commands
  acpi, nfit: validate commands against the device type
  tools/testing/nvdimm: stricter bounds checking for error injection commands
  xfs: support for synchronous DAX faults
  xfs: Implement xfs_filemap_pfn_mkwrite() using __xfs_filemap_fault()
  ext4: Support for synchronous DAX faults
  ext4: Simplify error handling in ext4_dax_huge_fault()
  dax: Implement dax_finish_sync_fault()
  dax, iomap: Add support for synchronous faults
  mm: Define MAP_SYNC and VM_SYNC flags
  dax: Allow tuning whether dax_insert_mapping_entry() dirties entry
  dax: Allow dax_iomap_fault() to return pfn
  dax: Fix comment describing dax_iomap_fault()
  ...

bdi: introduce BDI_CAP_SYNCHRONOUS_IO

2017-11-16T02:21:02+00:00

As discussed at

  https://lkml.kernel.org/r/<20170728165604.10455-1-ross.zwisler@linux.intel.com>

someday we will remove rw_page().  If so, we need something to detect
such super-fast storage on which synchronous IO operations like the
current rw_page are always a win.

Introduces BDI_CAP_SYNCHRONOUS_IO to indicate such devices.  With it, we
could use various optimization techniques.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1505886205-9671-3-git-send-email-minchan@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Minchan Kim 
Cc: Christoph Hellwig 
Cc: Dan Williams 
Cc: Ross Zwisler 
Cc: Hugh Dickins 
Cc: Ilya Dryomov 
Cc: Jens Axboe 
Cc: Sergey Senozhatsky 
Cc: Huang Ying 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

brd: remove dax support

2017-11-15T00:49:06+00:00

DAX support in brd is awkward because its backing page frames are
distinct from the ones provided by pmem, dcssblk, or axonram. We need
pfn_t_devmap() entries to fully support DAX, and the limited DAX support
for pfn_t_special() page frames is not interesting for brd when pmem is
already a superset of brd.  Lastly, brd is the only dax capable driver
that may sleep in its ->direct_access() implementation. So it causes a
global burden with no net gain of kernel functionality.

For all these reasons, remove DAX support.

Cc: Jens Axboe 
Cc: Matthew Wilcox 
Cc: Ross Zwisler 
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig 
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams

brd: remove unused brd_mutex

2017-11-11T02:55:57+00:00

Remove unused mutex brd_mutex. It is unused since the commit ff26956875c2
("brd: remove support for BLKFLSBUF").

Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka 
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe

brd: fix overflow in __brd_direct_access

2017-09-25T14:56:05+00:00

The code in __brd_direct_access multiplies the pgoff variable by page size
and divides it by 512. It can cause overflow on 32-bit architectures. The
overflow happens if we create ramdisk larger than 4G and use it as a
sparse device.

This patch replaces multiplication and division with multiplication by the
number of sectors per page.

Reviewed-by: Dan Williams 
Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka 
Fixes: 1647b9b959c7 ("brd: add dax_operations support")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org	# 4.12+
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe

Merge branch 'for-4.14/block' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block

2017-09-07T18:59:42+00:00

Pull block layer updates from Jens Axboe:
 "This is the first pull request for 4.14, containing most of the code
  changes. It's a quiet series this round, which I think we needed after
  the churn of the last few series. This contains:

   - Fix for a registration race in loop, from Anton Volkov.

   - Overflow complaint fix from Arnd for DAC960.

   - Series of drbd changes from the usual suspects.

   - Conversion of the stec/skd driver to blk-mq. From Bart.

   - A few BFQ improvements/fixes from Paolo.

   - CFQ improvement from Ritesh, allowing idling for group idle.

   - A few fixes found by Dan's smatch, courtesy of Dan.

   - A warning fixup for a race between changing the IO scheduler and
     device remova. From David Jeffery.

   - A few nbd fixes from Josef.

   - Support for cgroup info in blktrace, from Shaohua.

   - Also from Shaohua, new features in the null_blk driver to allow it
     to actually hold data, among other things.

   - Various corner cases and error handling fixes from Weiping Zhang.

   - Improvements to the IO stats tracking for blk-mq from me. Can
     drastically improve performance for fast devices and/or big
     machines.

   - Series from Christoph removing bi_bdev as being needed for IO
     submission, in preparation for nvme multipathing code.

   - Series from Bart, including various cleanups and fixes for switch
     fall through case complaints"

* 'for-4.14/block' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block: (162 commits)
  kernfs: checking for IS_ERR() instead of NULL
  drbd: remove BIOSET_NEED_RESCUER flag from drbd_{md_,}io_bio_set
  drbd: Fix allyesconfig build, fix recent commit
  drbd: switch from kmalloc() to kmalloc_array()
  drbd: abort drbd_start_resync if there is no connection
  drbd: move global variables to drbd namespace and make some static
  drbd: rename "usermode_helper" to "drbd_usermode_helper"
  drbd: fix race between handshake and admin disconnect/down
  drbd: fix potential deadlock when trying to detach during handshake
  drbd: A single dot should be put into a sequence.
  drbd: fix rmmod cleanup, remove _all_ debugfs entries
  drbd: Use setup_timer() instead of init_timer() to simplify the code.
  drbd: fix potential get_ldev/put_ldev refcount imbalance during attach
  drbd: new disk-option disable-write-same
  drbd: Fix resource role for newly created resources in events2
  drbd: mark symbols static where possible
  drbd: Send P_NEG_ACK upon write error in protocol != C
  drbd: add explicit plugging when submitting batches
  drbd: change list_for_each_safe to while(list_first_entry_or_null)
  drbd: introduce drbd_recv_header_maybe_unplug
  ...

block, THP: make block_device_operations.rw_page support THP

2017-09-07T00:27:27+00:00

The .rw_page in struct block_device_operations is used by the swap
subsystem to read/write the page contents from/into the corresponding
swap slot in the swap device.  To support the THP (Transparent Huge
Page) swap optimization, the .rw_page is enhanced to support to
read/write THP if possible.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170724051840.2309-6-ying.huang@intel.com
Signed-off-by: "Huang, Ying" 
Reviewed-by: Ross Zwisler  [for brd.c, zram_drv.c, pmem.c]
Cc: Johannes Weiner 
Cc: Minchan Kim 
Cc: Dan Williams 
Cc: Vishal L Verma 
Cc: Jens Axboe 
Cc: "Kirill A . Shutemov" 
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli 
Cc: Hugh Dickins 
Cc: Michal Hocko 
Cc: Rik van Riel 
Cc: Shaohua Li 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

block: replace bi_bdev with a gendisk pointer and partitions index

2017-08-23T18:49:55+00:00

This way we don't need a block_device structure to submit I/O.  The
block_device has different life time rules from the gendisk and
request_queue and is usually only available when the block device node
is open.  Other callers need to explicitly create one (e.g. the lightnvm
passthrough code, or the new nvme multipathing code).

For the actual I/O path all that we need is the gendisk, which exists
once per block device.  But given that the block layer also does
partition remapping we additionally need a partition index, which is
used for said remapping in generic_make_request.

Note that all the block drivers generally want request_queue or
sometimes the gendisk, so this removes a layer of indirection all
over the stack.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig 
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe

ARM: fix rd_size declaration

2017-07-10T23:32:34+00:00

The global variable 'rd_size' is declared as 'int' in source file
arch/arm/kernel/atags_parse.c and as 'unsigned long' in
drivers/block/brd.c.  Fix this inconsistency.

Additionally, remove the declarations of rd_image_start, rd_prompt and
rd_doload from parse_tag_ramdisk() since these duplicate existing
declarations in .

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170627065024.12347-1-bart.vanassche@wdc.com
Signed-off-by: Bart Van Assche 
Acked-by: Russell King 
Cc: Jens Axboe 
Cc: Jan Kara 
Cc: Jason Yan 
Cc: Zhaohongjiang 
Cc: Miao Xie 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

Merge tag 'libnvdimm-for-4.13' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/nvdimm/nvdimm

2017-07-07T16:44:06+00:00

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
6aa734a2f38e ("libnvdimm, region, pmem: fix 'badblocks'
sysfs_get_dirent() reference lifetime") was reviewed by Toshi Kani
"

* 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
...