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<title>linux-stable.git/include/linux/dax.h, branch v5.6.2</title>
<subtitle>Linux kernel stable tree</subtitle>
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<entry>
<title>dax: Get rid of fs_dax_get_by_host() helper</title>
<updated>2020-01-16T17:52:27+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Vivek Goyal</name>
<email>vgoyal@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2020-01-06T18:11:17+00:00</published>
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Looks like nobody is using fs_dax_get_by_host() except fs_dax_get_by_bdev()
and it can easily use dax_get_by_host() instead.

IIUC, fs_dax_get_by_host() was only introduced so that one could compile
with CONFIG_FS_DAX=n and CONFIG_DAX=m. fs_dax_get_by_bdev() achieves
the same purpose and hence it looks like fs_dax_get_by_host() is not
needed anymore.

Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal &lt;vgoyal@redhat.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200106181117.GA16248@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams &lt;dan.j.williams@intel.com&gt;
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Looks like nobody is using fs_dax_get_by_host() except fs_dax_get_by_bdev()
and it can easily use dax_get_by_host() instead.

IIUC, fs_dax_get_by_host() was only introduced so that one could compile
with CONFIG_FS_DAX=n and CONFIG_DAX=m. fs_dax_get_by_bdev() achieves
the same purpose and hence it looks like fs_dax_get_by_host() is not
needed anymore.

Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal &lt;vgoyal@redhat.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200106181117.GA16248@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams &lt;dan.j.williams@intel.com&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>dax: Pass dax_dev instead of bdev to dax_writeback_mapping_range()</title>
<updated>2020-01-03T19:13:12+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Vivek Goyal</name>
<email>vgoyal@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2020-01-03T18:33:07+00:00</published>
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As of now dax_writeback_mapping_range() takes "struct block_device" as a
parameter and dax_dev is searched from bdev name. This also involves taking
a fresh reference on dax_dev and putting that reference at the end of
function.

We are developing a new filesystem virtio-fs and using dax to access host
page cache directly. But there is no block device. IOW, we want to make
use of dax but want to get rid of this assumption that there is always
a block device associated with dax_dev.

So pass in "struct dax_device" as parameter instead of bdev.

ext2/ext4/xfs are current users and they already have a reference on
dax_device. So there is no need to take reference and drop reference to
dax_device on each call of this function.

Suggested-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@infradead.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal &lt;vgoyal@redhat.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200103183307.GB13350@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams &lt;dan.j.williams@intel.com&gt;
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As of now dax_writeback_mapping_range() takes "struct block_device" as a
parameter and dax_dev is searched from bdev name. This also involves taking
a fresh reference on dax_dev and putting that reference at the end of
function.

We are developing a new filesystem virtio-fs and using dax to access host
page cache directly. But there is no block device. IOW, we want to make
use of dax but want to get rid of this assumption that there is always
a block device associated with dax_dev.

So pass in "struct dax_device" as parameter instead of bdev.

ext2/ext4/xfs are current users and they already have a reference on
dax_device. So there is no need to take reference and drop reference to
dax_device on each call of this function.

Suggested-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@infradead.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal &lt;vgoyal@redhat.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200103183307.GB13350@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams &lt;dan.j.williams@intel.com&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>dax: check synchronous mapping is supported</title>
<updated>2019-07-05T22:19:10+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Pankaj Gupta</name>
<email>pagupta@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2019-07-05T14:03:26+00:00</published>
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This patch introduces 'daxdev_mapping_supported' helper
which checks if 'MAP_SYNC' is supported with filesystem
mapping. It also checks if corresponding dax_device is
synchronous. Virtio pmem device is asynchronous and
does not not support VM_SYNC.

Suggested-by: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
Signed-off-by: Pankaj Gupta &lt;pagupta@redhat.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams &lt;dan.j.williams@intel.com&gt;
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This patch introduces 'daxdev_mapping_supported' helper
which checks if 'MAP_SYNC' is supported with filesystem
mapping. It also checks if corresponding dax_device is
synchronous. Virtio pmem device is asynchronous and
does not not support VM_SYNC.

Suggested-by: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
Signed-off-by: Pankaj Gupta &lt;pagupta@redhat.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams &lt;dan.j.williams@intel.com&gt;
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>libnvdimm: add dax_dev sync flag</title>
<updated>2019-07-05T22:19:10+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Pankaj Gupta</name>
<email>pagupta@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2019-07-05T14:03:24+00:00</published>
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This patch adds 'DAXDEV_SYNC' flag which is set
for nd_region doing synchronous flush. This later
is used to disable MAP_SYNC functionality for
ext4 &amp; xfs filesystem for devices don't support
synchronous flush.

Signed-off-by: Pankaj Gupta &lt;pagupta@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams &lt;dan.j.williams@intel.com&gt;
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This patch adds 'DAXDEV_SYNC' flag which is set
for nd_region doing synchronous flush. This later
is used to disable MAP_SYNC functionality for
ext4 &amp; xfs filesystem for devices don't support
synchronous flush.

Signed-off-by: Pankaj Gupta &lt;pagupta@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams &lt;dan.j.williams@intel.com&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>dax: Arrange for dax_supported check to span multiple devices</title>
<updated>2019-05-20T22:02:08+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Dan Williams</name>
<email>dan.j.williams@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2019-05-16T20:26:29+00:00</published>
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Pankaj reports that starting with commit ad428cdb525a "dax: Check the
end of the block-device capacity with dax_direct_access()" device-mapper
no longer allows dax operation. This results from the stricter checks in
__bdev_dax_supported() that validate that the start and end of a
block-device map to the same 'pagemap' instance.

Teach the dax-core and device-mapper to validate the 'pagemap' on a
per-target basis. This is accomplished by refactoring the
bdev_dax_supported() internals into generic_fsdax_supported() which
takes a sector range to validate. Consequently generic_fsdax_supported()
is suitable to be used in a device-mapper -&gt;iterate_devices() callback.
A new -&gt;dax_supported() operation is added to allow composite devices to
split and route upper-level bdev_dax_supported() requests.

Fixes: ad428cdb525a ("dax: Check the end of the block-device...")
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Ira Weiny &lt;ira.weiny@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Dave Jiang &lt;dave.jiang@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Keith Busch &lt;keith.busch@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Matthew Wilcox &lt;willy@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Vishal Verma &lt;vishal.l.verma@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Heiko Carstens &lt;heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky &lt;schwidefsky@de.ibm.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
Reported-by: Pankaj Gupta &lt;pagupta@redhat.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Pankaj Gupta &lt;pagupta@redhat.com&gt;
Tested-by: Pankaj Gupta &lt;pagupta@redhat.com&gt;
Tested-by: Vaibhav Jain &lt;vaibhav@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Mike Snitzer &lt;snitzer@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams &lt;dan.j.williams@intel.com&gt;
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Pankaj reports that starting with commit ad428cdb525a "dax: Check the
end of the block-device capacity with dax_direct_access()" device-mapper
no longer allows dax operation. This results from the stricter checks in
__bdev_dax_supported() that validate that the start and end of a
block-device map to the same 'pagemap' instance.

Teach the dax-core and device-mapper to validate the 'pagemap' on a
per-target basis. This is accomplished by refactoring the
bdev_dax_supported() internals into generic_fsdax_supported() which
takes a sector range to validate. Consequently generic_fsdax_supported()
is suitable to be used in a device-mapper -&gt;iterate_devices() callback.
A new -&gt;dax_supported() operation is added to allow composite devices to
split and route upper-level bdev_dax_supported() requests.

Fixes: ad428cdb525a ("dax: Check the end of the block-device...")
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Ira Weiny &lt;ira.weiny@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Dave Jiang &lt;dave.jiang@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Keith Busch &lt;keith.busch@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Matthew Wilcox &lt;willy@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Vishal Verma &lt;vishal.l.verma@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Heiko Carstens &lt;heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky &lt;schwidefsky@de.ibm.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
Reported-by: Pankaj Gupta &lt;pagupta@redhat.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Pankaj Gupta &lt;pagupta@redhat.com&gt;
Tested-by: Pankaj Gupta &lt;pagupta@redhat.com&gt;
Tested-by: Vaibhav Jain &lt;vaibhav@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Mike Snitzer &lt;snitzer@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams &lt;dan.j.williams@intel.com&gt;
</pre>
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>dax: Fix unlock mismatch with updated API</title>
<updated>2018-12-05T05:32:00+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Matthew Wilcox</name>
<email>willy@infradead.org</email>
</author>
<published>2018-11-30T16:05:06+00:00</published>
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Internal to dax_unlock_mapping_entry(), dax_unlock_entry() is used to
store a replacement entry in the Xarray at the given xas-index with the
DAX_LOCKED bit clear. When called, dax_unlock_entry() expects the unlocked
value of the entry relative to the current Xarray state to be specified.

In most contexts dax_unlock_entry() is operating in the same scope as
the matched dax_lock_entry(). However, in the dax_unlock_mapping_entry()
case the implementation needs to recall the original entry. In the case
where the original entry is a 'pmd' entry it is possible that the pfn
performed to do the lookup is misaligned to the value retrieved in the
Xarray.

Change the api to return the unlock cookie from dax_lock_page() and pass
it to dax_unlock_page(). This fixes a bug where dax_unlock_page() was
assuming that the page was PMD-aligned if the entry was a PMD entry with
signatures like:

 WARNING: CPU: 38 PID: 1396 at fs/dax.c:340 dax_insert_entry+0x2b2/0x2d0
 RIP: 0010:dax_insert_entry+0x2b2/0x2d0
 [..]
 Call Trace:
  dax_iomap_pte_fault.isra.41+0x791/0xde0
  ext4_dax_huge_fault+0x16f/0x1f0
  ? up_read+0x1c/0xa0
  __do_fault+0x1f/0x160
  __handle_mm_fault+0x1033/0x1490
  handle_mm_fault+0x18b/0x3d0

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20181130154902.GL10377@bombadil.infradead.org
Fixes: 9f32d221301c ("dax: Convert dax_lock_mapping_entry to XArray")
Reported-by: Dan Williams &lt;dan.j.williams@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox &lt;willy@infradead.org&gt;
Tested-by: Dan Williams &lt;dan.j.williams@intel.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams &lt;dan.j.williams@intel.com&gt;
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Internal to dax_unlock_mapping_entry(), dax_unlock_entry() is used to
store a replacement entry in the Xarray at the given xas-index with the
DAX_LOCKED bit clear. When called, dax_unlock_entry() expects the unlocked
value of the entry relative to the current Xarray state to be specified.

In most contexts dax_unlock_entry() is operating in the same scope as
the matched dax_lock_entry(). However, in the dax_unlock_mapping_entry()
case the implementation needs to recall the original entry. In the case
where the original entry is a 'pmd' entry it is possible that the pfn
performed to do the lookup is misaligned to the value retrieved in the
Xarray.

Change the api to return the unlock cookie from dax_lock_page() and pass
it to dax_unlock_page(). This fixes a bug where dax_unlock_page() was
assuming that the page was PMD-aligned if the entry was a PMD entry with
signatures like:

 WARNING: CPU: 38 PID: 1396 at fs/dax.c:340 dax_insert_entry+0x2b2/0x2d0
 RIP: 0010:dax_insert_entry+0x2b2/0x2d0
 [..]
 Call Trace:
  dax_iomap_pte_fault.isra.41+0x791/0xde0
  ext4_dax_huge_fault+0x16f/0x1f0
  ? up_read+0x1c/0xa0
  __do_fault+0x1f/0x160
  __handle_mm_fault+0x1033/0x1490
  handle_mm_fault+0x18b/0x3d0

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20181130154902.GL10377@bombadil.infradead.org
Fixes: 9f32d221301c ("dax: Convert dax_lock_mapping_entry to XArray")
Reported-by: Dan Williams &lt;dan.j.williams@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox &lt;willy@infradead.org&gt;
Tested-by: Dan Williams &lt;dan.j.williams@intel.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams &lt;dan.j.williams@intel.com&gt;
</pre>
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>filesystem-dax: Introduce dax_lock_mapping_entry()</title>
<updated>2018-07-23T17:38:06+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Dan Williams</name>
<email>dan.j.williams@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-07-14T04:50:16+00:00</published>
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In preparation for implementing support for memory poison (media error)
handling via dax mappings, implement a lock_page() equivalent. Poison
error handling requires rmap and needs guarantees that the page-&gt;mapping
association is maintained / valid (inode not freed) for the duration of
the lookup.

In the device-dax case it is sufficient to simply hold a dev_pagemap
reference. In the filesystem-dax case we need to use the entry lock.

Export the entry lock via dax_lock_mapping_entry() that uses
rcu_read_lock() to protect against the inode being freed, and
revalidates the page-&gt;mapping association under xa_lock().

Cc: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Cc: Matthew Wilcox &lt;willy@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Ross Zwisler &lt;ross.zwisler@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams &lt;dan.j.williams@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Dave Jiang &lt;dave.jiang@intel.com&gt;
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In preparation for implementing support for memory poison (media error)
handling via dax mappings, implement a lock_page() equivalent. Poison
error handling requires rmap and needs guarantees that the page-&gt;mapping
association is maintained / valid (inode not freed) for the duration of
the lookup.

In the device-dax case it is sufficient to simply hold a dev_pagemap
reference. In the filesystem-dax case we need to use the entry lock.

Export the entry lock via dax_lock_mapping_entry() that uses
rcu_read_lock() to protect against the inode being freed, and
revalidates the page-&gt;mapping association under xa_lock().

Cc: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Cc: Matthew Wilcox &lt;willy@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Ross Zwisler &lt;ross.zwisler@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams &lt;dan.j.williams@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Dave Jiang &lt;dave.jiang@intel.com&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>include/linux/dax.h: dax_iomap_fault() returns vm_fault_t</title>
<updated>2018-06-28T18:16:44+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Souptick Joarder</name>
<email>jrdr.linux@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-06-28T06:26:17+00:00</published>
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Commit 1c8f422059ae ("mm: change return type to vm_fault_t") missed a
conversion.  It's not a big problem at present because mainline is still
using

	typedef int vm_fault_t;

Fixes: 1c8f422059ae ("mm: change return type to vm_fault_t")
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180620172046.GA27894@jordon-HP-15-Notebook-PC
Signed-off-by: Souptick Joarder &lt;jrdr.linux@gmail.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Matthew Wilcox &lt;willy@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Dan Williams &lt;dan.j.williams@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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Commit 1c8f422059ae ("mm: change return type to vm_fault_t") missed a
conversion.  It's not a big problem at present because mainline is still
using

	typedef int vm_fault_t;

Fixes: 1c8f422059ae ("mm: change return type to vm_fault_t")
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180620172046.GA27894@jordon-HP-15-Notebook-PC
Signed-off-by: Souptick Joarder &lt;jrdr.linux@gmail.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Matthew Wilcox &lt;willy@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Dan Williams &lt;dan.j.williams@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'libnvdimm-for-4.18' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/nvdimm/nvdimm</title>
<updated>2018-06-09T00:21:52+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2018-06-09T00:21:52+00:00</published>
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Pull libnvdimm updates from Dan Williams:
 "This adds a user for the new 'bytes-remaining' updates to
  memcpy_mcsafe() that you already received through Ingo via the
  x86-dax- for-linus pull.

  Not included here, but still targeting this cycle, is support for
  handling memory media errors (poison) consumed via userspace dax
  mappings.

  Summary:

   - DAX broke a fundamental assumption of truncate of file mapped
     pages. The truncate path assumed that it is safe to disconnect a
     pinned page from a file and let the filesystem reclaim the physical
     block. With DAX the page is equivalent to the filesystem block.
     Introduce dax_layout_busy_page() to enable filesystems to wait for
     pinned DAX pages to be released. Without this wait a filesystem
     could allocate blocks under active device-DMA to a new file.

   - DAX arranges for the block layer to be bypassed and uses
     dax_direct_access() + copy_to_iter() to satisfy read(2) calls.
     However, the memcpy_mcsafe() facility is available through the pmem
     block driver. In order to safely handle media errors, via the DAX
     block-layer bypass, introduce copy_to_iter_mcsafe().

   - Fix cache management policy relative to the ACPI NFIT Platform
     Capabilities Structure to properly elide cache flushes when they
     are not necessary. The table indicates whether CPU caches are
     power-fail protected. Clarify that a deep flush is always performed
     on REQ_{FUA,PREFLUSH} requests"

* tag 'libnvdimm-for-4.18' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/nvdimm/nvdimm: (21 commits)
  dax: Use dax_write_cache* helpers
  libnvdimm, pmem: Do not flush power-fail protected CPU caches
  libnvdimm, pmem: Unconditionally deep flush on *sync
  libnvdimm, pmem: Complete REQ_FLUSH =&gt; REQ_PREFLUSH
  acpi, nfit: Remove ecc_unit_size
  dax: dax_insert_mapping_entry always succeeds
  libnvdimm, e820: Register all pmem resources
  libnvdimm: Debug probe times
  linvdimm, pmem: Preserve read-only setting for pmem devices
  x86, nfit_test: Add unit test for memcpy_mcsafe()
  pmem: Switch to copy_to_iter_mcsafe()
  dax: Report bytes remaining in dax_iomap_actor()
  dax: Introduce a -&gt;copy_to_iter dax operation
  uio, lib: Fix CONFIG_ARCH_HAS_UACCESS_MCSAFE compilation
  xfs, dax: introduce xfs_break_dax_layouts()
  xfs: prepare xfs_break_layouts() for another layout type
  xfs: prepare xfs_break_layouts() to be called with XFS_MMAPLOCK_EXCL
  mm, fs, dax: handle layout changes to pinned dax mappings
  mm: fix __gup_device_huge vs unmap
  mm: introduce MEMORY_DEVICE_FS_DAX and CONFIG_DEV_PAGEMAP_OPS
  ...
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Pull libnvdimm updates from Dan Williams:
 "This adds a user for the new 'bytes-remaining' updates to
  memcpy_mcsafe() that you already received through Ingo via the
  x86-dax- for-linus pull.

  Not included here, but still targeting this cycle, is support for
  handling memory media errors (poison) consumed via userspace dax
  mappings.

  Summary:

   - DAX broke a fundamental assumption of truncate of file mapped
     pages. The truncate path assumed that it is safe to disconnect a
     pinned page from a file and let the filesystem reclaim the physical
     block. With DAX the page is equivalent to the filesystem block.
     Introduce dax_layout_busy_page() to enable filesystems to wait for
     pinned DAX pages to be released. Without this wait a filesystem
     could allocate blocks under active device-DMA to a new file.

   - DAX arranges for the block layer to be bypassed and uses
     dax_direct_access() + copy_to_iter() to satisfy read(2) calls.
     However, the memcpy_mcsafe() facility is available through the pmem
     block driver. In order to safely handle media errors, via the DAX
     block-layer bypass, introduce copy_to_iter_mcsafe().

   - Fix cache management policy relative to the ACPI NFIT Platform
     Capabilities Structure to properly elide cache flushes when they
     are not necessary. The table indicates whether CPU caches are
     power-fail protected. Clarify that a deep flush is always performed
     on REQ_{FUA,PREFLUSH} requests"

* tag 'libnvdimm-for-4.18' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/nvdimm/nvdimm: (21 commits)
  dax: Use dax_write_cache* helpers
  libnvdimm, pmem: Do not flush power-fail protected CPU caches
  libnvdimm, pmem: Unconditionally deep flush on *sync
  libnvdimm, pmem: Complete REQ_FLUSH =&gt; REQ_PREFLUSH
  acpi, nfit: Remove ecc_unit_size
  dax: dax_insert_mapping_entry always succeeds
  libnvdimm, e820: Register all pmem resources
  libnvdimm: Debug probe times
  linvdimm, pmem: Preserve read-only setting for pmem devices
  x86, nfit_test: Add unit test for memcpy_mcsafe()
  pmem: Switch to copy_to_iter_mcsafe()
  dax: Report bytes remaining in dax_iomap_actor()
  dax: Introduce a -&gt;copy_to_iter dax operation
  uio, lib: Fix CONFIG_ARCH_HAS_UACCESS_MCSAFE compilation
  xfs, dax: introduce xfs_break_dax_layouts()
  xfs: prepare xfs_break_layouts() for another layout type
  xfs: prepare xfs_break_layouts() to be called with XFS_MMAPLOCK_EXCL
  mm, fs, dax: handle layout changes to pinned dax mappings
  mm: fix __gup_device_huge vs unmap
  mm: introduce MEMORY_DEVICE_FS_DAX and CONFIG_DEV_PAGEMAP_OPS
  ...
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<title>Merge branch 'for-4.18/mcsafe' into libnvdimm-for-next</title>
<updated>2018-06-08T22:16:44+00:00</updated>
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<name>Dan Williams</name>
<email>dan.j.williams@intel.com</email>
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<published>2018-06-08T22:16:44+00:00</published>
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