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<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>
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<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>
<author>
<name>Dan Williams</name>
<email>dan.j.williams@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-06-08T22:16:44+00:00</published>
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<title>Merge branch 'for-4.18/dax' into libnvdimm-for-next</title>
<updated>2018-06-08T22:16:40+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Dan Williams</name>
<email>dan.j.williams@intel.com</email>
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<published>2018-06-08T22:16:40+00:00</published>
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<title>Merge tag 'overflow-v4.18-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kees/linux</title>
<updated>2018-06-07T00:27:14+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2018-06-07T00:27:14+00:00</published>
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Pull overflow updates from Kees Cook:
 "This adds the new overflow checking helpers and adds them to the
  2-factor argument allocators. And this adds the saturating size
  helpers and does a treewide replacement for the struct_size() usage.
  Additionally this adds the overflow testing modules to make sure
  everything works.

  I'm still working on the treewide replacements for allocators with
  "simple" multiplied arguments:

     *alloc(a * b, ...) -&gt; *alloc_array(a, b, ...)

  and

     *zalloc(a * b, ...) -&gt; *calloc(a, b, ...)

  as well as the more complex cases, but that's separable from this
  portion of the series. I expect to have the rest sent before -rc1
  closes; there are a lot of messy cases to clean up.

  Summary:

   - Introduce arithmetic overflow test helper functions (Rasmus)

   - Use overflow helpers in 2-factor allocators (Kees, Rasmus)

   - Introduce overflow test module (Rasmus, Kees)

   - Introduce saturating size helper functions (Matthew, Kees)

   - Treewide use of struct_size() for allocators (Kees)"

* tag 'overflow-v4.18-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kees/linux:
  treewide: Use struct_size() for devm_kmalloc() and friends
  treewide: Use struct_size() for vmalloc()-family
  treewide: Use struct_size() for kmalloc()-family
  device: Use overflow helpers for devm_kmalloc()
  mm: Use overflow helpers in kvmalloc()
  mm: Use overflow helpers in kmalloc_array*()
  test_overflow: Add memory allocation overflow tests
  overflow.h: Add allocation size calculation helpers
  test_overflow: Report test failures
  test_overflow: macrofy some more, do more tests for free
  lib: add runtime test of check_*_overflow functions
  compiler.h: enable builtin overflow checkers and add fallback code
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Pull overflow updates from Kees Cook:
 "This adds the new overflow checking helpers and adds them to the
  2-factor argument allocators. And this adds the saturating size
  helpers and does a treewide replacement for the struct_size() usage.
  Additionally this adds the overflow testing modules to make sure
  everything works.

  I'm still working on the treewide replacements for allocators with
  "simple" multiplied arguments:

     *alloc(a * b, ...) -&gt; *alloc_array(a, b, ...)

  and

     *zalloc(a * b, ...) -&gt; *calloc(a, b, ...)

  as well as the more complex cases, but that's separable from this
  portion of the series. I expect to have the rest sent before -rc1
  closes; there are a lot of messy cases to clean up.

  Summary:

   - Introduce arithmetic overflow test helper functions (Rasmus)

   - Use overflow helpers in 2-factor allocators (Kees, Rasmus)

   - Introduce overflow test module (Rasmus, Kees)

   - Introduce saturating size helper functions (Matthew, Kees)

   - Treewide use of struct_size() for allocators (Kees)"

* tag 'overflow-v4.18-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kees/linux:
  treewide: Use struct_size() for devm_kmalloc() and friends
  treewide: Use struct_size() for vmalloc()-family
  treewide: Use struct_size() for kmalloc()-family
  device: Use overflow helpers for devm_kmalloc()
  mm: Use overflow helpers in kvmalloc()
  mm: Use overflow helpers in kmalloc_array*()
  test_overflow: Add memory allocation overflow tests
  overflow.h: Add allocation size calculation helpers
  test_overflow: Report test failures
  test_overflow: macrofy some more, do more tests for free
  lib: add runtime test of check_*_overflow functions
  compiler.h: enable builtin overflow checkers and add fallback code
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<title>treewide: Use struct_size() for kmalloc()-family</title>
<updated>2018-06-06T18:15:43+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Kees Cook</name>
<email>keescook@chromium.org</email>
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<published>2018-05-08T20:45:50+00:00</published>
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One of the more common cases of allocation size calculations is finding
the size of a structure that has a zero-sized array at the end, along
with memory for some number of elements for that array. For example:

struct foo {
    int stuff;
    void *entry[];
};

instance = kmalloc(sizeof(struct foo) + sizeof(void *) * count, GFP_KERNEL);

Instead of leaving these open-coded and prone to type mistakes, we can
now use the new struct_size() helper:

instance = kmalloc(struct_size(instance, entry, count), GFP_KERNEL);

This patch makes the changes for kmalloc()-family (and kvmalloc()-family)
uses. It was done via automatic conversion with manual review for the
"CHECKME" non-standard cases noted below, using the following Coccinelle
script:

// pkey_cache = kmalloc(sizeof *pkey_cache + tprops-&gt;pkey_tbl_len *
//                      sizeof *pkey_cache-&gt;table, GFP_KERNEL);
@@
identifier alloc =~ "kmalloc|kzalloc|kvmalloc|kvzalloc";
expression GFP;
identifier VAR, ELEMENT;
expression COUNT;
@@

- alloc(sizeof(*VAR) + COUNT * sizeof(*VAR-&gt;ELEMENT), GFP)
+ alloc(struct_size(VAR, ELEMENT, COUNT), GFP)

// mr = kzalloc(sizeof(*mr) + m * sizeof(mr-&gt;map[0]), GFP_KERNEL);
@@
identifier alloc =~ "kmalloc|kzalloc|kvmalloc|kvzalloc";
expression GFP;
identifier VAR, ELEMENT;
expression COUNT;
@@

- alloc(sizeof(*VAR) + COUNT * sizeof(VAR-&gt;ELEMENT[0]), GFP)
+ alloc(struct_size(VAR, ELEMENT, COUNT), GFP)

// Same pattern, but can't trivially locate the trailing element name,
// or variable name.
@@
identifier alloc =~ "kmalloc|kzalloc|kvmalloc|kvzalloc";
expression GFP;
expression SOMETHING, COUNT, ELEMENT;
@@

- alloc(sizeof(SOMETHING) + COUNT * sizeof(ELEMENT), GFP)
+ alloc(CHECKME_struct_size(&amp;SOMETHING, ELEMENT, COUNT), GFP)

Signed-off-by: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
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One of the more common cases of allocation size calculations is finding
the size of a structure that has a zero-sized array at the end, along
with memory for some number of elements for that array. For example:

struct foo {
    int stuff;
    void *entry[];
};

instance = kmalloc(sizeof(struct foo) + sizeof(void *) * count, GFP_KERNEL);

Instead of leaving these open-coded and prone to type mistakes, we can
now use the new struct_size() helper:

instance = kmalloc(struct_size(instance, entry, count), GFP_KERNEL);

This patch makes the changes for kmalloc()-family (and kvmalloc()-family)
uses. It was done via automatic conversion with manual review for the
"CHECKME" non-standard cases noted below, using the following Coccinelle
script:

// pkey_cache = kmalloc(sizeof *pkey_cache + tprops-&gt;pkey_tbl_len *
//                      sizeof *pkey_cache-&gt;table, GFP_KERNEL);
@@
identifier alloc =~ "kmalloc|kzalloc|kvmalloc|kvzalloc";
expression GFP;
identifier VAR, ELEMENT;
expression COUNT;
@@

- alloc(sizeof(*VAR) + COUNT * sizeof(*VAR-&gt;ELEMENT), GFP)
+ alloc(struct_size(VAR, ELEMENT, COUNT), GFP)

// mr = kzalloc(sizeof(*mr) + m * sizeof(mr-&gt;map[0]), GFP_KERNEL);
@@
identifier alloc =~ "kmalloc|kzalloc|kvmalloc|kvzalloc";
expression GFP;
identifier VAR, ELEMENT;
expression COUNT;
@@

- alloc(sizeof(*VAR) + COUNT * sizeof(VAR-&gt;ELEMENT[0]), GFP)
+ alloc(struct_size(VAR, ELEMENT, COUNT), GFP)

// Same pattern, but can't trivially locate the trailing element name,
// or variable name.
@@
identifier alloc =~ "kmalloc|kzalloc|kvmalloc|kvzalloc";
expression GFP;
expression SOMETHING, COUNT, ELEMENT;
@@

- alloc(sizeof(SOMETHING) + COUNT * sizeof(ELEMENT), GFP)
+ alloc(CHECKME_struct_size(&amp;SOMETHING, ELEMENT, COUNT), GFP)

Signed-off-by: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
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<title>dax: Use dax_write_cache* helpers</title>
<updated>2018-06-06T18:02:34+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Ross Zwisler</name>
<email>ross.zwisler@linux.intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-06-06T16:45:14+00:00</published>
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Use dax_write_cache() and dax_write_cache_enabled() instead of open coding
the bit operations.

Signed-off-by: Ross Zwisler &lt;ross.zwisler@linux.intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams &lt;dan.j.williams@intel.com&gt;
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Use dax_write_cache() and dax_write_cache_enabled() instead of open coding
the bit operations.

Signed-off-by: Ross Zwisler &lt;ross.zwisler@linux.intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams &lt;dan.j.williams@intel.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>dax: change bdev_dax_supported() to support boolean returns</title>
<updated>2018-05-31T15:58:34+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Dave Jiang</name>
<email>dave.jiang@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-05-30T20:03:46+00:00</published>
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The function return values are confusing with the way the function is
named. We expect a true or false return value but it actually returns
0/-errno.  This makes the code very confusing. Changing the return values
to return a bool where if DAX is supported then return true and no DAX
support returns false.

Signed-off-by: Dave Jiang &lt;dave.jiang@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ross Zwisler &lt;ross.zwisler@linux.intel.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Darrick J. Wong &lt;darrick.wong@oracle.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong &lt;darrick.wong@oracle.com&gt;
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The function return values are confusing with the way the function is
named. We expect a true or false return value but it actually returns
0/-errno.  This makes the code very confusing. Changing the return values
to return a bool where if DAX is supported then return true and no DAX
support returns false.

Signed-off-by: Dave Jiang &lt;dave.jiang@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ross Zwisler &lt;ross.zwisler@linux.intel.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Darrick J. Wong &lt;darrick.wong@oracle.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong &lt;darrick.wong@oracle.com&gt;
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<title>fs: allow per-device dax status checking for filesystems</title>
<updated>2018-05-31T15:58:33+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Darrick J. Wong</name>
<email>darrick.wong@oracle.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-05-30T20:03:45+00:00</published>
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Change bdev_dax_supported so it takes a bdev parameter.  This enables
multi-device filesystems like xfs to check that a dax device can work for
the particular filesystem.  Once that's in place, actually fix all the
parts of XFS where we need to be able to distinguish between datadev and
rtdev.

This patch fixes the problem where we screw up the dax support checking
in xfs if the datadev and rtdev have different dax capabilities.

Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong &lt;darrick.wong@oracle.com&gt;
[rez: Re-added __bdev_dax_supported() for !CONFIG_FS_DAX cases]
Signed-off-by: Ross Zwisler &lt;ross.zwisler@linux.intel.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Eric Sandeen &lt;sandeen@redhat.com&gt;
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Change bdev_dax_supported so it takes a bdev parameter.  This enables
multi-device filesystems like xfs to check that a dax device can work for
the particular filesystem.  Once that's in place, actually fix all the
parts of XFS where we need to be able to distinguish between datadev and
rtdev.

This patch fixes the problem where we screw up the dax support checking
in xfs if the datadev and rtdev have different dax capabilities.

Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong &lt;darrick.wong@oracle.com&gt;
[rez: Re-added __bdev_dax_supported() for !CONFIG_FS_DAX cases]
Signed-off-by: Ross Zwisler &lt;ross.zwisler@linux.intel.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Eric Sandeen &lt;sandeen@redhat.com&gt;
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<title>dax: Introduce a -&gt;copy_to_iter dax operation</title>
<updated>2018-05-23T06:18:31+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Dan Williams</name>
<email>dan.j.williams@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-05-02T13:46:33+00:00</published>
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Similar to the -&gt;copy_from_iter() operation, a platform may want to
deploy an architecture or device specific routine for handling reads
from a dax_device like /dev/pmemX. On x86 this routine will point to a
machine check safe version of copy_to_iter(). For now, add the plumbing
to device-mapper and the dax core.

Cc: Ross Zwisler &lt;ross.zwisler@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Mike Snitzer &lt;snitzer@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams &lt;dan.j.williams@intel.com&gt;
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Similar to the -&gt;copy_from_iter() operation, a platform may want to
deploy an architecture or device specific routine for handling reads
from a dax_device like /dev/pmemX. On x86 this routine will point to a
machine check safe version of copy_to_iter(). For now, add the plumbing
to device-mapper and the dax core.

Cc: Ross Zwisler &lt;ross.zwisler@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Mike Snitzer &lt;snitzer@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams &lt;dan.j.williams@intel.com&gt;
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<title>mm: introduce MEMORY_DEVICE_FS_DAX and CONFIG_DEV_PAGEMAP_OPS</title>
<updated>2018-05-22T13:59:39+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Dan Williams</name>
<email>dan.j.williams@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-05-16T18:46:08+00:00</published>
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In preparation for fixing dax-dma-vs-unmap issues, filesystems need to
be able to rely on the fact that they will get wakeups on dev_pagemap
page-idle events. Introduce MEMORY_DEVICE_FS_DAX and
generic_dax_page_free() as common indicator / infrastructure for dax
filesytems to require. With this change there are no users of the
MEMORY_DEVICE_HOST designation, so remove it.

The HMM sub-system extended dev_pagemap to arrange a callback when a
dev_pagemap managed page is freed. Since a dev_pagemap page is free /
idle when its reference count is 1 it requires an additional branch to
check the page-type at put_page() time. Given put_page() is a hot-path
we do not want to incur that check if HMM is not in use, so a static
branch is used to avoid that overhead when not necessary.

Now, the FS_DAX implementation wants to reuse this mechanism for
receiving dev_pagemap -&gt;page_free() callbacks. Rework the HMM-specific
static-key into a generic mechanism that either HMM or FS_DAX code paths
can enable.

For ARCH=um builds, and any other arch that lacks ZONE_DEVICE support,
care must be taken to compile out the DEV_PAGEMAP_OPS infrastructure.
However, we still need to support FS_DAX in the FS_DAX_LIMITED case
implemented by the s390/dcssblk driver.

Cc: Martin Schwidefsky &lt;schwidefsky@de.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Heiko Carstens &lt;heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Michal Hocko &lt;mhocko@suse.com&gt;
Reported-by: kbuild test robot &lt;lkp@intel.com&gt;
Reported-by: Thomas Meyer &lt;thomas@m3y3r.de&gt;
Reported-by: Dave Jiang &lt;dave.jiang@intel.com&gt;
Cc: "Jérôme Glisse" &lt;jglisse@redhat.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams &lt;dan.j.williams@intel.com&gt;
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In preparation for fixing dax-dma-vs-unmap issues, filesystems need to
be able to rely on the fact that they will get wakeups on dev_pagemap
page-idle events. Introduce MEMORY_DEVICE_FS_DAX and
generic_dax_page_free() as common indicator / infrastructure for dax
filesytems to require. With this change there are no users of the
MEMORY_DEVICE_HOST designation, so remove it.

The HMM sub-system extended dev_pagemap to arrange a callback when a
dev_pagemap managed page is freed. Since a dev_pagemap page is free /
idle when its reference count is 1 it requires an additional branch to
check the page-type at put_page() time. Given put_page() is a hot-path
we do not want to incur that check if HMM is not in use, so a static
branch is used to avoid that overhead when not necessary.

Now, the FS_DAX implementation wants to reuse this mechanism for
receiving dev_pagemap -&gt;page_free() callbacks. Rework the HMM-specific
static-key into a generic mechanism that either HMM or FS_DAX code paths
can enable.

For ARCH=um builds, and any other arch that lacks ZONE_DEVICE support,
care must be taken to compile out the DEV_PAGEMAP_OPS infrastructure.
However, we still need to support FS_DAX in the FS_DAX_LIMITED case
implemented by the s390/dcssblk driver.

Cc: Martin Schwidefsky &lt;schwidefsky@de.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Heiko Carstens &lt;heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Michal Hocko &lt;mhocko@suse.com&gt;
Reported-by: kbuild test robot &lt;lkp@intel.com&gt;
Reported-by: Thomas Meyer &lt;thomas@m3y3r.de&gt;
Reported-by: Dave Jiang &lt;dave.jiang@intel.com&gt;
Cc: "Jérôme Glisse" &lt;jglisse@redhat.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams &lt;dan.j.williams@intel.com&gt;
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