linux.git/fs/dax.c, branch v4.18

Merge tag 'libnvdimm-for-4.18' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/nvdimm/nvdimm

2018-06-09T00:21:52+00:00

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 => 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 ->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
  ...

Merge branch 'for-4.18/mcsafe' into libnvdimm-for-next

2018-06-08T22:16:44+00:00

fs/dax.c: use new return type vm_fault_t

2018-06-08T00:34:33+00:00

Use new return type vm_fault_t for fault handler.  For now, this is just
documenting that the function returns a VM_FAULT value rather than an
errno.  Once all instances are converted, vm_fault_t will become a
distinct type.

commit 1c8f422059ae ("mm: change return type to vm_fault_t")

There was an existing bug inside dax_load_hole() if vm_insert_mixed had
failed to allocate a page table, we'd return VM_FAULT_NOPAGE instead of
VM_FAULT_OOM.  With new vmf_insert_mixed() this issue is addressed.

vm_insert_mixed_mkwrite has inefficiency when it returns an error value,
driver has to convert it to vm_fault_t type.  With new
vmf_insert_mixed_mkwrite() this limitation will be addressed.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180510181121.GA15239@jordon-HP-15-Notebook-PC
Signed-off-by: Souptick Joarder 
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara 
Reviewed-by: Matthew Wilcox 
Reviewed-by: Ross Zwisler 
Cc: Alexander Viro 
Cc: Dan Williams 
Cc: Michal Hocko 
Cc: "Kirill A. Shutemov" 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

dax: dax_insert_mapping_entry always succeeds

2018-06-03T02:39:37+00:00

It does not return an error, so we don't need to check the return value
for IS_ERR().  Indeed, it is a bug to do so; with a sufficiently large
PFN, a legitimate DAX entry may be mistaken for an error return.

Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox 
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams

dax: Report bytes remaining in dax_iomap_actor()

2018-05-23T06:18:31+00:00

In preparation for protecting the dax read(2) path from media errors
with copy_to_iter_mcsafe() (via dax_copy_to_iter()), convert the
implementation to report the bytes successfully transferred.

Cc: 
Cc: Ingo Molnar 
Cc: Borislav Petkov 
Cc: Tony Luck 
Cc: Al Viro 
Cc: Thomas Gleixner 
Cc: Andy Lutomirski 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Andrew Morton 
Cc: Linus Torvalds 
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams

dax: Introduce a ->copy_to_iter dax operation

2018-05-23T06:18:31+00:00

Similar to the ->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 
Cc: Mike Snitzer 
Cc: Christoph Hellwig 
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams

mm, fs, dax: handle layout changes to pinned dax mappings

2018-05-22T14:19:08+00:00

Background:

get_user_pages() in the filesystem pins file backed memory pages for
access by devices performing dma. However, it only pins the memory pages
not the page-to-file offset association. If a file is truncated the
pages are mapped out of the file and dma may continue indefinitely into
a page that is owned by a device driver. This breaks coherency of the
file vs dma, but the assumption is that if userspace wants the
file-space truncated it does not matter what data is inbound from the
device, it is not relevant anymore. The only expectation is that dma can
safely continue while the filesystem reallocates the block(s).

Problem:

This expectation that dma can safely continue while the filesystem
changes the block map is broken by dax. With dax the target dma page
*is* the filesystem block. The model of leaving the page pinned for dma,
but truncating the file block out of the file, means that the filesytem
is free to reallocate a block under active dma to another file and now
the expected data-incoherency situation has turned into active
data-corruption.

Solution:

Defer all filesystem operations (fallocate(), truncate()) on a dax mode
file while any page/block in the file is under active dma. This solution
assumes that dma is transient. Cases where dma operations are known to
not be transient, like RDMA, have been explicitly disabled via
commits like 5f1d43de5416 "IB/core: disable memory registration of
filesystem-dax vmas".

The dax_layout_busy_page() routine is called by filesystems with a lock
held against mm faults (i_mmap_lock) to find pinned / busy dax pages.
The process of looking up a busy page invalidates all mappings
to trigger any subsequent get_user_pages() to block on i_mmap_lock.
The filesystem continues to call dax_layout_busy_page() until it finally
returns no more active pages. This approach assumes that the page
pinning is transient, if that assumption is violated the system would
have likely hung from the uncompleted I/O.

Cc: Jeff Moyer 
Cc: Dave Chinner 
Cc: Matthew Wilcox 
Cc: Alexander Viro 
Cc: "Darrick J. Wong" 
Cc: Ross Zwisler 
Cc: Dave Hansen 
Cc: Andrew Morton 
Reported-by: Christoph Hellwig 
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig 
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara 
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams

Merge branch 'mm-rst' into docs-next

2018-04-16T20:25:08+00:00

Mike Rapoport says:

  These patches convert files in Documentation/vm to ReST format, add an
  initial index and link it to the top level documentation.

  There are no contents changes in the documentation, except few spelling
  fixes. The relatively large diffstat stems from the indentation and
  paragraph wrapping changes.

  I've tried to keep the formatting as consistent as possible, but I could
  miss some places that needed markup and add some markup where it was not
  necessary.

[jc: significant conflicts in vm/hmm.rst]

docs/vm: rename documentation files to .rst

2018-04-16T20:18:15+00:00

Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport 
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet

page cache: use xa_lock

2018-04-11T17:28:39+00:00

Remove the address_space ->tree_lock and use the xa_lock newly added to
the radix_tree_root.  Rename the address_space ->page_tree to ->i_pages,
since we don't really care that it's a tree.

[willy@infradead.org: fix nds32, fs/dax.c]
  Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180406145415.GB20605@bombadil.infradead.orgLink: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180313132639.17387-9-willy@infradead.org
Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox 
Acked-by: Jeff Layton 
Cc: Darrick J. Wong 
Cc: Dave Chinner 
Cc: Ryusuke Konishi 
Cc: Will Deacon 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds