talos-obmc-linux/drivers/dax, branch dev-4.13

dax: remove the pmem_dax_ops->flush abstraction

2017-10-05T07:47:24+00:00

commit c3ca015fab6df124c933b91902f3f2a3473f9da5 upstream. Commit abebfbe2f731 ("dm: add ->flush() dax operation support") is buggy. A DM device may be composed of multiple underlying devices and all of them need to be flushed. That commit just routes the flush request to the first device and ignores the other devices. It could be fixed by adding more complex logic to the device mapper. But there is only one implementation of the method pmem_dax_ops->flush - that is pmem_dax_flush() - and it calls arch_wb_cache_pmem(). Consequently, we don't need the pmem_dax_ops->flush abstraction at all, we can call arch_wb_cache_pmem() directly from dax_flush() because dax_dev->ops->flush can't ever reach anything different from arch_wb_cache_pmem(). It should be also pointed out that for some uses of persistent memory it is needed to flush only a very small amount of data (such as 1 cacheline), and it would be overkill if we go through that device mapper machinery for a single flushed cache line. Fix this by removing the pmem_dax_ops->flush abstraction and call arch_wb_cache_pmem() directly from dax_flush(). Also, remove the device mapper code that forwards the flushes. Fixes: abebfbe2f731 ("dm: add ->flush() dax operation support") Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka Reviewed-by: Dan Williams Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

Merge tag 'for-4.13/dm-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/device-mapper/linux-dm

2017-07-28T19:17:17+00:00

Pull device mapper fixes from Mike Snitzer: - a few DM integrity fixes that improve performance. One that address inefficiencies in the on-disk journal device layout. Another that makes use of the block layer's on-stack plugging when writing the journal. - a dm-bufio fix for the blk_status_t conversion that went in during the merge window. - a few DM raid fixes that address correctness when suspending the device and a validation fix for validation that occurs during device activation. - a couple DM zoned target fixes. Important one being the fix to not use GFP_KERNEL in the IO path due to concerns about deadlock in low-memory conditions (e.g. swap over a DM zoned device, etc). - a DM DAX device fix to make sure dm_dax_flush() is called if the underlying DAX device is operating as a write cache. * tag 'for-4.13/dm-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/device-mapper/linux-dm: dm, dax: Make sure dm_dax_flush() is called if device supports it dm verity fec: fix GFP flags used with mempool_alloc() dm zoned: use GFP_NOIO in I/O path dm zoned: remove test for impossible REQ_OP_FLUSH conditions dm raid: bump target version dm raid: avoid mddev->suspended access dm raid: fix activation check in validate_raid_redundancy() dm raid: remove WARN_ON() in raid10_md_layout_to_format() dm bufio: fix error code in dm_bufio_write_dirty_buffers() dm integrity: test for corrupted disk format during table load dm integrity: WARN_ON if variables representing journal usage get out of sync dm integrity: use plugging when writing the journal dm integrity: fix inefficient allocation of journal space

dm, dax: Make sure dm_dax_flush() is called if device supports it

2017-07-26T19:55:44+00:00

Currently dm_dax_flush() is not being called, even if underlying dax device supports write cache, because DAXDEV_WRITE_CACHE is not being propagated up to the DM dax device. If the underlying dax device supports write cache, set DAXDEV_WRITE_CACHE on the DM dax device. This will cause dm_dax_flush() to be called. Fixes: abebfbe2f7 ("dm: add ->flush() dax operation support") Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal Acked-by: Dan Williams Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer

device-dax: fix sysfs duplicate warnings

2017-07-19T00:49:14+00:00

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: 98a29c39dc68 ("libnvdimm, namespace: allow creation of multiple pmem...") Cc: Jeff Moyer Cc: Reported-by: Dariusz Dokupil Signed-off-by: Dan Williams

device-dax: fix 'passing zero to ERR_PTR()' warning

2017-07-17T18:43:58+00:00

Dan Carpenter reports: The patch 7b6be8444e0f: "dax: refactor dax-fs into a generic provider of 'struct dax_device' instances" from Apr 11, 2017, leads to the following static checker warning: drivers/dax/device.c:643 devm_create_dev_dax() warn: passing zero to 'ERR_PTR' Fix the case where we inadvertently leak 0 to ERR_PTR() by setting at every error case, and make it clear that 'count' is never 0. Reported-by: Dan Carpenter Signed-off-by: Dan Williams

Merge tag 'for-linus-v4.13-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jlayton/linux

2017-07-08T02:38:17+00:00

Pull Writeback error handling updates from Jeff Layton: "This pile represents the bulk of the writeback error handling fixes that I have for this cycle. Some of the earlier patches in this pile may look trivial but they are prerequisites for later patches in the series. The aim of this set is to improve how we track and report writeback errors to userland. Most applications that care about data integrity will periodically call fsync/fdatasync/msync to ensure that their writes have made it to the backing store. For a very long time, we have tracked writeback errors using two flags in the address_space: AS_EIO and AS_ENOSPC. Those flags are set when a writeback error occurs (via mapping_set_error) and are cleared as a side-effect of filemap_check_errors (as you noted yesterday). This model really sucks for userland. Only the first task to call fsync (or msync or fdatasync) will see the error. Any subsequent task calling fsync on a file will get back 0 (unless another writeback error occurs in the interim). If I have several tasks writing to a file and calling fsync to ensure that their writes got stored, then I need to have them coordinate with one another. That's difficult enough, but in a world of containerized setups that coordination may even not be possible. But wait...it gets worse! The calls to filemap_check_errors can be buried pretty far down in the call stack, and there are internal callers of filemap_write_and_wait and the like that also end up clearing those errors. Many of those callers ignore the error return from that function or return it to userland at nonsensical times (e.g. truncate() or stat()). If I get back -EIO on a truncate, there is no reason to think that it was because some previous writeback failed, and a subsequent fsync() will (incorrectly) return 0. This pile aims to do three things: 1) ensure that when a writeback error occurs that that error will be reported to userland on a subsequent fsync/fdatasync/msync call, regardless of what internal callers are doing 2) report writeback errors on all file descriptions that were open at the time that the error occurred. This is a user-visible change, but I think most applications are written to assume this behavior anyway. Those that aren't are unlikely to be hurt by it. 3) document what filesystems should do when there is a writeback error. Today, there is very little consistency between them, and a lot of cargo-cult copying. We need to make it very clear what filesystems should do in this situation. To achieve this, the set adds a new data type (errseq_t) and then builds new writeback error tracking infrastructure around that. Once all of that is in place, we change the filesystems to use the new infrastructure for reporting wb errors to userland. Note that this is just the initial foray into cleaning up this mess. There is a lot of work remaining here: 1) convert the rest of the filesystems in a similar fashion. Once the initial set is in, then I think most other fs' will be fairly simple to convert. Hopefully most of those can in via individual filesystem trees. 2) convert internal waiters on writeback to use errseq_t for detecting errors instead of relying on the AS_* flags. I have some draft patches for this for ext4, but they are not quite ready for prime time yet. This was a discussion topic this year at LSF/MM too. If you're interested in the gory details, LWN has some good articles about this: https://lwn.net/Articles/718734/ https://lwn.net/Articles/724307/" * tag 'for-linus-v4.13-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jlayton/linux: btrfs: minimal conversion to errseq_t writeback error reporting on fsync xfs: minimal conversion to errseq_t writeback error reporting ext4: use errseq_t based error handling for reporting data writeback errors fs: convert __generic_file_fsync to use errseq_t based reporting block: convert to errseq_t based writeback error tracking dax: set errors in mapping when writeback fails Documentation: flesh out the section in vfs.txt on storing and reporting writeback errors mm: set both AS_EIO/AS_ENOSPC and errseq_t in mapping_set_error fs: new infrastructure for writeback error handling and reporting lib: add errseq_t type and infrastructure for handling it mm: don't TestClearPageError in __filemap_fdatawait_range mm: clear AS_EIO/AS_ENOSPC when writeback initiation fails jbd2: don't clear and reset errors after waiting on writeback buffer: set errors in mapping at the time that the error occurs fs: check for writeback errors after syncing out buffers in generic_file_fsync buffer: use mapping_set_error instead of setting the flag mm: fix mapping_set_error call in me_pagecache_dirty

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 ...

fs: new infrastructure for writeback error handling and reporting

2017-07-06T11:02:25+00:00

Most filesystems currently use mapping_set_error and filemap_check_errors for setting and reporting/clearing writeback errors at the mapping level. filemap_check_errors is indirectly called from most of the filemap_fdatawait_* functions and from filemap_write_and_wait*. These functions are called from all sorts of contexts to wait on writeback to finish -- e.g. mostly in fsync, but also in truncate calls, getattr, etc. The non-fsync callers are problematic. We should be reporting writeback errors during fsync, but many places spread over the tree clear out errors before they can be properly reported, or report errors at nonsensical times. If I get -EIO on a stat() call, there is no reason for me to assume that it is because some previous writeback failed. The fact that it also clears out the error such that a subsequent fsync returns 0 is a bug, and a nasty one since that's potentially silent data corruption. This patch adds a small bit of new infrastructure for setting and reporting errors during address_space writeback. While the above was my original impetus for adding this, I think it's also the case that current fsync semantics are just problematic for userland. Most applications that call fsync do so to ensure that the data they wrote has hit the backing store. In the case where there are multiple writers to the file at the same time, this is really hard to determine. The first one to call fsync will see any stored error, and the rest get back 0. The processes with open fds may not be associated with one another in any way. They could even be in different containers, so ensuring coordination between all fsync callers is not really an option. One way to remedy this would be to track what file descriptor was used to dirty the file, but that's rather cumbersome and would likely be slow. However, there is a simpler way to improve the semantics here without incurring too much overhead. This set adds an errseq_t to struct address_space, and a corresponding one is added to struct file. Writeback errors are recorded in the mapping's errseq_t, and the one in struct file is used as the "since" value. This changes the semantics of the Linux fsync implementation such that applications can now use it to determine whether there were any writeback errors since fsync(fd) was last called (or since the file was opened in the case of fsync having never been called). Note that those writeback errors may have occurred when writing data that was dirtied via an entirely different fd, but that's the case now with the current mapping_set_error/filemap_check_error infrastructure. This will at least prevent you from getting a false report of success. The new behavior is still consistent with the POSIX spec, and is more reliable for application developers. This patch just adds some basic infrastructure for doing this, and ensures that the f_wb_err "cursor" is properly set when a file is opened. Later patches will change the existing code to use this new infrastructure for reporting errors at fsync time. Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton Reviewed-by: Jan Kara

libnvdimm, pmem, dax: export a cache control attribute

2017-06-29T16:29:50+00:00

The dax_flush() operation can be turned into a nop on platforms where firmware arranges for cpu caches to be flushed on a power-fail event. The ACPI 6.2 specification defines a mechanism for the platform to indicate this capability so the kernel can select the proper default. However, for other platforms, the administrator must toggle this setting manually. Given this flush setting is a dax-specific mechanism we advertise it through a 'dax' attribute group hanging off a host device. For example, a 'pmem0' block-device gets a 'dax' sysfs-subdirectory with a 'write_cache' attribute to control response to dax cache flush requests. This is similar to the 'queue/write_cache' attribute that appears under block devices. Cc: Jan Kara Cc: Jeff Moyer Cc: Matthew Wilcox Cc: Ross Zwisler Suggested-by: Christoph Hellwig Signed-off-by: Dan Williams

dax: convert to bitmask for flags

2017-06-29T16:29:49+00:00

In preparation for adding more flags, convert the existing flag to a bit-flag. Signed-off-by: Dan Williams