7d3bf613e9
* 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.
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Merge tag 'libnvdimm-for-4.18' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/nvdimm/nvdimm
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
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