File systems call dax_break_mapping() prior to reallocating file
system blocks to ensure the page is not undergoing any DMA or other
accesses. Generally this is needed when a file is truncated to ensure
that if a block is reallocated nothing is writing to it. However
filesystems currently don't cal
per acks.
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> But I'm having difficulty determining how practical that is because the
> v3 series is almost a month old so my test merging was quite ugly.
>
> Perhaps you could prepare a new-doesn't-need-to-be-final version for
> people to look at and to aid with this head-scrat
DEVMAP PTEs are no longer required to support ZONE_DEVICE so remove
them.
Signed-off-by: Alistair Popple
Suggested-by: Chunyan Zhang
Reviewed-by: Björn Töpel
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arch/riscv/Kconfig| 1 -
arch/riscv/include/asm/pgtable-64.h | 20
arch/riscv/include/as
Now that DAX and all other reference counts to ZONE_DEVICE pages are
managed normally there is no need for the special devmap PTE/PMD/PUD
page table bits. So drop all references to these, freeing up a
software defined page table bit on architectures supporting it.
Signed-off-by: Alistair Popple
A
The devmap PTE special bit was used to detect mappings of FS DAX
pages. This tracking was required to ensure the generic mm did not
manipulate the page reference counts as FS DAX implemented it's own
reference counting scheme.
Now that FS DAX pages have their references counted the same way as
nor
Device DAX pages are currently not reference counted when mapped,
instead relying on the devmap PTE bit to ensure mapping code will not
get/put references. This requires special handling in various page
table walkers, particularly GUP, to manage references on the
underlying pgmap to ensure the page
Currently fs dax pages are considered free when the refcount drops to
one and their refcounts are not increased when mapped via PTEs or
decreased when unmapped. This requires special logic in mm paths to
detect that these pages should not be properly refcounted, and to
detect when the refcount drop
At present mlock skips ptes mapping ZONE_DEVICE pages. A future change
to remove pmd_devmap will allow pmd_trans_huge_lock() to return
ZONE_DEVICE folios so make sure we continue to skip those.
Signed-off-by: Alistair Popple
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mm/mlock.c | 2 ++
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
diff --git a/mm
The procfs mmu files such as smaps currently ignore device dax and fs
dax pages because these pages are considered special. To maintain
existing behaviour once these pages are treated as normal pages and
returned from vm_normal_page() add tests to explicitly skip them.
Signed-off-by: Alistair Popp
Longterm pinning of FS DAX pages should already be disallowed by
various pXX_devmap checks. However a future change will cause these
checks to be invalid for FS DAX pages so make
folio_is_longterm_pinnable() return false for FS DAX pages.
Signed-off-by: Alistair Popple
Reviewed-by: John Hubbard
Add helpers to determine if a page or folio is a device dax or fs dax
page or folio.
Signed-off-by: Alistair Popple
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include/linux/memremap.h | 22 ++
1 file changed, 22 insertions(+)
diff --git a/include/linux/memremap.h b/include/linux/memremap.h
index 0256a42..f2a8d13
Currently DAX folio/page reference counts are managed differently to
normal pages. To allow these to be managed the same as normal pages
introduce vmf_insert_folio_pmd. This will map the entire PMD-sized folio
and take references as it would for a normally mapped page.
This is distinct from the cu
Currently DAX folio/page reference counts are managed differently to
normal pages. To allow these to be managed the same as normal pages
introduce vmf_insert_folio_pud. This will map the entire PUD-sized folio
and take references as it would for a normally mapped page.
This is distinct from the cu
The rmap doesn't currently support adding a PUD mapping of a
folio. This patch adds support for entire PUD mappings of folios,
primarily to allow for more standard refcounting of device DAX
folios. Currently DAX is the only user of this and it doesn't require
support for partially mapped PUD-sized
In preparation for using insert_page() for DAX, enhance
insert_page_into_pte_locked() to handle establishing writable
mappings. Recall that DAX returns VM_FAULT_NOPAGE after installing a
PTE which bypasses the typical set_pte_range() in finish_fault.
Signed-off-by: Alistair Popple
Suggested-by:
Currently to map a DAX page the DAX driver calls vmf_insert_pfn. This
creates a special devmap PTE entry for the pfn but does not take a
reference on the underlying struct page for the mapping. This is
because DAX page refcounts are treated specially, as indicated by the
presence of a devmap entry.
Zone device pages are used to represent various type of device memory
managed by device drivers. Currently compound zone device pages are
not supported. This is because MEMORY_DEVICE_FS_DAX pages are the only
user of higher order zone device pages and have their own page
reference counting.
A futu
Currently ZONE_DEVICE page reference counts are initialised by core
memory management code in __init_zone_device_page() as part of the
memremap() call which driver modules make to obtain ZONE_DEVICE
pages. This initialises page refcounts to 1 before returning them to
the driver.
This was presumabl
PCI P2PDMA pages are not mapped with pXX_devmap PTEs therefore the
check in __gup_device_huge() is redundant. Remove it
Signed-off-by: Alistair Popple
Reviewed-by: Jason Gunthorpe
Reviewed-by: Dan Wiliams
Acked-by: David Hildenbrand
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mm/gup.c | 5 -
1 file changed, 5 deletions(-)
diff
PAGE_MAPPING_DAX_SHARED is the same as PAGE_MAPPING_ANON. This isn't
currently a problem because FS DAX pages are treated
specially. However a future change will make FS DAX pages more like
normal pages, so folio_test_anon() must not return true for a FS DAX
page.
We could explicitly test for a FS
Prior to any truncation operations file systems call
dax_break_mapping() to ensure pages in the range are not under going
DMA. Later DAX page-cache entries will be removed by
truncate_folio_batch_exceptionals() in the generic page-cache code.
However this makes it possible for folios to be removed
Prior to freeing a block file systems supporting FS DAX must check
that the associated pages are both unmapped from user-space and not
undergoing DMA or other access from eg. get_user_pages(). This is
achieved by unmapping the file range and scanning the FS DAX
page-cache to see if any pages within
A FS DAX page is considered idle when its refcount drops to one. This
is currently open-coded in all file systems supporting FS DAX. Move
the idle detection to a common function to make future changes easier.
Signed-off-by: Alistair Popple
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig
Re
Several functions internal to FS DAX use the following pattern when
trying to obtain an unlocked entry:
xas_for_each(&xas, entry, end_idx) {
if (dax_is_locked(entry))
entry = get_unlocked_entry(&xas, 0);
This is problematic because get_unlocked_entry() will get the next
pr
dax_layout_busy_page_range() is used by file systems to scan the DAX
page-cache to unmap mapping pages from user-space and to determine if
any pages in the given range are busy, either due to ongoing DMA or
other get_user_pages() usage.
Currently it checks to see the file mapping is mapped into us
FS DAX requires file systems to call into the DAX layout prior to
unlinking inodes to ensure there is no ongoing DMA or other remote
access to the direct mapped page. The fuse file system implements
fuse_dax_break_layouts() to do this which includes a comment
indicating that passing dmap_end == 0 l
Main updates since v3:
- Rebased onto next-20241216
- Fixed a bunch of build breakages reported by John Hubbard and the
kernel test robot due to various combinations of CONFIG options.
- Split the rmap changes into a separate patch as suggested by David H.
- Reworded the description for
On 11/23/24 03:42, Matthew Maurer wrote:
> Document where exported and imported symbols are kept, format options,
> and limitations.
>
> Signed-off-by: Matthew Maurer
> ---
> Documentation/kbuild/modules.rst | 20
> 1 file changed, 20 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/Document
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