Pull mm updates from Andrew Morton:
"The usual shower of singleton fixes and minor series all over MM,
documented (hopefully adequately) in the respective changelogs.
Notable series include:
- Lucas Stach has provided some page-mapping cleanup/consolidation/
maintainability work in the series "mm/treewide: Remove pXd_huge()
API".
- In the series "Allow migrate on protnone reference with
MPOL_PREFERRED_MANY policy", Donet Tom has optimized mempolicy's
MPOL_PREFERRED_MANY mode, yielding almost doubled performance in
one test.
- In their series "Memory allocation profiling" Kent Overstreet and
Suren Baghdasaryan have contributed a means of determining (via
/proc/allocinfo) whereabouts in the kernel memory is being
allocated: number of calls and amount of memory.
- Matthew Wilcox has provided the series "Various significant MM
patches" which does a number of rather unrelated things, but in
largely similar code sites.
- In his series "mm: page_alloc: freelist migratetype hygiene"
Johannes Weiner has fixed the page allocator's handling of
migratetype requests, with resulting improvements in compaction
efficiency.
- In the series "make the hugetlb migration strategy consistent"
Baolin Wang has fixed a hugetlb migration issue, which should
improve hugetlb allocation reliability.
- Liu Shixin has hit an I/O meltdown caused by readahead in a
memory-tight memcg. Addressed in the series "Fix I/O high when
memory almost met memcg limit".
- In the series "mm/filemap: optimize folio adding and splitting"
Kairui Song has optimized pagecache insertion, yielding ~10%
performance improvement in one test.
- Baoquan He has cleaned up and consolidated the early zone
initialization code in the series "mm/mm_init.c: refactor
free_area_init_core()".
- Baoquan has also redone some MM initializatio code in the series
"mm/init: minor clean up and improvement".
- MM helper cleanups from Christoph Hellwig in his series "remove
follow_pfn".
- More cleanups from Matthew Wilcox in the series "Various
page->flags cleanups".
- Vlastimil Babka has contributed maintainability improvements in the
series "memcg_kmem hooks refactoring".
- More folio conversions and cleanups in Matthew Wilcox's series:
"Convert huge_zero_page to huge_zero_folio"
"khugepaged folio conversions"
"Remove page_idle and page_young wrappers"
"Use folio APIs in procfs"
"Clean up __folio_put()"
"Some cleanups for memory-failure"
"Remove page_mapping()"
"More folio compat code removal"
- David Hildenbrand chipped in with "fs/proc/task_mmu: convert
hugetlb functions to work on folis".
- Code consolidation and cleanup work related to GUP's handling of
hugetlbs in Peter Xu's series "mm/gup: Unify hugetlb, part 2".
- Rick Edgecombe has developed some fixes to stack guard gaps in the
series "Cover a guard gap corner case".
- Jinjiang Tu has fixed KSM's behaviour after a fork+exec in the
series "mm/ksm: fix ksm exec support for prctl".
- Baolin Wang has implemented NUMA balancing for multi-size THPs.
This is a simple first-cut implementation for now. The series is
"support multi-size THP numa balancing".
- Cleanups to vma handling helper functions from Matthew Wilcox in
the series "Unify vma_address and vma_pgoff_address".
- Some selftests maintenance work from Dev Jain in the series
"selftests/mm: mremap_test: Optimizations and style fixes".
- Improvements to the swapping of multi-size THPs from Ryan Roberts
in the series "Swap-out mTHP without splitting".
- Kefeng Wang has significantly optimized the handling of arm64's
permission page faults in the series
"arch/mm/fault: accelerate pagefault when badaccess"
"mm: remove arch's private VM_FAULT_BADMAP/BADACCESS"
- GUP cleanups from David Hildenbrand in "mm/gup: consistently call
it GUP-fast".
- hugetlb fault code cleanups from Vishal Moola in "Hugetlb fault
path to use struct vm_fault".
- selftests build fixes from John Hubbard in the series "Fix
selftests/mm build without requiring "make headers"".
- Memory tiering fixes/improvements from Ho-Ren (Jack) Chuang in the
series "Improved Memory Tier Creation for CPUless NUMA Nodes".
Fixes the initialization code so that migration between different
memory types works as intended.
- David Hildenbrand has improved follow_pte() and fixed an errant
driver in the series "mm: follow_pte() improvements and acrn
follow_pte() fixes".
- David also did some cleanup work on large folio mapcounts in his
series "mm: mapcount for large folios + page_mapcount() cleanups".
- Folio conversions in KSM in Alex Shi's series "transfer page to
folio in KSM".
- Barry Song has added some sysfs stats for monitoring multi-size
THP's in the series "mm: add per-order mTHP alloc and swpout
counters".
- Some zswap cleanups from Yosry Ahmed in the series "zswap
same-filled and limit checking cleanups".
- Matthew Wilcox has been looking at buffer_head code and found the
documentation to be lacking. The series is "Improve buffer head
documentation".
- Multi-size THPs get more work, this time from Lance Yang. His
series "mm/madvise: enhance lazyfreeing with mTHP in madvise_free"
optimizes the freeing of these things.
- Kemeng Shi has added more userspace-visible writeback
instrumentation in the series "Improve visibility of writeback".
- Kemeng Shi then sent some maintenance work on top in the series
"Fix and cleanups to page-writeback".
- Matthew Wilcox reduces mmap_lock traffic in the anon vma code in
the series "Improve anon_vma scalability for anon VMAs". Intel's
test bot reported an improbable 3x improvement in one test.
- SeongJae Park adds some DAMON feature work in the series
"mm/damon: add a DAMOS filter type for page granularity access recheck"
"selftests/damon: add DAMOS quota goal test"
- Also some maintenance work in the series
"mm/damon/paddr: simplify page level access re-check for pageout"
"mm/damon: misc fixes and improvements"
- David Hildenbrand has disabled some known-to-fail selftests ni the
series "selftests: mm: cow: flag vmsplice() hugetlb tests as
XFAIL".
- memcg metadata storage optimizations from Shakeel Butt in "memcg:
reduce memory consumption by memcg stats".
- DAX fixes and maintenance work from Vishal Verma in the series
"dax/bus.c: Fixups for dax-bus locking""
* tag 'mm-stable-2024-05-17-19-19' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (426 commits)
memcg, oom: cleanup unused memcg_oom_gfp_mask and memcg_oom_order
selftests/mm: hugetlb_madv_vs_map: avoid test skipping by querying hugepage size at runtime
mm/hugetlb: add missing VM_FAULT_SET_HINDEX in hugetlb_wp
mm/hugetlb: add missing VM_FAULT_SET_HINDEX in hugetlb_fault
selftests: cgroup: add tests to verify the zswap writeback path
mm: memcg: make alloc_mem_cgroup_per_node_info() return bool
mm/damon/core: fix return value from damos_wmark_metric_value
mm: do not update memcg stats for NR_{FILE/SHMEM}_PMDMAPPED
selftests: cgroup: remove redundant enabling of memory controller
Docs/mm/damon/maintainer-profile: allow posting patches based on damon/next tree
Docs/mm/damon/maintainer-profile: change the maintainer's timezone from PST to PT
Docs/mm/damon/design: use a list for supported filters
Docs/admin-guide/mm/damon/usage: fix wrong schemes effective quota update command
Docs/admin-guide/mm/damon/usage: fix wrong example of DAMOS filter matching sysfs file
selftests/damon: classify tests for functionalities and regressions
selftests/damon/_damon_sysfs: use 'is' instead of '==' for 'None'
selftests/damon/_damon_sysfs: find sysfs mount point from /proc/mounts
selftests/damon/_damon_sysfs: check errors from nr_schemes file reads
mm/damon/core: initialize ->esz_bp from damos_quota_init_priv()
selftests/damon: add a test for DAMOS quota goal
...
Commit c05ae9d85b ("dax/bus.c: replace driver-core lock usage by a local
rwsem") aimed to undo device_lock() abuses for protecting changes to
dax-driver internal data-structures like the dax_region resource tree to
device-dax-instance range structures. However, the device_lock() was
legitimately enforcing that devices to be deleted were not current
actively attached to any driver nor assigned any capacity from the region.
As a result of the device_lock restoration in delete_store(), the
conditional locking in unregister_dev_dax() and unregister_dax_mapping()
can be removed.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240430-vv-dax_abi_fixes-v3-2-e3dcd755774c@intel.com
Fixes: c05ae9d85b ("dax/bus.c: replace driver-core lock usage by a local rwsem")
Signed-off-by: Vishal Verma <vishal.l.verma@intel.com>
Reported-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Cc: Alison Schofield <alison.schofield@intel.com>
Cc: Dave Jiang <dave.jiang@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Pull libnvdimm updates from Dave Jiang:
- ACPI_NFIT Kconfig documetation fix
- Make nvdimm_bus_type const
- Make dax_bus_type const
- remove SLAB_MEM_SPREAD flag usage in DAX
* tag 'libnvdimm-for-6.9' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/nvdimm/nvdimm:
dax: remove SLAB_MEM_SPREAD flag usage
device-dax: make dax_bus_type const
nvdimm: make nvdimm_bus_type const
libnvdimm: Fix ACPI_NFIT in BLK_DEV_PMEM help
A CONFIG_DEBUG_KOBJECT_RELEASE test of removing a device-dax region
provider (like modprobe -r dax_hmem) yields:
kobject: 'mapping0' (ffff93eb460e8800): kobject_release, parent 0000000000000000 (delayed 2000)
[..]
DEBUG_LOCKS_WARN_ON(1)
WARNING: CPU: 23 PID: 282 at kernel/locking/lockdep.c:232 __lock_acquire+0x9fc/0x2260
[..]
RIP: 0010:__lock_acquire+0x9fc/0x2260
[..]
Call Trace:
<TASK>
[..]
lock_acquire+0xd4/0x2c0
? ida_free+0x62/0x130
_raw_spin_lock_irqsave+0x47/0x70
? ida_free+0x62/0x130
ida_free+0x62/0x130
dax_mapping_release+0x1f/0x30
device_release+0x36/0x90
kobject_delayed_cleanup+0x46/0x150
Due to attempting ida_free() on an ida object that has already been
freed. Devices typically only hold a reference on their parent while
registered. If a child needs a parent object to complete its release it
needs to hold a reference that it drops from its release callback.
Arrange for a dax_mapping to pin its parent dev_dax instance until
dax_mapping_release().
Fixes: 0b07ce872a ("device-dax: introduce 'mapping' devices")
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/168577283412.1672036.16111545266174261446.stgit@dwillia2-xfh.jf.intel.com
Reviewed-by: Dave Jiang <dave.jiang@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Fan Ni <fan.ni@samsung.com>
Reviewed-by: Ira Weiny <ira.weiny@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Vishal Verma <vishal.l.verma@intel.com>
Pull Compute Express Link (CXL) updates from Dan Williams:
"To date Linux has been dependent on platform-firmware to map CXL RAM
regions and handle events / errors from devices. With this update we
can now parse / update the CXL memory layout, and report events /
errors from devices. This is a precursor for the CXL subsystem to
handle the end-to-end "RAS" flow for CXL memory. i.e. the flow that
for DDR-attached-DRAM is handled by the EDAC driver where it maps
system physical address events to a field-replaceable-unit (FRU /
endpoint device). In general, CXL has the potential to standardize
what has historically been a pile of memory-controller-specific error
handling logic.
Another change of note is the default policy for handling RAM-backed
device-dax instances. Previously the default access mode was "device",
mmap(2) a device special file to access memory. The new default is
"kmem" where the address range is assigned to the core-mm via
add_memory_driver_managed(). This saves typical users from wondering
why their platform memory is not visible via free(1) and stuck behind
a device-file. At the same time it allows expert users to deploy
policy to, for example, get dedicated access to high performance
memory, or hide low performance memory from general purpose kernel
allocations. This affects not only CXL, but also systems with
high-bandwidth-memory that platform-firmware tags with the
EFI_MEMORY_SP (special purpose) designation.
Summary:
- CXL RAM region enumeration: instantiate 'struct cxl_region' objects
for platform firmware created memory regions
- CXL RAM region provisioning: complement the existing PMEM region
creation support with RAM region support
- "Soft Reservation" policy change: Online (memory hot-add)
soft-reserved memory (EFI_MEMORY_SP) by default, but still allow
for setting aside such memory for dedicated access via device-dax.
- CXL Events and Interrupts: Takeover CXL event handling from
platform-firmware (ACPI calls this CXL Memory Error Reporting) and
export CXL Events via Linux Trace Events.
- Convey CXL _OSC results to drivers: Similar to PCI, let the CXL
subsystem interrogate the result of CXL _OSC negotiation.
- Emulate CXL DVSEC Range Registers as "decoders": Allow for
first-generation devices that pre-date the definition of the CXL
HDM Decoder Capability to translate the CXL DVSEC Range Registers
into 'struct cxl_decoder' objects.
- Set timestamp: Per spec, set the device timestamp in case of
hotplug, or if platform-firwmare failed to set it.
- General fixups: linux-next build issues, non-urgent fixes for
pre-production hardware, unit test fixes, spelling and debug
message improvements"
* tag 'cxl-for-6.3' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/cxl/cxl: (66 commits)
dax/kmem: Fix leak of memory-hotplug resources
cxl/mem: Add kdoc param for event log driver state
cxl/trace: Add serial number to trace points
cxl/trace: Add host output to trace points
cxl/trace: Standardize device information output
cxl/pci: Remove locked check for dvsec_range_allowed()
cxl/hdm: Add emulation when HDM decoders are not committed
cxl/hdm: Create emulated cxl_hdm for devices that do not have HDM decoders
cxl/hdm: Emulate HDM decoder from DVSEC range registers
cxl/pci: Refactor cxl_hdm_decode_init()
cxl/port: Export cxl_dvsec_rr_decode() to cxl_port
cxl/pci: Break out range register decoding from cxl_hdm_decode_init()
cxl: add RAS status unmasking for CXL
cxl: remove unnecessary calling of pci_enable_pcie_error_reporting()
dax/hmem: build hmem device support as module if possible
dax: cxl: add CXL_REGION dependency
cxl: avoid returning uninitialized error code
cxl/pmem: Fix nvdimm registration races
cxl/mem: Fix UAPI command comment
cxl/uapi: Tag commands from cxl_query_cmd()
...
While experimenting with CXL region removal the following corruption of
/proc/iomem appeared.
Before:
f010000000-f04fffffff : CXL Window 0
f010000000-f02fffffff : region4
f010000000-f02fffffff : dax4.0
f010000000-f02fffffff : System RAM (kmem)
After (modprobe -r cxl_test):
f010000000-f02fffffff : **redacted binary garbage**
f010000000-f02fffffff : System RAM (kmem)
...and testing further the same is visible with persistent memory
assigned to kmem:
Before:
480000000-243fffffff : Persistent Memory
480000000-57e1fffff : namespace3.0
580000000-243fffffff : dax3.0
580000000-243fffffff : System RAM (kmem)
After (ndctl disable-region all):
480000000-243fffffff : Persistent Memory
580000000-243fffffff : ***redacted binary garbage***
580000000-243fffffff : System RAM (kmem)
The corrupted data is from a use-after-free of the "dax4.0" and "dax3.0"
resources, and it also shows that the "System RAM (kmem)" resource is
not being removed. The bug does not appear after "modprobe -r kmem", it
requires the parent of "dax4.0" and "dax3.0" to be removed which
re-parents the leaked "System RAM (kmem)" instances. Those in turn
reference the freed resource as a parent.
First up for the fix is release_mem_region_adjustable() needs to
reliably delete the resource inserted by add_memory_driver_managed().
That is thwarted by a check for IORESOURCE_SYSRAM that predates the
dax/kmem driver, from commit:
65c7878413 ("kernel, resource: check for IORESOURCE_SYSRAM in release_mem_region_adjustable")
That appears to be working around the behavior of HMM's
"MEMORY_DEVICE_PUBLIC" facility that has since been deleted. With that
check removed the "System RAM (kmem)" resource gets removed, but
corruption still occurs occasionally because the "dax" resource is not
reliably removed.
The dax range information is freed before the device is unregistered, so
the driver can not reliably recall (another use after free) what it is
meant to release. Lastly if that use after free got lucky, the driver
was covering up the leak of "System RAM (kmem)" due to its use of
release_resource() which detaches, but does not free, child resources.
The switch to remove_resource() forces remove_memory() to be responsible
for the deletion of the resource added by add_memory_driver_managed().
Fixes: c2f3011ee6 ("device-dax: add an allocation interface for device-dax instances")
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: Oscar Salvador <osalvador@suse.de>
Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Cc: Pavel Tatashin <pasha.tatashin@soleen.com>
Reviewed-by: Vishal Verma <vishal.l.verma@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Pasha Tatashin <pasha.tatashin@soleen.com>
Reviewed-by: Dave Jiang <dave.jiang@intel.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/167653656244.3147810.5705900882794040229.stgit@dwillia2-xfh.jf.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
The default mode for device-dax instances is backwards for RAM-regions
as evidenced by the fact that it tends to catch end users by surprise.
"Where is my memory?". Recall that platforms are increasingly shipping
with performance-differentiated memory pools beyond typical DRAM and
NUMA effects. This includes HBM (high-bandwidth-memory) and CXL (dynamic
interleave, varied media types, and future fabric attached
possibilities).
For this reason the EFI_MEMORY_SP (EFI Special Purpose Memory => Linux
'Soft Reserved') attribute is expected to be applied to all memory-pools
that are not the general purpose pool. This designation gives an
Operating System a chance to defer usage of a memory pool until later in
the boot process where its performance properties can be interrogated
and administrator policy can be applied.
'Soft Reserved' memory can be anything from too limited and precious to
be part of the general purpose pool (HBM), too slow to host hot kernel
data structures (some PMEM media), or anything in between. However, in
the absence of an explicit policy, the memory should at least be made
usable by default. The current device-dax default hides all
non-general-purpose memory behind a device interface.
The expectation is that the distribution of users that want the memory
online by default vs device-dedicated-access by default follows the
Pareto principle. A small number of enlightened users may want to do
userspace memory management through a device, but general users just
want the kernel to make the memory available with an option to get more
advanced later.
Arrange for all device-dax instances not backed by PMEM to default to
attaching to the dax_kmem driver. From there the baseline memory hotplug
policy (CONFIG_MEMORY_HOTPLUG_DEFAULT_ONLINE / memhp_default_state=)
gates whether the memory comes online or stays offline. Where, if it
stays offline, it can be reliably converted back to device-mode where it
can be partitioned, or fronted by a userspace allocator.
So, if someone wants device-dax instances for their 'Soft Reserved'
memory:
1/ Build a kernel with CONFIG_MEMORY_HOTPLUG_DEFAULT_ONLINE=n or boot
with memhp_default_state=offline, or roll the dice and hope that the
kernel has not pinned a page in that memory before step 2.
2/ Write a udev rule to convert the target dax device(s) from
'system-ram' mode to 'devdax' mode:
daxctl reconfigure-device $dax -m devdax -f
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Gregory Price <gregory.price@memverge.com>
Tested-by: Fan Ni <fan.ni@samsung.com>
Reviewed-by: Dave Jiang <dave.jiang@intel.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/167602003336.1924368.6809503401422267885.stgit@dwillia2-xfh.jf.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Merge misc updates from Andrew Morton:
"146 patches.
Subsystems affected by this patch series: kthread, ia64, scripts,
ntfs, squashfs, ocfs2, vfs, and mm (slab-generic, slab, kmemleak,
dax, kasan, debug, pagecache, gup, shmem, frontswap, memremap,
memcg, selftests, pagemap, dma, vmalloc, memory-failure, hugetlb,
userfaultfd, vmscan, mempolicy, oom-kill, hugetlbfs, migration, thp,
ksm, page-poison, percpu, rmap, zswap, zram, cleanups, hmm, and
damon)"
* emailed patches from Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>: (146 commits)
mm/damon: hide kernel pointer from tracepoint event
mm/damon/vaddr: hide kernel pointer from damon_va_three_regions() failure log
mm/damon/vaddr: use pr_debug() for damon_va_three_regions() failure logging
mm/damon/dbgfs: remove an unnecessary variable
mm/damon: move the implementation of damon_insert_region to damon.h
mm/damon: add access checking for hugetlb pages
Docs/admin-guide/mm/damon/usage: update for schemes statistics
mm/damon/dbgfs: support all DAMOS stats
Docs/admin-guide/mm/damon/reclaim: document statistics parameters
mm/damon/reclaim: provide reclamation statistics
mm/damon/schemes: account how many times quota limit has exceeded
mm/damon/schemes: account scheme actions that successfully applied
mm/damon: remove a mistakenly added comment for a future feature
Docs/admin-guide/mm/damon/usage: update for kdamond_pid and (mk|rm)_contexts
Docs/admin-guide/mm/damon/usage: mention tracepoint at the beginning
Docs/admin-guide/mm/damon/usage: remove redundant information
Docs/admin-guide/mm/damon/usage: update for scheme quotas and watermarks
mm/damon: convert macro functions to static inline functions
mm/damon: modify damon_rand() macro to static inline function
mm/damon: move damon_rand() definition into damon.h
...
Right now, only static dax regions have a valid @pgmap pointer in its
struct dev_dax. Dynamic dax case however, do not.
In preparation for device-dax compound devmap support, make sure that
dev_dax pgmap field is set after it has been allocated and initialized.
dynamic dax device have the @pgmap is allocated at probe() and it's
managed by devm (contrast to static dax region which a pgmap is provided
and dax core kfrees it). So in addition to ensure a valid @pgmap, clear
the pgmap when the dynamic dax device is released to avoid the same
pgmap ranges to be re-requested across multiple region device reconfigs.
Add a static_dev_dax() and use that helper in dev_dax_probe() to ensure
the initialization differences between dynamic and static regions are
more explicit. While at it, consolidate the ranges initialization when
we allocate the @pgmap for the dynamic dax region case. Also take the
opportunity to document the differences between static and dynamic da
regions.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20211202204422.26777-8-joao.m.martins@oracle.com
Suggested-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Joao Martins <joao.m.martins@oracle.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: Dave Jiang <dave.jiang@intel.com>
Cc: Jane Chu <jane.chu@oracle.com>
Cc: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@nvidia.com>
Cc: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@ziepe.ca>
Cc: John Hubbard <jhubbard@nvidia.com>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@oracle.com>
Cc: Muchun Song <songmuchun@bytedance.com>
Cc: Naoya Horiguchi <naoya.horiguchi@nec.com>
Cc: Vishal Verma <vishal.l.verma@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
These methods indirect the actual DAX read/write path. In the end pmem
uses magic flush and mc safe variants and fuse and dcssblk use plain ones
while device mapper picks redirects to the underlying device.
Add set_dax_nocache() and set_dax_nomc() APIs to control which copy
routines are used to remove indirect call from the read/write fast path
as well as a lot of boilerplate code.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com> [virtiofs]
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20211215084508.435401-5-hch@lst.de
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
The /sys/class/dax compatibility option has shipped in the kernel for 4
years now which should be sufficient time for tools to abandon the old
ABI in favor of the /sys/bus/dax device-model. Delete it now and see if
anyone screams.
Since this compatibility option shipped there has been more reports of
users being surprised by the compat ABI than surprised by the "new", so
the compat infrastructure has outlived its usefulness. Recall that
/sys/bus/dax device-model is required for the dax kmem driver which
allows PMEM to be used as "System RAM".
The following projects were known to have a dependency on /sys/class/dax
and have dropped their dependency as of the listed version:
- ndctl (including libndctl, daxctl, and libdaxctl): v64+
- fio: v3.13+
- pmdk: v1.5.2+
As further evidence this option is no longer needed some distributions
have already stopped enabling CONFIG_DEV_DAX_PMEM_COMPAT.
Cc: Ira Weiny <ira.weiny@intel.com>
Cc: Dave Jiang <dave.jiang@intel.com>
Reported-by: Vishal Verma <vishal.l.verma@intel.com>
Acked-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Jane Chu <jane.chu@oracle.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/163701116195.3784476.726128179293466337.stgit@dwillia2-desk3.amr.corp.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
gcc warns about an empty body in an else statement:
drivers/dax/bus.c: In function 'do_id_store':
drivers/dax/bus.c:94:48: error: suggest braces around empty body in an 'else' statement [-Werror=empty-body]
94 | /* nothing to remove */;
| ^
drivers/dax/bus.c:99:43: error: suggest braces around empty body in an 'else' statement [-Werror=empty-body]
99 | /* dax_id already added */;
| ^
In both of these cases, the 'else' exists only to have a place to
add a comment, but that comment doesn't really explain that much
either, so the easiest way to shut up that warning is to just
remove the else.
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210322114514.3490752-1-arnd@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
The driver core ignores the return value of struct bus_type::remove()
because there is only little that can be done. To simplify the quest to
make this function return void, let struct dax_device_driver::remove()
return void, too. All users already unconditionally return 0, this commit
makes it obvious that returning an error code isn't intended.
Signed-off-by: Uwe Kleine-König <uwe@kleine-koenig.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210205222842.34896-6-uwe@kleine-koenig.org
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
