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<title>BMC/Intel-BMC/linux.git/drivers/nvdimm/region_devs.c, branch dev-5.2</title>
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<updated>2019-08-09T15:51:41+00:00</updated>
<entry>
<title>libnvdimm/bus: Fix wait_nvdimm_bus_probe_idle() ABBA deadlock</title>
<updated>2019-08-09T15:51:41+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Dan Williams</name>
<email>dan.j.williams@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2019-08-06T01:29:09+00:00</published>
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commit ca6bf264f6d856f959c4239cda1047b587745c67 upstream.

A multithreaded namespace creation/destruction stress test currently
deadlocks with the following lockup signature:

    INFO: task ndctl:2924 blocked for more than 122 seconds.
          Tainted: G           OE     5.2.0-rc4+ #3382
    "echo 0 &gt; /proc/sys/kernel/hung_task_timeout_secs" disables this message.
    ndctl           D    0  2924   1176 0x00000000
    Call Trace:
     ? __schedule+0x27e/0x780
     schedule+0x30/0xb0
     wait_nvdimm_bus_probe_idle+0x8a/0xd0 [libnvdimm]
     ? finish_wait+0x80/0x80
     uuid_store+0xe6/0x2e0 [libnvdimm]
     kernfs_fop_write+0xf0/0x1a0
     vfs_write+0xb7/0x1b0
     ksys_write+0x5c/0xd0
     do_syscall_64+0x60/0x240

     INFO: task ndctl:2923 blocked for more than 122 seconds.
           Tainted: G           OE     5.2.0-rc4+ #3382
     "echo 0 &gt; /proc/sys/kernel/hung_task_timeout_secs" disables this message.
     ndctl           D    0  2923   1175 0x00000000
     Call Trace:
      ? __schedule+0x27e/0x780
      ? __mutex_lock+0x489/0x910
      schedule+0x30/0xb0
      schedule_preempt_disabled+0x11/0x20
      __mutex_lock+0x48e/0x910
      ? nvdimm_namespace_common_probe+0x95/0x4d0 [libnvdimm]
      ? __lock_acquire+0x23f/0x1710
      ? nvdimm_namespace_common_probe+0x95/0x4d0 [libnvdimm]
      nvdimm_namespace_common_probe+0x95/0x4d0 [libnvdimm]
      __dax_pmem_probe+0x5e/0x210 [dax_pmem_core]
      ? nvdimm_bus_probe+0x1d0/0x2c0 [libnvdimm]
      dax_pmem_probe+0xc/0x20 [dax_pmem]
      nvdimm_bus_probe+0x90/0x2c0 [libnvdimm]
      really_probe+0xef/0x390
      driver_probe_device+0xb4/0x100

In this sequence an 'nd_dax' device is being probed and trying to take
the lock on its backing namespace to validate that the 'nd_dax' device
indeed has exclusive access to the backing namespace. Meanwhile, another
thread is trying to update the uuid property of that same backing
namespace. So one thread is in the probe path trying to acquire the
lock, and the other thread has acquired the lock and tries to flush the
probe path.

Fix this deadlock by not holding the namespace device_lock over the
wait_nvdimm_bus_probe_idle() synchronization step. In turn this requires
the device_lock to be held on entry to wait_nvdimm_bus_probe_idle() and
subsequently dropped internally to wait_nvdimm_bus_probe_idle().

Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Fixes: bf9bccc14c05 ("libnvdimm: pmem label sets and namespace instantiation")
Cc: Vishal Verma &lt;vishal.l.verma@intel.com&gt;
Tested-by: Jane Chu &lt;jane.chu@oracle.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/156341210094.292348.2384694131126767789.stgit@dwillia2-desk3.amr.corp.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams &lt;dan.j.williams@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>treewide: Replace GPLv2 boilerplate/reference with SPDX - rule 295</title>
<updated>2019-06-05T15:36:38+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Thomas Gleixner</name>
<email>tglx@linutronix.de</email>
</author>
<published>2019-05-29T14:18:09+00:00</published>
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Based on 1 normalized pattern(s):

  this program is free software you can redistribute it and or modify
  it under the terms of version 2 of the gnu general public license as
  published by the free software foundation this program is
  distributed in the hope that it will be useful but without any
  warranty without even the implied warranty of merchantability or
  fitness for a particular purpose see the gnu general public license
  for more details

extracted by the scancode license scanner the SPDX license identifier

  GPL-2.0-only

has been chosen to replace the boilerplate/reference in 64 file(s).

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Alexios Zavras &lt;alexios.zavras@intel.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Allison Randal &lt;allison@lohutok.net&gt;
Cc: linux-spdx@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190529141901.894819585@linutronix.de
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'devdax-for-5.1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/nvdimm/nvdimm</title>
<updated>2019-03-16T20:05:32+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2019-03-16T20:05:32+00:00</published>
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Pull device-dax updates from Dan Williams:
 "New device-dax infrastructure to allow persistent memory and other
  "reserved" / performance differentiated memories, to be assigned to
  the core-mm as "System RAM".

  Some users want to use persistent memory as additional volatile
  memory. They are willing to cope with potential performance
  differences, for example between DRAM and 3D Xpoint, and want to use
  typical Linux memory management apis rather than a userspace memory
  allocator layered over an mmap() of a dax file. The administration
  model is to decide how much Persistent Memory (pmem) to use as System
  RAM, create a device-dax-mode namespace of that size, and then assign
  it to the core-mm. The rationale for device-dax is that it is a
  generic memory-mapping driver that can be layered over any "special
  purpose" memory, not just pmem. On subsequent boots udev rules can be
  used to restore the memory assignment.

  One implication of using pmem as RAM is that mlock() no longer keeps
  data off persistent media. For this reason it is recommended to enable
  NVDIMM Security (previously merged for 5.0) to encrypt pmem contents
  at rest. We considered making this recommendation an actively enforced
  requirement, but in the end decided to leave it as a distribution /
  administrator policy to allow for emulation and test environments that
  lack security capable NVDIMMs.

  Summary:

   - Replace the /sys/class/dax device model with /sys/bus/dax, and
     include a compat driver so distributions can opt-in to the new ABI.

   - Allow for an alternative driver for the device-dax address-range

   - Introduce the 'kmem' driver to hotplug / assign a device-dax
     address-range to the core-mm.

   - Arrange for the device-dax target-node to be onlined so that the
     newly added memory range can be uniquely referenced by numa apis"

NOTE! I'm not entirely happy with the whole "PMEM as RAM" model because
we currently have special - and very annoying rules in the kernel about
accessing PMEM only with the "MC safe" accessors, because machine checks
inside the regular repeat string copy functions can be fatal in some
(not described) circumstances.

And apparently the PMEM modules can cause that a lot more than regular
RAM.  The argument is that this happens because PMEM doesn't necessarily
get scrubbed at boot like RAM does, but that is planned to be added for
the user space tooling.

Quoting Dan from another email:
 "The exposure can be reduced in the volatile-RAM case by scanning for
  and clearing errors before it is onlined as RAM. The userspace tooling
  for that can be in place before v5.1-final. There's also runtime
  notifications of errors via acpi_nfit_uc_error_notify() from
  background scrubbers on the DIMM devices. With that mechanism the
  kernel could proactively clear newly discovered poison in the volatile
  case, but that would be additional development more suitable for v5.2.

  I understand the concern, and the need to highlight this issue by
  tapping the brakes on feature development, but I don't see PMEM as RAM
  making the situation worse when the exposure is also there via DAX in
  the PMEM case. Volatile-RAM is arguably a safer use case since it's
  possible to repair pages where the persistent case needs active
  application coordination"

* tag 'devdax-for-5.1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/nvdimm/nvdimm:
  device-dax: "Hotplug" persistent memory for use like normal RAM
  mm/resource: Let walk_system_ram_range() search child resources
  mm/memory-hotplug: Allow memory resources to be children
  mm/resource: Move HMM pr_debug() deeper into resource code
  mm/resource: Return real error codes from walk failures
  device-dax: Add a 'modalias' attribute to DAX 'bus' devices
  device-dax: Add a 'target_node' attribute
  device-dax: Auto-bind device after successful new_id
  acpi/nfit, device-dax: Identify differentiated memory with a unique numa-node
  device-dax: Add /sys/class/dax backwards compatibility
  device-dax: Add support for a dax override driver
  device-dax: Move resource pinning+mapping into the common driver
  device-dax: Introduce bus + driver model
  device-dax: Start defining a dax bus model
  device-dax: Remove multi-resource infrastructure
  device-dax: Kill dax_region base
  device-dax: Kill dax_region ida
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<entry>
<title>libnvdimm/dimm: Add a no-BLK quirk based on NVDIMM family</title>
<updated>2019-02-03T00:35:26+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Dan Williams</name>
<email>dan.j.williams@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2019-02-03T00:35:26+00:00</published>
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As Dexuan reports the NVDIMM_FAMILY_HYPERV platform is incompatible with
the existing Linux namespace implementation because it uses
NSLABEL_FLAG_LOCAL for x1-width PMEM interleave sets. Quirk it as an
platform / DIMM that does not provide BLK-aperture access. Allow the
libnvdimm core to assume no potential for aliasing. In case other
implementations make the same mistake, provide a "noblk" module
parameter to force-enable the quirk.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/PU1P153MB0169977604493B82B662A01CBF920@PU1P153MB0169.APCP153.PROD.OUTLOOK.COM
Reported-by: Dexuan Cui &lt;decui@microsoft.com&gt;
Tested-by: Dexuan Cui &lt;decui@microsoft.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams &lt;dan.j.williams@intel.com&gt;
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>acpi/nfit, device-dax: Identify differentiated memory with a unique numa-node</title>
<updated>2019-01-07T05:41:57+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Dan Williams</name>
<email>dan.j.williams@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-11-09T20:43:07+00:00</published>
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Persistent memory, as described by the ACPI NFIT (NVDIMM Firmware
Interface Table), is the first known instance of a memory range
described by a unique "target" proximity domain. Where "initiator" and
"target" proximity domains is an approach that the ACPI HMAT
(Heterogeneous Memory Attributes Table) uses to described the unique
performance properties of a memory range relative to a given initiator
(e.g. CPU or DMA device).

Currently the numa-node for a /dev/pmemX block-device or /dev/daxX.Y
char-device follows the traditional notion of 'numa-node' where the
attribute conveys the closest online numa-node. That numa-node attribute
is useful for cpu-binding and memory-binding processes *near* the
device. However, when the memory range backing a 'pmem', or 'dax' device
is onlined (memory hot-add) the memory-only-numa-node representing that
address needs to be differentiated from the set of online nodes. In
other words, the numa-node association of the device depends on whether
you can bind processes *near* the cpu-numa-node in the offline
device-case, or bind process *on* the memory-range directly after the
backing address range is onlined.

Allow for the case that platform firmware describes persistent memory
with a unique proximity domain, i.e. when it is distinct from the
proximity of DRAM and CPUs that are on the same socket. Plumb the Linux
numa-node translation of that proximity through the libnvdimm region
device to namespaces that are in device-dax mode. With this in place the
proposed kmem driver [1] can optionally discover a unique numa-node
number for the address range as it transitions the memory from an
offline state managed by a device-driver to an online memory range
managed by the core-mm.

[1]: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20181022201317.8558C1D8@viggo.jf.intel.com

Reported-by: Fan Du &lt;fan.du@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Cc: "Oliver O'Halloran" &lt;oohall@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Dave Hansen &lt;dave.hansen@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Jérôme Glisse &lt;jglisse@redhat.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Yang Shi &lt;yang.shi@linux.alibaba.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams &lt;dan.j.williams@intel.com&gt;
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge miscellaneous libnvdimm updates for 4.21</title>
<updated>2018-12-28T03:54:10+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Dan Williams</name>
<email>dan.j.williams@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-12-28T03:54:10+00:00</published>
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* Use common helpers, bitmap_zalloc() and kstrndup(), to replace open
  coded versions.
* Clarify the comments around hotplug vs initial init case for the nfit
  driver.
* Cleanup the libnvdimm init path.
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>acpi/nfit, libnvdimm/security: Add security DSM overwrite support</title>
<updated>2018-12-21T20:44:41+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Dave Jiang</name>
<email>dave.jiang@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-12-13T22:36:18+00:00</published>
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<content type='text'>
Add support for the NVDIMM_FAMILY_INTEL "ovewrite" capability as
described by the Intel DSM spec v1.7. This will allow triggering of
overwrite on Intel NVDIMMs. The overwrite operation can take tens of
minutes. When the overwrite DSM is issued successfully, the NVDIMMs will
be unaccessible. The kernel will do backoff polling to detect when the
overwrite process is completed. According to the DSM spec v1.7, the 128G
NVDIMMs can take up to 15mins to perform overwrite and larger DIMMs will
take longer.

Given that overwrite puts the DIMM in an indeterminate state until it
completes introduce the NDD_SECURITY_OVERWRITE flag to prevent other
operations from executing when overwrite is happening. The
NDD_WORK_PENDING flag is added to denote that there is a device reference
on the nvdimm device for an async workqueue thread context.

Signed-off-by: Dave Jiang &lt;dave.jiang@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams &lt;dan.j.williams@intel.com&gt;
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>libnvdimm, pfn: Pad pfn namespaces relative to other regions</title>
<updated>2018-12-05T22:16:12+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Dan Williams</name>
<email>dan.j.williams@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-11-24T18:47:04+00:00</published>
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Commit cfe30b872058 "libnvdimm, pmem: adjust for section collisions with
'System RAM'" enabled Linux to workaround occasions where platform
firmware arranges for "System RAM" and "Persistent Memory" to collide
within a single section boundary. Unfortunately, as reported in this
issue [1], platform firmware can inflict the same collision between
persistent memory regions.

The approach of interrogating iomem_resource does not work in this
case because platform firmware may merge multiple regions into a single
iomem_resource range. Instead provide a method to interrogate regions
that share the same parent bus.

This is a stop-gap until the core-MM can grow support for hotplug on
sub-section boundaries.

[1]: https://github.com/pmem/ndctl/issues/76

Fixes: cfe30b872058 ("libnvdimm, pmem: adjust for section collisions with...")
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Reported-by: Patrick Geary &lt;patrickg@supermicro.com&gt;
Tested-by: Patrick Geary &lt;patrickg@supermicro.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Vishal Verma &lt;vishal.l.verma@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams &lt;dan.j.williams@intel.com&gt;
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>libnvdimm, region: Fail badblocks listing for inactive regions</title>
<updated>2018-09-28T18:12:34+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Dan Williams</name>
<email>dan.j.williams@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-09-27T22:01:55+00:00</published>
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While experimenting with region driver loading the following backtrace
was triggered:

 INFO: trying to register non-static key.
 the code is fine but needs lockdep annotation.
 turning off the locking correctness validator.
 [..]
 Call Trace:
  dump_stack+0x85/0xcb
  register_lock_class+0x571/0x580
  ? __lock_acquire+0x2ba/0x1310
  ? kernfs_seq_start+0x2a/0x80
  __lock_acquire+0xd4/0x1310
  ? dev_attr_show+0x1c/0x50
  ? __lock_acquire+0x2ba/0x1310
  ? kernfs_seq_start+0x2a/0x80
  ? lock_acquire+0x9e/0x1a0
  lock_acquire+0x9e/0x1a0
  ? dev_attr_show+0x1c/0x50
  badblocks_show+0x70/0x190
  ? dev_attr_show+0x1c/0x50
  dev_attr_show+0x1c/0x50

This results from a missing successful call to devm_init_badblocks()
from nd_region_probe(). Block attempts to show badblocks while the
region is not enabled.

Fixes: 6a6bef90425e ("libnvdimm: add mechanism to publish badblocks...")
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Johannes Thumshirn &lt;jthumshirn@suse.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Dave Jiang &lt;dave.jiang@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams &lt;dan.j.williams@intel.com&gt;
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>libnvdimm: Export max available extent</title>
<updated>2018-07-25T21:11:43+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Keith Busch</name>
<email>keith.busch@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-07-24T21:07:58+00:00</published>
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The 'available_size' attribute showing the combined total of all
unallocated space isn't always useful to know how large of a namespace
a user may be able to allocate if the region is fragmented. This patch
will export the largest extent of unallocated space that may be allocated
to create a new namespace.

Signed-off-by: Keith Busch &lt;keith.busch@intel.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Vishal Verma &lt;vishal.l.verma@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Dave Jiang &lt;dave.jiang@intel.com&gt;
</content>
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