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<title>kernel/linux.git/drivers/dax/device.c, branch linux-5.11.y</title>
<subtitle>Linux kernel stable tree (mirror)</subtitle>
<id>https://git.radix-linux.su/kernel/linux.git/atom?h=linux-5.11.y</id>
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<updated>2020-12-15T20:13:41+00:00</updated>
<entry>
<title>vm_ops: rename .split() callback to .may_split()</title>
<updated>2020-12-15T20:13:41+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Dmitry Safonov</name>
<email>dima@arista.com</email>
</author>
<published>2020-12-15T03:08:17+00:00</published>
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Rename the callback to reflect that it's not called *on* or *after* split,
but rather some time before the splitting to check if it's possible.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20201013013416.390574-5-dima@arista.com
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Safonov &lt;dima@arista.com&gt;
Cc: Alexander Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Andy Lutomirski &lt;luto@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Brian Geffon &lt;bgeffon@google.com&gt;
Cc: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Dan Carpenter &lt;dan.carpenter@oracle.com&gt;
Cc: Dan Williams &lt;dan.j.williams@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Dave Jiang &lt;dave.jiang@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Hugh Dickins &lt;hughd@google.com&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Jason Gunthorpe &lt;jgg@ziepe.ca&gt;
Cc: John Hubbard &lt;jhubbard@nvidia.com&gt;
Cc: "Kirill A. Shutemov" &lt;kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Mike Kravetz &lt;mike.kravetz@oracle.com&gt;
Cc: Minchan Kim &lt;minchan@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Ralph Campbell &lt;rcampbell@nvidia.com&gt;
Cc: Russell King &lt;linux@armlinux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Thomas Bogendoerfer &lt;tsbogend@alpha.franken.de&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Vishal Verma &lt;vishal.l.verma@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Vlastimil Babka &lt;vbabka@suse.cz&gt;
Cc: Will Deacon &lt;will@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>device-dax: make align a per-device property</title>
<updated>2020-10-14T01:38:28+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Joao Martins</name>
<email>joao.m.martins@oracle.com</email>
</author>
<published>2020-10-13T23:50:50+00:00</published>
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Introduce @align to struct dev_dax.

When creating a new device, we still initialize to the default dax_region
@align.  Child devices belonging to a region may wish to keep a different
alignment property instead of a global region-defined one.

Signed-off-by: Joao Martins &lt;joao.m.martins@oracle.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams &lt;dan.j.williams@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Andy Lutomirski &lt;luto@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Ard Biesheuvel &lt;ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org&gt;
Cc: Ard Biesheuvel &lt;ardb@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
Cc: Ben Skeggs &lt;bskeggs@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Bjorn Helgaas &lt;bhelgaas@google.com&gt;
Cc: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@alien8.de&gt;
Cc: Boris Ostrovsky &lt;boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com&gt;
Cc: Brice Goglin &lt;Brice.Goglin@inria.fr&gt;
Cc: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Daniel Vetter &lt;daniel@ffwll.ch&gt;
Cc: Dave Hansen &lt;dave.hansen@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Dave Jiang &lt;dave.jiang@intel.com&gt;
Cc: David Airlie &lt;airlied@linux.ie&gt;
Cc: David Hildenbrand &lt;david@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
Cc: Hulk Robot &lt;hulkci@huawei.com&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Ira Weiny &lt;ira.weiny@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Jason Gunthorpe &lt;jgg@mellanox.com&gt;
Cc: Jason Yan &lt;yanaijie@huawei.com&gt;
Cc: Jeff Moyer &lt;jmoyer@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: "Jérôme Glisse" &lt;jglisse@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Jia He &lt;justin.he@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Jonathan Cameron &lt;Jonathan.Cameron@huawei.com&gt;
Cc: Juergen Gross &lt;jgross@suse.com&gt;
Cc: kernel test robot &lt;lkp@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Cc: Mike Rapoport &lt;rppt@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Paul Mackerras &lt;paulus@ozlabs.org&gt;
Cc: Pavel Tatashin &lt;pasha.tatashin@soleen.com&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" &lt;rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Randy Dunlap &lt;rdunlap@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Stefano Stabellini &lt;sstabellini@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Tom Lendacky &lt;thomas.lendacky@amd.com&gt;
Cc: Vishal Verma &lt;vishal.l.verma@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Vivek Goyal &lt;vgoyal@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Wei Yang &lt;richard.weiyang@linux.alibaba.com&gt;
Cc: Will Deacon &lt;will@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/159643105377.4062302.4159447829955683131.stgit@dwillia2-desk3.amr.corp.intel.com
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200716172913.19658-2-joao.m.martins@oracle.com
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/160106117957.30709.1142303024324655705.stgit@dwillia2-desk3.amr.corp.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>device-dax: add dis-contiguous resource support</title>
<updated>2020-10-14T01:38:28+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Dan Williams</name>
<email>dan.j.williams@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2020-10-13T23:50:39+00:00</published>
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Break the requirement that device-dax instances are physically contiguous.
With this constraint removed it allows fragmented available capacity to
be fully allocated.

This capability is useful to mitigate the "noisy neighbor" problem with
memory-side-cache management for virtual machines, or any other scenario
where a platform address boundary also designates a performance boundary.
For example a direct mapped memory side cache might rotate cache colors at
1GB boundaries.  With dis-contiguous allocations a device-dax instance
could be configured to contain only 1 cache color.

It also satisfies Joao's use case (see link) for partitioning memory for
exclusive guest access.  It allows for a future potential mode where the
host kernel need not allocate 'struct page' capacity up-front.

Reported-by: Joao Martins &lt;joao.m.martins@oracle.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams &lt;dan.j.williams@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Andy Lutomirski &lt;luto@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Ard Biesheuvel &lt;ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org&gt;
Cc: Ard Biesheuvel &lt;ardb@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
Cc: Ben Skeggs &lt;bskeggs@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Bjorn Helgaas &lt;bhelgaas@google.com&gt;
Cc: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@alien8.de&gt;
Cc: Boris Ostrovsky &lt;boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com&gt;
Cc: Brice Goglin &lt;Brice.Goglin@inria.fr&gt;
Cc: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Daniel Vetter &lt;daniel@ffwll.ch&gt;
Cc: Dave Hansen &lt;dave.hansen@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Dave Jiang &lt;dave.jiang@intel.com&gt;
Cc: David Airlie &lt;airlied@linux.ie&gt;
Cc: David Hildenbrand &lt;david@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
Cc: Hulk Robot &lt;hulkci@huawei.com&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Ira Weiny &lt;ira.weiny@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Jason Gunthorpe &lt;jgg@mellanox.com&gt;
Cc: Jason Yan &lt;yanaijie@huawei.com&gt;
Cc: Jeff Moyer &lt;jmoyer@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: "Jérôme Glisse" &lt;jglisse@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Jia He &lt;justin.he@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Jonathan Cameron &lt;Jonathan.Cameron@huawei.com&gt;
Cc: Juergen Gross &lt;jgross@suse.com&gt;
Cc: kernel test robot &lt;lkp@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Cc: Mike Rapoport &lt;rppt@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Paul Mackerras &lt;paulus@ozlabs.org&gt;
Cc: Pavel Tatashin &lt;pasha.tatashin@soleen.com&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" &lt;rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Randy Dunlap &lt;rdunlap@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Stefano Stabellini &lt;sstabellini@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Tom Lendacky &lt;thomas.lendacky@amd.com&gt;
Cc: Vishal Verma &lt;vishal.l.verma@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Vivek Goyal &lt;vgoyal@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Wei Yang &lt;richard.weiyang@linux.alibaba.com&gt;
Cc: Will Deacon &lt;will@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20200110190313.17144-1-joao.m.martins@oracle.com/
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/159643104304.4062302.16561669534797528660.stgit@dwillia2-desk3.amr.corp.intel.com
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/160106116875.30709.11456649969327399771.stgit@dwillia2-desk3.amr.corp.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>mm/memremap_pages: support multiple ranges per invocation</title>
<updated>2020-10-14T01:38:28+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Dan Williams</name>
<email>dan.j.williams@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2020-10-13T23:50:34+00:00</published>
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In support of device-dax growing the ability to front physically
dis-contiguous ranges of memory, update devm_memremap_pages() to track
multiple ranges with a single reference counter and devm instance.

Convert all [devm_]memremap_pages() users to specify the number of ranges
they are mapping in their 'struct dev_pagemap' instance.

Signed-off-by: Dan Williams &lt;dan.j.williams@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Paul Mackerras &lt;paulus@ozlabs.org&gt;
Cc: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
Cc: Vishal Verma &lt;vishal.l.verma@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Vivek Goyal &lt;vgoyal@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Dave Jiang &lt;dave.jiang@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Ben Skeggs &lt;bskeggs@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: David Airlie &lt;airlied@linux.ie&gt;
Cc: Daniel Vetter &lt;daniel@ffwll.ch&gt;
Cc: Ira Weiny &lt;ira.weiny@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Bjorn Helgaas &lt;bhelgaas@google.com&gt;
Cc: Boris Ostrovsky &lt;boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com&gt;
Cc: Juergen Gross &lt;jgross@suse.com&gt;
Cc: Stefano Stabellini &lt;sstabellini@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: "Jérôme Glisse" &lt;jglisse@redhat.co
Cc: Andy Lutomirski &lt;luto@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Ard Biesheuvel &lt;ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org&gt;
Cc: Ard Biesheuvel &lt;ardb@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@alien8.de&gt;
Cc: Brice Goglin &lt;Brice.Goglin@inria.fr&gt;
Cc: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Dave Hansen &lt;dave.hansen@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: David Hildenbrand &lt;david@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
Cc: Hulk Robot &lt;hulkci@huawei.com&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Jason Gunthorpe &lt;jgg@mellanox.com&gt;
Cc: Jason Yan &lt;yanaijie@huawei.com&gt;
Cc: Jeff Moyer &lt;jmoyer@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: "Jérôme Glisse" &lt;jglisse@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Jia He &lt;justin.he@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Joao Martins &lt;joao.m.martins@oracle.com&gt;
Cc: Jonathan Cameron &lt;Jonathan.Cameron@huawei.com&gt;
Cc: kernel test robot &lt;lkp@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Mike Rapoport &lt;rppt@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Pavel Tatashin &lt;pasha.tatashin@soleen.com&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" &lt;rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Randy Dunlap &lt;rdunlap@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Tom Lendacky &lt;thomas.lendacky@amd.com&gt;
Cc: Wei Yang &lt;richard.weiyang@linux.alibaba.com&gt;
Cc: Will Deacon &lt;will@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/159643103789.4062302.18426128170217903785.stgit@dwillia2-desk3.amr.corp.intel.com
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/160106116293.30709.13350662794915396198.stgit@dwillia2-desk3.amr.corp.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>mm/memremap_pages: convert to 'struct range'</title>
<updated>2020-10-14T01:38:28+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Dan Williams</name>
<email>dan.j.williams@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2020-10-13T23:50:29+00:00</published>
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The 'struct resource' in 'struct dev_pagemap' is only used for holding
resource span information.  The other fields, 'name', 'flags', 'desc',
'parent', 'sibling', and 'child' are all unused wasted space.

This is in preparation for introducing a multi-range extension of
devm_memremap_pages().

The bulk of this change is unwinding all the places internal to libnvdimm
that used 'struct resource' unnecessarily, and replacing instances of
'struct dev_pagemap'.res with 'struct dev_pagemap'.range.

P2PDMA had a minor usage of the resource flags field, but only to report
failures with "%pR".  That is replaced with an open coded print of the
range.

[dan.carpenter@oracle.com: mm/hmm/test: use after free in dmirror_allocate_chunk()]
  Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200926121402.GA7467@kadam

Signed-off-by: Dan Williams &lt;dan.j.williams@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter &lt;dan.carpenter@oracle.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Boris Ostrovsky &lt;boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com&gt;	[xen]
Cc: Paul Mackerras &lt;paulus@ozlabs.org&gt;
Cc: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
Cc: Vishal Verma &lt;vishal.l.verma@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Vivek Goyal &lt;vgoyal@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Dave Jiang &lt;dave.jiang@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Ben Skeggs &lt;bskeggs@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: David Airlie &lt;airlied@linux.ie&gt;
Cc: Daniel Vetter &lt;daniel@ffwll.ch&gt;
Cc: Ira Weiny &lt;ira.weiny@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Bjorn Helgaas &lt;bhelgaas@google.com&gt;
Cc: Juergen Gross &lt;jgross@suse.com&gt;
Cc: Stefano Stabellini &lt;sstabellini@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: "Jérôme Glisse" &lt;jglisse@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Andy Lutomirski &lt;luto@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Ard Biesheuvel &lt;ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org&gt;
Cc: Ard Biesheuvel &lt;ardb@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@alien8.de&gt;
Cc: Brice Goglin &lt;Brice.Goglin@inria.fr&gt;
Cc: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Dave Hansen &lt;dave.hansen@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: David Hildenbrand &lt;david@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
Cc: Hulk Robot &lt;hulkci@huawei.com&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Jason Gunthorpe &lt;jgg@mellanox.com&gt;
Cc: Jason Yan &lt;yanaijie@huawei.com&gt;
Cc: Jeff Moyer &lt;jmoyer@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Jia He &lt;justin.he@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Joao Martins &lt;joao.m.martins@oracle.com&gt;
Cc: Jonathan Cameron &lt;Jonathan.Cameron@huawei.com&gt;
Cc: kernel test robot &lt;lkp@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Mike Rapoport &lt;rppt@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Pavel Tatashin &lt;pasha.tatashin@soleen.com&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" &lt;rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Randy Dunlap &lt;rdunlap@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Tom Lendacky &lt;thomas.lendacky@amd.com&gt;
Cc: Wei Yang &lt;richard.weiyang@linux.alibaba.com&gt;
Cc: Will Deacon &lt;will@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/159643103173.4062302.768998885691711532.stgit@dwillia2-desk3.amr.corp.intel.com
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/160106115761.30709.13539840236873663620.stgit@dwillia2-desk3.amr.corp.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>device-dax: introduce 'struct dev_dax' typed-driver operations</title>
<updated>2020-10-14T01:38:28+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Dan Williams</name>
<email>dan.j.williams@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2020-10-13T23:50:08+00:00</published>
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In preparation for introducing seed devices the dax-bus core needs to be
able to intercept -&gt;probe() and -&gt;remove() operations.  Towards that end
arrange for the bus and drivers to switch from raw 'struct device' driver
operations to 'struct dev_dax' typed operations.

Reported-by: Hulk Robot &lt;hulkci@huawei.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams &lt;dan.j.williams@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Jason Yan &lt;yanaijie@huawei.com&gt;
Cc: Vishal Verma &lt;vishal.l.verma@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Brice Goglin &lt;Brice.Goglin@inria.fr&gt;
Cc: Dave Hansen &lt;dave.hansen@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Dave Jiang &lt;dave.jiang@intel.com&gt;
Cc: David Hildenbrand &lt;david@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Ira Weiny &lt;ira.weiny@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Jia He &lt;justin.he@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Joao Martins &lt;joao.m.martins@oracle.com&gt;
Cc: Jonathan Cameron &lt;Jonathan.Cameron@huawei.com&gt;
Cc: Andy Lutomirski &lt;luto@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Ard Biesheuvel &lt;ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org&gt;
Cc: Ard Biesheuvel &lt;ardb@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
Cc: Ben Skeggs &lt;bskeggs@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Bjorn Helgaas &lt;bhelgaas@google.com&gt;
Cc: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@alien8.de&gt;
Cc: Boris Ostrovsky &lt;boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com&gt;
Cc: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Daniel Vetter &lt;daniel@ffwll.ch&gt;
Cc: David Airlie &lt;airlied@linux.ie&gt;
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Jason Gunthorpe &lt;jgg@mellanox.com&gt;
Cc: Jeff Moyer &lt;jmoyer@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: "Jérôme Glisse" &lt;jglisse@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Juergen Gross &lt;jgross@suse.com&gt;
Cc: kernel test robot &lt;lkp@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Cc: Mike Rapoport &lt;rppt@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Paul Mackerras &lt;paulus@ozlabs.org&gt;
Cc: Pavel Tatashin &lt;pasha.tatashin@soleen.com&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" &lt;rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Randy Dunlap &lt;rdunlap@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Stefano Stabellini &lt;sstabellini@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Tom Lendacky &lt;thomas.lendacky@amd.com&gt;
Cc: Vivek Goyal &lt;vgoyal@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Wei Yang &lt;richard.weiyang@linux.alibaba.com&gt;
Cc: Will Deacon &lt;will@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/160106113357.30709.4541750544799737855.stgit@dwillia2-desk3.amr.corp.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>device-dax: make pgmap optional for instance creation</title>
<updated>2020-10-14T01:38:28+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Dan Williams</name>
<email>dan.j.williams@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2020-10-13T23:49:43+00:00</published>
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The passed in dev_pagemap is only required in the pmem case as the
libnvdimm core may have reserved a vmem_altmap for dev_memremap_pages() to
place the memmap in pmem directly.  In the hmem case there is no agent
reserving an altmap so it can all be handled by a core internal default.

Pass the resource range via a new @range property of 'struct
dev_dax_data'.

Signed-off-by: Dan Williams &lt;dan.j.williams@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: David Hildenbrand &lt;david@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Vishal Verma &lt;vishal.l.verma@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Dave Hansen &lt;dave.hansen@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Pavel Tatashin &lt;pasha.tatashin@soleen.com&gt;
Cc: Brice Goglin &lt;Brice.Goglin@inria.fr&gt;
Cc: Dave Jiang &lt;dave.jiang@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Ira Weiny &lt;ira.weiny@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Jia He &lt;justin.he@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Joao Martins &lt;joao.m.martins@oracle.com&gt;
Cc: Jonathan Cameron &lt;Jonathan.Cameron@huawei.com&gt;
Cc: Andy Lutomirski &lt;luto@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Ard Biesheuvel &lt;ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org&gt;
Cc: Ard Biesheuvel &lt;ardb@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
Cc: Ben Skeggs &lt;bskeggs@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Bjorn Helgaas &lt;bhelgaas@google.com&gt;
Cc: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@alien8.de&gt;
Cc: Boris Ostrovsky &lt;boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com&gt;
Cc: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Daniel Vetter &lt;daniel@ffwll.ch&gt;
Cc: David Airlie &lt;airlied@linux.ie&gt;
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
Cc: Hulk Robot &lt;hulkci@huawei.com&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Jason Gunthorpe &lt;jgg@mellanox.com&gt;
Cc: Jason Yan &lt;yanaijie@huawei.com&gt;
Cc: Jeff Moyer &lt;jmoyer@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: "Jérôme Glisse" &lt;jglisse@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Juergen Gross &lt;jgross@suse.com&gt;
Cc: kernel test robot &lt;lkp@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Cc: Mike Rapoport &lt;rppt@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Paul Mackerras &lt;paulus@ozlabs.org&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" &lt;rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Randy Dunlap &lt;rdunlap@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Stefano Stabellini &lt;sstabellini@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Tom Lendacky &lt;thomas.lendacky@amd.com&gt;
Cc: Vivek Goyal &lt;vgoyal@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Wei Yang &lt;richard.weiyang@linux.alibaba.com&gt;
Cc: Will Deacon &lt;will@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/159643099958.4062302.10379230791041872886.stgit@dwillia2-desk3.amr.corp.intel.com
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/160106110513.30709.4303239334850606031.stgit@dwillia2-desk3.amr.corp.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>device-dax: drop the dax_region.pfn_flags attribute</title>
<updated>2020-10-14T01:38:28+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Dan Williams</name>
<email>dan.j.williams@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2020-10-13T23:49:33+00:00</published>
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All callers specify the same flags to alloc_dax_region(), so there is no
need to allow for anything other than PFN_DEV|PFN_MAP, or carry a
-&gt;pfn_flags around on the region.  Device-dax instances are always page
backed.

Signed-off-by: Dan Williams &lt;dan.j.williams@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Vishal Verma &lt;vishal.l.verma@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Andy Lutomirski &lt;luto@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Ard Biesheuvel &lt;ardb@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
Cc: Ben Skeggs &lt;bskeggs@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@alien8.de&gt;
Cc: Brice Goglin &lt;Brice.Goglin@inria.fr&gt;
Cc: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Daniel Vetter &lt;daniel@ffwll.ch&gt;
Cc: Dave Hansen &lt;dave.hansen@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Dave Jiang &lt;dave.jiang@intel.com&gt;
Cc: David Airlie &lt;airlied@linux.ie&gt;
Cc: David Hildenbrand &lt;david@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Ira Weiny &lt;ira.weiny@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Jason Gunthorpe &lt;jgg@mellanox.com&gt;
Cc: Jeff Moyer &lt;jmoyer@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Jia He &lt;justin.he@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Joao Martins &lt;joao.m.martins@oracle.com&gt;
Cc: Jonathan Cameron &lt;Jonathan.Cameron@huawei.com&gt;
Cc: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Cc: Mike Rapoport &lt;rppt@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Paul Mackerras &lt;paulus@ozlabs.org&gt;
Cc: Pavel Tatashin &lt;pasha.tatashin@soleen.com&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" &lt;rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Tom Lendacky &lt;thomas.lendacky@amd.com&gt;
Cc: Wei Yang &lt;richard.weiyang@linux.alibaba.com&gt;
Cc: Will Deacon &lt;will@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Ard Biesheuvel &lt;ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org&gt;
Cc: Bjorn Helgaas &lt;bhelgaas@google.com&gt;
Cc: Boris Ostrovsky &lt;boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com&gt;
Cc: Hulk Robot &lt;hulkci@huawei.com&gt;
Cc: Jason Yan &lt;yanaijie@huawei.com&gt;
Cc: "Jérôme Glisse" &lt;jglisse@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Juergen Gross &lt;jgross@suse.com&gt;
Cc: kernel test robot &lt;lkp@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Randy Dunlap &lt;rdunlap@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Stefano Stabellini &lt;sstabellini@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Vivek Goyal &lt;vgoyal@redhat.com&gt;
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/159643098829.4062302.13611520567669439046.stgit@dwillia2-desk3.amr.corp.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>memremap: rename MEMORY_DEVICE_DEVDAX to MEMORY_DEVICE_GENERIC</title>
<updated>2020-09-04T07:59:59+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Roger Pau Monne</name>
<email>roger.pau@citrix.com</email>
</author>
<published>2020-09-01T08:33:25+00:00</published>
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This is in preparation for the logic behind MEMORY_DEVICE_DEVDAX also
being used by non DAX devices.

No functional change intended.

Signed-off-by: Roger Pau Monné &lt;roger.pau@citrix.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Ira Weiny &lt;ira.weiny@intel.com&gt;
Acked-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Pankaj Gupta &lt;pankaj.gupta.linux@gmail.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200901083326.21264-3-roger.pau@citrix.com
Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross &lt;jgross@suse.com&gt;
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>vfs: track per-sb writeback errors and report them to syncfs</title>
<updated>2020-06-02T17:59:05+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jeff Layton</name>
<email>jlayton@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2020-06-02T04:45:36+00:00</published>
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Patch series "vfs: have syncfs() return error when there are writeback
errors", v6.

Currently, syncfs does not return errors when one of the inodes fails to
be written back.  It will return errors based on the legacy AS_EIO and
AS_ENOSPC flags when syncing out the block device fails, but that's not
particularly helpful for filesystems that aren't backed by a blockdev.
It's also possible for a stray sync to lose those errors.

The basic idea in this set is to track writeback errors at the
superblock level, so that we can quickly and easily check whether
something bad happened without having to fsync each file individually.
syncfs is then changed to reliably report writeback errors after they
occur, much in the same fashion as fsync does now.

This patch (of 2):

Usually we suggest that applications call fsync when they want to ensure
that all data written to the file has made it to the backing store, but
that can be inefficient when there are a lot of open files.

Calling syncfs on the filesystem can be more efficient in some
situations, but the error reporting doesn't currently work the way most
people expect.  If a single inode on a filesystem reports a writeback
error, syncfs won't necessarily return an error.  syncfs only returns an
error if __sync_blockdev fails, and on some filesystems that's a no-op.

It would be better if syncfs reported an error if there were any
writeback failures.  Then applications could call syncfs to see if there
are any errors on any open files, and could then call fsync on all of
the other descriptors to figure out which one failed.

This patch adds a new errseq_t to struct super_block, and has
mapping_set_error also record writeback errors there.

To report those errors, we also need to keep an errseq_t in struct file
to act as a cursor.  This patch adds a dedicated field for that purpose,
which slots nicely into 4 bytes of padding at the end of struct file on
x86_64.

An earlier version of this patch used an O_PATH file descriptor to cue
the kernel that the open file should track the superblock error and not
the inode's writeback error.

I think that API is just too weird though.  This is simpler and should
make syncfs error reporting "just work" even if someone is multiplexing
fsync and syncfs on the same fds.

Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton &lt;jlayton@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
Cc: Andres Freund &lt;andres@anarazel.de&gt;
Cc: Matthew Wilcox &lt;willy@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Dave Chinner &lt;david@fromorbit.com&gt;
Cc: David Howells &lt;dhowells@redhat.com&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200428135155.19223-1-jlayton@kernel.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200428135155.19223-2-jlayton@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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