kernel/linux.git/drivers/dax/device.c, branch v6.12.80

device-dax: correct pgoff align in dax_set_mapping()

2024-10-09T19:47:19+00:00

pgoff should be aligned using ALIGN_DOWN() instead of ALIGN(). Otherwise, vmf->address not aligned to fault_size will be aligned to the next alignment, that can result in memory failure getting the wrong address. It's a subtle situation that only can be observed in page_mapped_in_vma() after the page is page fault handled by dev_dax_huge_fault. Generally, there is little chance to perform page_mapped_in_vma in dev-dax's page unless in specific error injection to the dax device to trigger an MCE - memory-failure. In that case, page_mapped_in_vma() will be triggered to determine which task is accessing the failure address and kill that task in the end. We used self-developed dax device (which is 2M aligned mapping) , to perform error injection to random address. It turned out that error injected to non-2M-aligned address was causing endless MCE until panic. Because page_mapped_in_vma() kept resulting wrong address and the task accessing the failure address was never killed properly: [ 3783.719419] Memory failure: 0x200c9742: recovery action for dax page: Recovered [ 3784.049006] mce: Uncorrected hardware memory error in user-access at 200c9742380 [ 3784.049190] Memory failure: 0x200c9742: recovery action for dax page: Recovered [ 3784.448042] mce: Uncorrected hardware memory error in user-access at 200c9742380 [ 3784.448186] Memory failure: 0x200c9742: recovery action for dax page: Recovered [ 3784.792026] mce: Uncorrected hardware memory error in user-access at 200c9742380 [ 3784.792179] Memory failure: 0x200c9742: recovery action for dax page: Recovered [ 3785.162502] mce: Uncorrected hardware memory error in user-access at 200c9742380 [ 3785.162633] Memory failure: 0x200c9742: recovery action for dax page: Recovered [ 3785.461116] mce: Uncorrected hardware memory error in user-access at 200c9742380 [ 3785.461247] Memory failure: 0x200c9742: recovery action for dax page: Recovered [ 3785.764730] mce: Uncorrected hardware memory error in user-access at 200c9742380 [ 3785.764859] Memory failure: 0x200c9742: recovery action for dax page: Recovered [ 3786.042128] mce: Uncorrected hardware memory error in user-access at 200c9742380 [ 3786.042259] Memory failure: 0x200c9742: recovery action for dax page: Recovered [ 3786.464293] mce: Uncorrected hardware memory error in user-access at 200c9742380 [ 3786.464423] Memory failure: 0x200c9742: recovery action for dax page: Recovered [ 3786.818090] mce: Uncorrected hardware memory error in user-access at 200c9742380 [ 3786.818217] Memory failure: 0x200c9742: recovery action for dax page: Recovered [ 3787.085297] mce: Uncorrected hardware memory error in user-access at 200c9742380 [ 3787.085424] Memory failure: 0x200c9742: recovery action for dax page: Recovered It took us several weeks to pinpoint this problem, but we eventually used bpftrace to trace the page fault and mce address and successfully identified the issue. Joao added: ; Likely we never reproduce in production because we always pin : device-dax regions in the region align they provide (Qemu does : similarly with prealloc in hugetlb/file backed memory). I think this : bug requires that we touch *unpinned* device-dax regions unaligned to : the device-dax selected alignment (page size i.e. 4K/2M/1G) Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/23c02a03e8d666fef11bbe13e85c69c8b4ca0624.1727421694.git.llfl@linux.alibaba.com Fixes: b9b5777f09be ("device-dax: use ALIGN() for determining pgoff") Signed-off-by: Kun(llfl) Tested-by: JianXiong Zhao Reviewed-by: Joao Martins Cc: Dan Williams Cc: Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton

mm/dax: dump start address in fault handler

2024-09-02T03:26:08+00:00

Patch series "mm/mprotect: Fix dax puds", v5. Dax supports pud pages for a while, but mprotect on puds was missing since the start. This series tries to fix that by providing pud handling in mprotect(). The goal is to add more types of pud mappings like hugetlb or pfnmaps. This series paves way for it by fixing known pud entries. Considering nobody reported this until when I looked at those other types of pud mappings, I am thinking maybe it doesn't need to be a fix for stable and this may not need to be backported. I would guess whoever cares about mprotect() won't care 1G dax puds yet, vice versa. I hope fixing that in new kernels would be fine, but I'm open to suggestions. There're a few small things changed to teach mprotect work on PUDs. E.g. it will need to start with dropping NUMA_HUGE_PTE_UPDATES which may stop making sense when there can be more than one type of huge pte. OTOH, we'll also need to push the mmu notifiers from pmd to pud layers, which might need some attention but so far I think it's safe. For such details, please refer to each patch's commit message. The mprotect() pud process should be straightforward, as I kept it as simple as possible. There's no NUMA handled as dax simply doesn't support that. There's also no userfault involvements as file memory (even if work with userfault-wp async mode) will need to split a pud, so pud entry doesn't need to yet know userfault's existance (but hugetlb entries will; that's also for later). This patch (of 7): Currently the dax fault handler dumps the vma range when dynamic debugging enabled. That's mostly not useful. Dump the (aligned) address instead with the order info. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240812181225.1360970-1-peterx@redhat.com Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240812181225.1360970-2-peterx@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Peter Xu Acked-by: David Hildenbrand Cc: Aneesh Kumar K.V Cc: Borislav Petkov Cc: Christophe Leroy Cc: Dan Williams Cc: Dave Hansen Cc: Dave Jiang Cc: David Rientjes Cc: "Edgecombe, Rick P" Cc: Hugh Dickins Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Kirill A. Shutemov Cc: Matthew Wilcox Cc: Michael Ellerman Cc: Nicholas Piggin Cc: Oscar Salvador Cc: Paolo Bonzini Cc: Rik van Riel Cc: Sean Christopherson Cc: Thomas Gleixner Cc: Vlastimil Babka Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton

dax: add missing MODULE_DESCRIPTION() macros

2024-06-17T23:42:16+00:00

make allmodconfig && make W=1 C=1 reports: WARNING: modpost: missing MODULE_DESCRIPTION() in drivers/dax/hmem/dax_hmem.o WARNING: modpost: missing MODULE_DESCRIPTION() in drivers/dax/device_dax.o WARNING: modpost: missing MODULE_DESCRIPTION() in drivers/dax/kmem.o WARNING: modpost: missing MODULE_DESCRIPTION() in drivers/dax/dax_pmem.o WARNING: modpost: missing MODULE_DESCRIPTION() in drivers/dax/dax_cxl.o Add all missing invocations of the MODULE_DESCRIPTION() macro. [iweiny: edit descriptions] Signed-off-by: Jeff Johnson Link: https://patch.msgid.link/r/20240605-md-drivers-dax-v1-1-3d448f3368b4@quicinc.com Signed-off-by: Ira Weiny

Merge tag 'mm-stable-2024-05-17-19-19' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm

2024-05-19T16:21:03+00:00

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 ...

mm: switch mm->get_unmapped_area() to a flag

2024-04-26T03:56:25+00:00

The mm_struct contains a function pointer *get_unmapped_area(), which is set to either arch_get_unmapped_area() or arch_get_unmapped_area_topdown() during the initialization of the mm. Since the function pointer only ever points to two functions that are named the same across all arch's, a function pointer is not really required. In addition future changes will want to add versions of the functions that take additional arguments. So to save a pointers worth of bytes in mm_struct, and prevent adding additional function pointers to mm_struct in future changes, remove it and keep the information about which get_unmapped_area() to use in a flag. Add the new flag to MMF_INIT_MASK so it doesn't get clobbered on fork by mmf_init_flags(). Most MM flags get clobbered on fork. In the pre-existing behavior mm->get_unmapped_area() would get copied to the new mm in dup_mm(), so not clobbering the flag preserves the existing behavior around inheriting the topdown-ness. Introduce a helper, mm_get_unmapped_area(), to easily convert code that refers to the old function pointer to instead select and call either arch_get_unmapped_area() or arch_get_unmapped_area_topdown() based on the flag. Then drop the mm->get_unmapped_area() function pointer. Leave the get_unmapped_area() pointer in struct file_operations alone. The main purpose of this change is to reorganize in preparation for future changes, but it also converts the calls of mm->get_unmapped_area() from indirect branches into a direct ones. The stress-ng bigheap benchmark calls realloc a lot, which calls through get_unmapped_area() in the kernel. On x86, the change yielded a ~1% improvement there on a retpoline config. In testing a few x86 configs, removing the pointer unfortunately didn't result in any actual size reductions in the compiled layout of mm_struct. But depending on compiler or arch alignment requirements, the change could shrink the size of mm_struct. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240326021656.202649-3-rick.p.edgecombe@intel.com Signed-off-by: Rick Edgecombe Acked-by: Dave Hansen Acked-by: Liam R. Howlett Reviewed-by: Kirill A. Shutemov Acked-by: Alexei Starovoitov Cc: Dan Williams Cc: Andy Lutomirski Cc: Aneesh Kumar K.V Cc: Borislav Petkov (AMD) Cc: Christophe Leroy Cc: Deepak Gupta Cc: Guo Ren Cc: Helge Deller Cc: H. Peter Anvin (Intel) Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: "James E.J. Bottomley" Cc: Kees Cook Cc: Mark Brown Cc: Michael Ellerman Cc: Naveen N. Rao Cc: Nicholas Piggin Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Thomas Gleixner Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton

fs: claw back a few FMODE_* bits

2024-04-07T11:49:02+00:00

There's a bunch of flags that are purely based on what the file operations support while also never being conditionally set or unset. IOW, they're not subject to change for individual files. Imho, such flags don't need to live in f_mode they might as well live in the fops structs itself. And the fops struct already has that lonely mmap_supported_flags member. We might as well turn that into a generic fop_flags member and move a few flags from FMODE_* space into FOP_* space. That gets us four FMODE_* bits back and the ability for new static flags that are about file ops to not have to live in FMODE_* space but in their own FOP_* space. It's not the most beautiful thing ever but it gets the job done. Yes, there'll be an additional pointer chase but hopefully that won't matter for these flags. I suspect there's a few more we can move into there and that we can also redirect a bunch of new flag suggestions that follow this pattern into the fop_flags field instead of f_mode. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240328-gewendet-spargel-aa60a030ef74@brauner Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig Reviewed-by: Jan Kara Reviewed-by: Jens Axboe Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner

mm: remove enum page_entry_size

2023-08-24T23:20:30+00:00

Remove the unnecessary encoding of page order into an enum and pass the page order directly. That lets us get rid of pe_order(). The switch constructs have to be changed to if/else constructs to prevent GCC from warning on builds with 3-level page tables where PMD_ORDER and PUD_ORDER have the same value. If you are looking at this commit because your driver stopped compiling, look at the previous commit as well and audit your driver to be sure it doesn't depend on mmap_lock being held in its ->huge_fault method. [willy@infradead.org: use "order %u" to match the (non dev_t) style] Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/ZOUYekbtTv+n8hYf@casper.infradead.org Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230818202335.2739663-4-willy@infradead.org Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton

dax: fix missing-prototype warnings

2023-05-19T00:28:07+00:00

dev_dax_probe declaration for this function was removed with the only caller outside of device.c. Mark it static to avoid a W=1 warning: drivers/dax/device.c:399:5: error: no previous prototype for 'dev_dax_probe' Similarly, run_dax() causes a warning, but this one is because the declaration needs to be included: drivers/dax/super.c:337:6: error: no previous prototype for 'run_dax' Fixes: 83762cb5c7c4 ("dax: Kill DEV_DAX_PMEM_COMPAT") Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230517125532.931157-1-arnd@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Dan Williams

Merge tag 'cxl-for-6.3' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/cxl/cxl

2023-02-25T17:19:23+00:00

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() ...

dax: Assign RAM regions to memory-hotplug by default

2023-02-11T01:33:40+00:00

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 Cc: David Hildenbrand Cc: Dave Hansen Reviewed-by: Gregory Price Tested-by: Fan Ni Reviewed-by: Dave Jiang Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/167602003336.1924368.6809503401422267885.stgit@dwillia2-xfh.jf.intel.com Signed-off-by: Dan Williams