kernel/linux.git/drivers/dax/super.c, branch linux-7.1.y

dax: export dax_dev_get()

2026-03-30T13:20:48+00:00

famfs needs to look up a dax_device by dev_t when resolving fmap entries that reference character dax devices. Reviewed-by: Dave Jiang Reviewed-by: Jonathan Cameron Signed-off-by: John Groves Link: https://patch.msgid.link/0100019d311daab5-bb212f0b-4e05-4668-bf53-d76fab56be68-000000@email.amazonses.com Signed-off-by: Ira Weiny

dax: Add fs_dax_get() func to prepare dax for fs-dax usage

2026-03-30T13:20:48+00:00

The fs_dax_get() function should be called by fs-dax file systems after opening a fsdev dax device. This adds holder_operations, which provides a memory failure callback path and effects exclusivity between callers of fs_dax_get(). fs_dax_get() is specific to fsdev_dax, so it checks the driver type (which required touching bus.[ch]). fs_dax_get() fails if fsdev_dax is not bound to the memory. This function serves the same role as fs_dax_get_by_bdev(), which dax file systems call after opening the pmem block device. This can't be located in fsdev.c because struct dax_device is opaque there. This will be called by fs/fuse/famfs.c in a subsequent commit. Reviewed-by: Jonathan Cameron Reviewed-by: Dave Jiang Signed-off-by: John Groves Link: https://patch.msgid.link/0100019d311d8750-75395c22-031b-4d5f-aebe-790dca656b87-000000@email.amazonses.com Signed-off-by: Ira Weiny

dax: Add dax_set_ops() for setting dax_operations at bind time

2026-03-30T13:20:48+00:00

Add a new dax_set_ops() function that allows drivers to set the dax_operations after the dax_device has been allocated. This is needed for fsdev_dax where the operations need to be set during probe and cleared during unbind. The fsdev driver uses devm_add_action_or_reset() for cleanup consistency, avoiding the complexity of mixing devm-managed resources with manual cleanup in a remove() callback. This ensures cleanup happens automatically in the correct reverse order when the device is unbound. Reviewed-by: Dave Jiang Reviewed-by: Jonathan Cameron Signed-off-by: John Groves Link: https://patch.msgid.link/0100019d311d65a0-b9c1419e-f3a0-4afd-b0bd-848f18ff5950-000000@email.amazonses.com Signed-off-by: Ira Weiny

Coccinelle-based conversion to use ->i_state accessors

2025-10-20T18:22:26+00:00

All places were patched by coccinelle with the default expecting that ->i_lock is held, afterwards entries got fixed up by hand to use unlocked variants as needed. The script: @@ expression inode, flags; @@ - inode->i_state & flags + inode_state_read(inode) & flags @@ expression inode, flags; @@ - inode->i_state &= ~flags + inode_state_clear(inode, flags) @@ expression inode, flag1, flag2; @@ - inode->i_state &= ~flag1 & ~flag2 + inode_state_clear(inode, flag1 | flag2) @@ expression inode, flags; @@ - inode->i_state |= flags + inode_state_set(inode, flags) @@ expression inode, flags; @@ - inode->i_state = flags + inode_state_assign(inode, flags) @@ expression inode, flags; @@ - flags = inode->i_state + flags = inode_state_read(inode) @@ expression inode, flags; @@ - READ_ONCE(inode->i_state) & flags + inode_state_read(inode) & flags Signed-off-by: Mateusz Guzik Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner

fs: rename generic_delete_inode() and generic_drop_inode()

2025-09-15T14:09:42+00:00

generic_delete_inode() is rather misleading for what the routine is doing. inode_just_drop() should be much clearer. The new naming is inconsistent with generic_drop_inode(), so rename that one as well with inode_ as the suffix. No functional changes. Signed-off-by: Mateusz Guzik Reviewed-by: Jan Kara Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner

mm: remove callers of pfn_t functionality

2025-07-10T05:42:19+00:00

All PFN_* pfn_t flags have been removed. Therefore there is no longer a need for the pfn_t type and all uses can be replaced with normal pfns. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/bbedfa576c9822f8032494efbe43544628698b1f.1750323463.git-series.apopple@nvidia.com Signed-off-by: Alistair Popple Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig Reviewed-by: Jason Gunthorpe Acked-by: David Hildenbrand Cc: Balbir Singh Cc: Björn Töpel Cc: Björn Töpel Cc: Chunyan Zhang Cc: Dan Williams Cc: Deepak Gupta Cc: Gerald Schaefer Cc: Inki Dae Cc: John Groves Cc: John Hubbard Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) Cc: Will Deacon 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-2024-03-13-20-04' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm

2024-03-15T00:43:30+00:00

Pull MM updates from Andrew Morton: - Sumanth Korikkar has taught s390 to allocate hotplug-time page frames from hotplugged memory rather than only from main memory. Series "implement "memmap on memory" feature on s390". - More folio conversions from Matthew Wilcox in the series "Convert memcontrol charge moving to use folios" "mm: convert mm counter to take a folio" - Chengming Zhou has optimized zswap's rbtree locking, providing significant reductions in system time and modest but measurable reductions in overall runtimes. The series is "mm/zswap: optimize the scalability of zswap rb-tree". - Chengming Zhou has also provided the series "mm/zswap: optimize zswap lru list" which provides measurable runtime benefits in some swap-intensive situations. - And Chengming Zhou further optimizes zswap in the series "mm/zswap: optimize for dynamic zswap_pools". Measured improvements are modest. - zswap cleanups and simplifications from Yosry Ahmed in the series "mm: zswap: simplify zswap_swapoff()". - In the series "Add DAX ABI for memmap_on_memory", Vishal Verma has contributed several DAX cleanups as well as adding a sysfs tunable to control the memmap_on_memory setting when the dax device is hotplugged as system memory. - Johannes Weiner has added the large series "mm: zswap: cleanups", which does that. - More DAMON work from SeongJae Park in the series "mm/damon: make DAMON debugfs interface deprecation unignorable" "selftests/damon: add more tests for core functionalities and corner cases" "Docs/mm/damon: misc readability improvements" "mm/damon: let DAMOS feeds and tame/auto-tune itself" - In the series "mm/mempolicy: weighted interleave mempolicy and sysfs extension" Rakie Kim has developed a new mempolicy interleaving policy wherein we allocate memory across nodes in a weighted fashion rather than uniformly. This is beneficial in heterogeneous memory environments appearing with CXL. - Christophe Leroy has contributed some cleanup and consolidation work against the ARM pagetable dumping code in the series "mm: ptdump: Refactor CONFIG_DEBUG_WX and check_wx_pages debugfs attribute". - Luis Chamberlain has added some additional xarray selftesting in the series "test_xarray: advanced API multi-index tests". - Muhammad Usama Anjum has reworked the selftest code to make its human-readable output conform to the TAP ("Test Anything Protocol") format. Amongst other things, this opens up the use of third-party tools to parse and process out selftesting results. - Ryan Roberts has added fork()-time PTE batching of THP ptes in the series "mm/memory: optimize fork() with PTE-mapped THP". Mainly targeted at arm64, this significantly speeds up fork() when the process has a large number of pte-mapped folios. - David Hildenbrand also gets in on the THP pte batching game in his series "mm/memory: optimize unmap/zap with PTE-mapped THP". It implements batching during munmap() and other pte teardown situations. The microbenchmark improvements are nice. - And in the series "Transparent Contiguous PTEs for User Mappings" Ryan Roberts further utilizes arm's pte's contiguous bit ("contpte mappings"). Kernel build times on arm64 improved nicely. Ryan's series "Address some contpte nits" provides some followup work. - In the series "mm/hugetlb: Restore the reservation" Breno Leitao has fixed an obscure hugetlb race which was causing unnecessary page faults. He has also added a reproducer under the selftest code. - In the series "selftests/mm: Output cleanups for the compaction test", Mark Brown did what the title claims. - Kinsey Ho has added the series "mm/mglru: code cleanup and refactoring". - Even more zswap material from Nhat Pham. The series "fix and extend zswap kselftests" does as claimed. - In the series "Introduce cpu_dcache_is_aliasing() to fix DAX regression" Mathieu Desnoyers has cleaned up and fixed rather a mess in our handling of DAX on archiecctures which have virtually aliasing data caches. The arm architecture is the main beneficiary. - Lokesh Gidra's series "per-vma locks in userfaultfd" provides dramatic improvements in worst-case mmap_lock hold times during certain userfaultfd operations. - Some page_owner enhancements and maintenance work from Oscar Salvador in his series "page_owner: print stacks and their outstanding allocations" "page_owner: Fixup and cleanup" - Uladzislau Rezki has contributed some vmalloc scalability improvements in his series "Mitigate a vmap lock contention". It realizes a 12x improvement for a certain microbenchmark. - Some kexec/crash cleanup work from Baoquan He in the series "Split crash out from kexec and clean up related config items". - Some zsmalloc maintenance work from Chengming Zhou in the series "mm/zsmalloc: fix and optimize objects/page migration" "mm/zsmalloc: some cleanup for get/set_zspage_mapping()" - Zi Yan has taught the MM to perform compaction on folios larger than order=0. This a step along the path to implementaton of the merging of large anonymous folios. The series is named "Enable >0 order folio memory compaction". - Christoph Hellwig has done quite a lot of cleanup work in the pagecache writeback code in his series "convert write_cache_pages() to an iterator". - Some modest hugetlb cleanups and speedups in Vishal Moola's series "Handle hugetlb faults under the VMA lock". - Zi Yan has changed the page splitting code so we can split huge pages into sizes other than order-0 to better utilize large folios. The series is named "Split a folio to any lower order folios". - David Hildenbrand has contributed the series "mm: remove total_mapcount()", a cleanup. - Matthew Wilcox has sought to improve the performance of bulk memory freeing in his series "Rearrange batched folio freeing". - Gang Li's series "hugetlb: parallelize hugetlb page init on boot" provides large improvements in bootup times on large machines which are configured to use large numbers of hugetlb pages. - Matthew Wilcox's series "PageFlags cleanups" does that. - Qi Zheng's series "minor fixes and supplement for ptdesc" does that also. S390 is affected. - Cleanups to our pagemap utility functions from Peter Xu in his series "mm/treewide: Replace pXd_large() with pXd_leaf()". - Nico Pache has fixed a few things with our hugepage selftests in his series "selftests/mm: Improve Hugepage Test Handling in MM Selftests". - Also, of course, many singleton patches to many things. Please see the individual changelogs for details. * tag 'mm-stable-2024-03-13-20-04' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (435 commits) mm/zswap: remove the memcpy if acomp is not sleepable crypto: introduce: acomp_is_async to expose if comp drivers might sleep memtest: use {READ,WRITE}_ONCE in memory scanning mm: prohibit the last subpage from reusing the entire large folio mm: recover pud_leaf() definitions in nopmd case selftests/mm: skip the hugetlb-madvise tests on unmet hugepage requirements selftests/mm: skip uffd hugetlb tests with insufficient hugepages selftests/mm: dont fail testsuite due to a lack of hugepages mm/huge_memory: skip invalid debugfs new_order input for folio split mm/huge_memory: check new folio order when split a folio mm, vmscan: retry kswapd's priority loop with cache_trim_mode off on failure mm: add an explicit smp_wmb() to UFFDIO_CONTINUE mm: fix list corruption in put_pages_list mm: remove folio from deferred split list before uncharging it filemap: avoid unnecessary major faults in filemap_fault() mm,page_owner: drop unnecessary check mm,page_owner: check for null stack_record before bumping its refcount mm: swap: fix race between free_swap_and_cache() and swapoff() mm/treewide: align up pXd_leaf() retval across archs mm/treewide: drop pXd_large() ...

mm, slab: remove last vestiges of SLAB_MEM_SPREAD

2024-03-13T03:32:19+00:00

Yes, yes, I know the slab people were planning on going slow and letting every subsystem fight this thing on their own. But let's just rip off the band-aid and get it over and done with. I don't want to see a number of unnecessary pull requests just to get rid of a flag that no longer has any meaning. This was mainly done with a couple of 'sed' scripts and then some manual cleanup of the end result. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/CAHk-=wji0u+OOtmAOD-5JV3SXcRJF___k_+8XNKmak0yd5vW1Q@mail.gmail.com/ Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

dax: fix incorrect list of data cache aliasing architectures

2024-02-22T23:27:20+00:00

commit d92576f1167c ("dax: does not work correctly with virtual aliasing caches") prevents DAX from building on architectures with virtually aliased dcache with: depends on !(ARM || MIPS || SPARC) This check is too broad (e.g. recent ARMv7 don't have virtually aliased dcaches), and also misses many other architectures with virtually aliased data cache. This is a regression introduced in the v4.0 Linux kernel where the dax mount option is removed for 32-bit ARMv7 boards which have no data cache aliasing, and therefore should work fine with FS_DAX. This was turned into the following check in alloc_dax() by a preparatory change: if (ops && (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_ARM) || IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_MIPS) || IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_SPARC))) return NULL; Use cpu_dcache_is_aliasing() instead to figure out whether the environment has aliasing data caches. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240215144633.96437-10-mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com Fixes: d92576f1167c ("dax: does not work correctly with virtual aliasing caches") Signed-off-by: Mathieu Desnoyers Reviewed-by: Dan Williams Cc: Dan Williams Cc: Vishal Verma Cc: Dave Jiang Cc: Matthew Wilcox Cc: Arnd Bergmann Cc: Russell King Cc: Alasdair Kergon Cc: Christoph Hellwig Cc: Dave Chinner Cc: Heiko Carstens Cc: kernel test robot Cc: Michael Sclafani Cc: Mike Snitzer Cc: Mikulas Patocka Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton