kernel/linux.git/drivers/dax, branch v6.18.21

drivers/dax: add some missing kerneldoc comment fields for struct dev_dax

2026-01-23T10:21:20+00:00

[ Upstream commit 3e8e590fd65d0572584ab7bba89a35e6d19931f1 ] Add the missing @align and @memmap_on_memory fields to kerneldoc comment header for struct dev_dax. Also, some other fields were followed by '-' and others by ':'. Fix all to be ':' for actual kerneldoc compliance. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20260110191804.5739-1-john@groves.net Fixes: 33cf94d71766 ("device-dax: make align a per-device property") Fixes: 4eca0ef49af9 ("dax/kmem: allow kmem to add memory with memmap_on_memory") Signed-off-by: John Groves Cc: Dan Williams Cc: Joao Martins Cc: Vishal Verma Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin

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: warn when kmem regions are truncated for memory block alignment

2025-05-13T06:50:49+00:00

Device capacity intended for use as system ram should be aligned to the architecture-defined memory block size or that capacity will be silently truncated and capacity stranded. As hotplug dax memory becomes more prevelant, the memory block size alignment becomes more important for platform and device vendors to pay attention to - so this truncation should not be silent. This issue is particularly relevant for CXL Dynamic Capacity devices, whose capacity may arrive in spec-aligned but block-misaligned chunks. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250410142831.217887-1-gourry@gourry.net Suggested-by: David Hildenbrand Suggested-by: Dan Williams Reviewed-by: Dan Williams Tested-by: Alison Schofield Reviewed-by: Jonathan Cameron Acked-by: David Hildenbrand Signed-off-by: Gregory Price Cc: Dave Jiang Cc: Vishal Verma Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton

device/dax: properly refcount device dax pages when mapping

2025-03-18T05:06:41+00:00

Device DAX pages are currently not reference counted when mapped, instead relying on the devmap PTE bit to ensure mapping code will not get/put references. This requires special handling in various page table walkers, particularly GUP, to manage references on the underlying pgmap to ensure the pages remain valid. However there is no reason these pages can't be refcounted properly at map time. Doning so eliminates the need for the devmap PTE bit, freeing up a precious PTE bit. It also simplifies GUP as it no longer needs to manage the special pgmap references and can instead just treat the pages normally as defined by vm_normal_page(). Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/968d3a8e9157e7492e85d065765c027e525f9fc9.1740713401.git-series.apopple@nvidia.com Signed-off-by: Alistair Popple Tested-by: Alison Schofield Cc: Alexander Gordeev Cc: Asahi Lina Cc: Balbir Singh Cc: Bjorn Helgaas Cc: Catalin Marinas Cc: Christian Borntraeger Cc: Christoph Hellwig Cc: Chunyan Zhang Cc: Dan Wiliams Cc: "Darrick J. Wong" Cc: Dave Chinner Cc: Dave Hansen Cc: Dave Jiang Cc: David Hildenbrand Cc: Gerald Schaefer Cc: Heiko Carstens Cc: Huacai Chen Cc: Ira Weiny Cc: Jan Kara Cc: Jason Gunthorpe Cc: Jason Gunthorpe Cc: John Hubbard Cc: linmiaohe Cc: Logan Gunthorpe Cc: Matthew Wilcow (Oracle) Cc: Michael "Camp Drill Sergeant" Ellerman Cc: Nicholas Piggin Cc: Peter Xu Cc: Sven Schnelle Cc: Ted Ts'o Cc: Vasily Gorbik Cc: Vishal Verma Cc: Vivek Goyal Cc: WANG Xuerui Cc: Will Deacon Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton

dax: remove access to page->index

2025-03-18T05:06:36+00:00

This looks like a complete mess (why are we setting page->index at page fault time?), but I no longer care about DAX, and there's no reason to let DAX hold us back from removing page->index. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20241216155408.8102-1-willy@infradead.org Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) Reviewed-by: Jane Chu Reviewed-by: Dan Williams Cc: Alistair Popple Cc: Dave Jiang Cc: Vishal Verma Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton

module: Convert symbol namespace to string literal

2024-12-02T19:34:44+00:00

Clean up the existing export namespace code along the same lines of commit 33def8498fdd ("treewide: Convert macro and uses of __section(foo) to __section("foo")") and for the same reason, it is not desired for the namespace argument to be a macro expansion itself. Scripted using git grep -l -e MODULE_IMPORT_NS -e EXPORT_SYMBOL_NS | while read file; do awk -i inplace ' /^#define EXPORT_SYMBOL_NS/ { gsub(/__stringify$ns$/, "ns"); print; next; } /^#define MODULE_IMPORT_NS/ { gsub(/__stringify$ns$/, "ns"); print; next; } /MODULE_IMPORT_NS/ { $0 = gensub(/MODULE_IMPORT_NS$([^)]*)$/, "MODULE_IMPORT_NS(\"\\1\")", "g"); } /EXPORT_SYMBOL_NS/ { if ($0 ~ /(EXPORT_SYMBOL_NS[^(]*)$([^,]+),/) { if ($0 !~ /(EXPORT_SYMBOL_NS[^(]*)\(([^,]+), ([^)]+)$/ && $0 !~ /(EXPORT_SYMBOL_NS[^(]*)/ && $0 !~ /^my/) { getline line; gsub(/[[:space:]]*\\$/, ""); gsub(/[[:space:]]/, "", line); $0 = $0 " " line; } $0 = gensub(/(EXPORT_SYMBOL_NS[^(]*)$([^,]+), ([^)]+)$/, "\\1(\\2, \"\\3\")", "g"); } } { print }' $file; done Requested-by: Masahiro Yamada Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) Link: https://mail.google.com/mail/u/2/#inbox/FMfcgzQXKWgMmjdFwwdsfgxzKpVHWPlc Acked-by: Greg KH Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

Merge tag 'libnvdimm-for-6.13' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/nvdimm/nvdimm

2024-11-26T02:31:48+00:00

Pull nvdimm and DAX updates from Ira Weiny: "Most represent minor cleanups and code removals. One patch fixes potential NULL pointer arithmetic which was benign because the offset of the member was 0. Nevertheless it should be cleaned up. - typo fixes - clarify logic to remove potential NULL pointer math - remove dead code" * tag 'libnvdimm-for-6.13' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/nvdimm/nvdimm: dax: Remove an unused field in struct dax_operations dax: delete a stale directory pmem nvdimm: rectify the illogical code within nd_dax_probe() nvdimm: Correct some typos in comments

dax: delete a stale directory pmem

2024-11-13T18:59:13+00:00

After commit: 83762cb5c7c4 ("dax: Kill DEV_DAX_PMEM_COMPAT") the pmem/ directory is not needed anymore and Makefile changes were made accordingly in this commit, but there is a Makefile and pmem.c in pmem/ which are now stale and pmem.c is empty, remove them. Fixes: 83762cb5c7c4 ("dax: Kill DEV_DAX_PMEM_COMPAT") Suggested-by: Vegard Nossum Signed-off-by: Harshit Mogalapalli Reviewed-by: Dan Williams Reviewed-by: Ira Weiny Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20241017101144.1654085-1-harshit.m.mogalapalli@oracle.com Signed-off-by: Ira Weiny

dax: Document struct dev_dax_range

2024-11-08T16:38:37+00:00

The device DAX structure is being enhanced to track additional DCD information. Specifically the range tuple needs additional parameters. The current range tuple is not fully documented and is large enough to warrant its own definition. Separate the struct dax_dev_range definition and document it prior to adding information for DC. Suggested-by: Jonathan Cameron Reviewed-by: Dave Jiang Reviewed-by: Jonathan Cameron Signed-off-by: Ira Weiny Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20241107-dcd-type2-upstream-v7-3-56a84e66bc36@intel.com Signed-off-by: Dave Jiang