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<title>dm linear: fix linear_end_io conditional definition</title>
<updated>2018-10-18T07:16:24+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Damien Le Moal</name>
<email>damien.lemoal@wdc.com</email>
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<published>2018-10-11T02:45:30+00:00</published>
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commit 118aa47c7072bce05fc39bd40a1c0a90caed72ab upstream.

The dm-linear target is independent of the dm-zoned target. For code
requiring support for zoned block devices, use CONFIG_BLK_DEV_ZONED
instead of CONFIG_DM_ZONED.

While at it, similarly to dm linear, also enable the DM_TARGET_ZONED_HM
feature in dm-flakey only if CONFIG_BLK_DEV_ZONED is defined.

Fixes: beb9caac211c1 ("dm linear: eliminate linear_end_io call if CONFIG_DM_ZONED disabled")
Fixes: 0be12c1c7fce7 ("dm linear: add support for zoned block devices")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Damien Le Moal &lt;damien.lemoal@wdc.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer &lt;snitzer@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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<title>dm linear: eliminate linear_end_io call if CONFIG_DM_ZONED disabled</title>
<updated>2018-10-18T07:16:24+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Mike Snitzer</name>
<email>snitzer@redhat.com</email>
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<published>2018-10-10T16:01:55+00:00</published>
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commit beb9caac211c1be1bc118bb62d5cf09c4107e6a5 upstream.

It is best to avoid any extra overhead associated with bio completion.
DM core will indirectly call a DM target's .end_io if it is defined.
In the case of DM linear, there is no need to do so (for every bio that
completes) if CONFIG_DM_ZONED is not enabled.

Avoiding an extra indirect call for every bio completion is very
important for ensuring DM linear doesn't incur more overhead that
further widens the performance gap between dm-linear and raw block
devices.

Fixes: 0be12c1c7fce7 ("dm linear: add support for zoned block devices")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer &lt;snitzer@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'for-4.14/dm-changes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/device-mapper/linux-dm</title>
<updated>2017-09-14T20:43:16+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2017-09-14T20:43:16+00:00</published>
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Pull device mapper updates from Mike Snitzer:

 - Some request-based DM core and DM multipath fixes and cleanups

 - Constify a few variables in DM core and DM integrity

 - Add bufio optimization and checksum failure accounting to DM
   integrity

 - Fix DM integrity to avoid checking integrity of failed reads

 - Fix DM integrity to use init_completion

 - A couple DM log-writes target fixes

 - Simplify DAX flushing by eliminating the unnecessary flush
   abstraction that was stood up for DM's use.

* tag 'for-4.14/dm-changes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/device-mapper/linux-dm:
  dax: remove the pmem_dax_ops-&gt;flush abstraction
  dm integrity: use init_completion instead of COMPLETION_INITIALIZER_ONSTACK
  dm integrity: make blk_integrity_profile structure const
  dm integrity: do not check integrity for failed read operations
  dm log writes: fix &gt;512b sectorsize support
  dm log writes: don't use all the cpu while waiting to log blocks
  dm ioctl: constify ioctl lookup table
  dm: constify argument arrays
  dm integrity: count and display checksum failures
  dm integrity: optimize writing dm-bufio buffers that are partially changed
  dm rq: do not update rq partially in each ending bio
  dm rq: make dm-sq requeuing behavior consistent with dm-mq behavior
  dm mpath: complain about unsupported __multipath_map_bio() return values
  dm mpath: avoid that building with W=1 causes gcc 7 to complain about fall-through
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<title>dax: remove the pmem_dax_ops-&gt;flush abstraction</title>
<updated>2017-09-11T15:00:55+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Mikulas Patocka</name>
<email>mpatocka@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-09-01T01:47:43+00:00</published>
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Commit abebfbe2f731 ("dm: add -&gt;flush() dax operation support") is
buggy. A DM device may be composed of multiple underlying devices and
all of them need to be flushed. That commit just routes the flush
request to the first device and ignores the other devices.

It could be fixed by adding more complex logic to the device mapper. But
there is only one implementation of the method pmem_dax_ops-&gt;flush - that
is pmem_dax_flush() - and it calls arch_wb_cache_pmem(). Consequently, we
don't need the pmem_dax_ops-&gt;flush abstraction at all, we can call
arch_wb_cache_pmem() directly from dax_flush() because dax_dev-&gt;ops-&gt;flush
can't ever reach anything different from arch_wb_cache_pmem().

It should be also pointed out that for some uses of persistent memory it
is needed to flush only a very small amount of data (such as 1 cacheline),
and it would be overkill if we go through that device mapper machinery for
a single flushed cache line.

Fix this by removing the pmem_dax_ops-&gt;flush abstraction and call
arch_wb_cache_pmem() directly from dax_flush(). Also, remove the device
mapper code that forwards the flushes.

Fixes: abebfbe2f731 ("dm: add -&gt;flush() dax operation support")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka &lt;mpatocka@redhat.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Dan Williams &lt;dan.j.williams@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer &lt;snitzer@redhat.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>block: replace bi_bdev with a gendisk pointer and partitions index</title>
<updated>2017-08-23T18:49:55+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Christoph Hellwig</name>
<email>hch@lst.de</email>
</author>
<published>2017-08-23T17:10:32+00:00</published>
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This way we don't need a block_device structure to submit I/O.  The
block_device has different life time rules from the gendisk and
request_queue and is usually only available when the block device node
is open.  Other callers need to explicitly create one (e.g. the lightnvm
passthrough code, or the new nvme multipathing code).

For the actual I/O path all that we need is the gendisk, which exists
once per block device.  But given that the block layer also does
partition remapping we additionally need a partition index, which is
used for said remapping in generic_make_request.

Note that all the block drivers generally want request_queue or
sometimes the gendisk, so this removes a layer of indirection all
over the stack.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
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<title>Merge tag 'libnvdimm-for-4.13' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/nvdimm/nvdimm</title>
<updated>2017-07-07T16:44:06+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2017-07-07T16:44:06+00:00</published>
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Pull libnvdimm updates from Dan Williams:
 "libnvdimm updates for the latest ACPI and UEFI specifications. This
  pull request also includes new 'struct dax_operations' enabling to
  undo the abuse of copy_user_nocache() for copy operations to pmem.

  The dax work originally missed 4.12 to address concerns raised by Al.

  Summary:

   - Introduce the _flushcache() family of memory copy helpers and use
     them for persistent memory write operations on x86. The
     _flushcache() semantic indicates that the cache is either bypassed
     for the copy operation (movnt) or any lines dirtied by the copy
     operation are written back (clwb, clflushopt, or clflush).

   - Extend dax_operations with -&gt;copy_from_iter() and -&gt;flush()
     operations. These operations and other infrastructure updates allow
     all persistent memory specific dax functionality to be pushed into
     libnvdimm and the pmem driver directly. It also allows dax-specific
     sysfs attributes to be linked to a host device, for example:
     /sys/block/pmem0/dax/write_cache

   - Add support for the new NVDIMM platform/firmware mechanisms
     introduced in ACPI 6.2 and UEFI 2.7. This support includes the v1.2
     namespace label format, extensions to the address-range-scrub
     command set, new error injection commands, and a new BTT
     (block-translation-table) layout. These updates support inter-OS
     and pre-OS compatibility.

   - Fix a longstanding memory corruption bug in nfit_test.

   - Make the pmem and nvdimm-region 'badblocks' sysfs files poll(2)
     capable.

   - Miscellaneous fixes and small updates across libnvdimm and the nfit
     driver.

  Acknowledgements that came after the branch was pushed: commit
  6aa734a2f38e ("libnvdimm, region, pmem: fix 'badblocks'
  sysfs_get_dirent() reference lifetime") was reviewed by Toshi Kani
  &lt;toshi.kani@hpe.com&gt;"

* tag 'libnvdimm-for-4.13' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/nvdimm/nvdimm: (42 commits)
  libnvdimm, namespace: record 'lbasize' for pmem namespaces
  acpi/nfit: Issue Start ARS to retrieve existing records
  libnvdimm: New ACPI 6.2 DSM functions
  acpi, nfit: Show bus_dsm_mask in sysfs
  libnvdimm, acpi, nfit: Add bus level dsm mask for pass thru.
  acpi, nfit: Enable DSM pass thru for root functions.
  libnvdimm: passthru functions clear to send
  libnvdimm, btt: convert some info messages to warn/err
  libnvdimm, region, pmem: fix 'badblocks' sysfs_get_dirent() reference lifetime
  libnvdimm: fix the clear-error check in nsio_rw_bytes
  libnvdimm, btt: fix btt_rw_page not returning errors
  acpi, nfit: quiet invalid block-aperture-region warnings
  libnvdimm, btt: BTT updates for UEFI 2.7 format
  acpi, nfit: constify *_attribute_group
  libnvdimm, pmem: disable dax flushing when pmem is fronting a volatile region
  libnvdimm, pmem, dax: export a cache control attribute
  dax: convert to bitmask for flags
  dax: remove default copy_from_iter fallback
  libnvdimm, nfit: enable support for volatile ranges
  libnvdimm, pmem: fix persistence warning
  ...
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<entry>
<title>dm linear: add support for zoned block devices</title>
<updated>2017-06-19T15:03:51+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Damien Le Moal</name>
<email>damien.lemoal@wdc.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-05-08T23:40:50+00:00</published>
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Add support for zoned block devices by allowing host-managed zoned block
device mapped targets, the remapping of REQ_OP_ZONE_RESET and the post
processing (reply remapping) of REQ_OP_ZONE_REPORT.

Signed-off-by: Damien Le Moal &lt;damien.lemoal@wdc.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Hannes Reinecke &lt;hare@suse.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Bart Van Assche &lt;bart.vanassche@sandisk.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer &lt;snitzer@redhat.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>dm: add -&gt;flush() dax operation support</title>
<updated>2017-06-15T21:34:59+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Dan Williams</name>
<email>dan.j.williams@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-05-29T20:02:52+00:00</published>
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Allow device-mapper to route flush operations to the
per-target implementation. In order for the device stacking to work we
need a dax_dev and a pgoff relative to that device. This gives each
layer of the stack the information it needs to look up the operation
pointer for the next level.

This conceptually allows for an array of mixed device drivers with
varying flush implementations.

Reviewed-by: Toshi Kani &lt;toshi.kani@hpe.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Mike Snitzer &lt;snitzer@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams &lt;dan.j.williams@intel.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>dm: add -&gt;copy_from_iter() dax operation support</title>
<updated>2017-06-09T16:22:21+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Dan Williams</name>
<email>dan.j.williams@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-05-29T19:57:56+00:00</published>
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Allow device-mapper to route copy_from_iter operations to the
per-target implementation. In order for the device stacking to work we
need a dax_dev and a pgoff relative to that device. This gives each
layer of the stack the information it needs to look up the operation
pointer for the next level.

This conceptually allows for an array of mixed device drivers with
varying copy_from_iter implementations.

Reviewed-by: Toshi Kani &lt;toshi.kani@hpe.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Mike Snitzer &lt;snitzer@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams &lt;dan.j.williams@intel.com&gt;
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<title>Merge tag 'libnvdimm-for-4.12' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/nvdimm/nvdimm</title>
<updated>2017-05-06T01:49:20+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2017-05-06T01:49:20+00:00</published>
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Pull libnvdimm updates from Dan Williams:
 "The bulk of this has been in multiple -next releases. There were a few
  late breaking fixes and small features that got added in the last
  couple days, but the whole set has received a build success
  notification from the kbuild robot.

  Change summary:

   - Region media error reporting: A libnvdimm region device is the
     parent to one or more namespaces. To date, media errors have been
     reported via the "badblocks" attribute attached to pmem block
     devices for namespaces in "raw" or "memory" mode. Given that
     namespaces can be in "device-dax" or "btt-sector" mode this new
     interface reports media errors generically, i.e. independent of
     namespace modes or state.

     This subsequently allows userspace tooling to craft "ACPI 6.1
     Section 9.20.7.6 Function Index 4 - Clear Uncorrectable Error"
     requests and submit them via the ioctl path for NVDIMM root bus
     devices.

   - Introduce 'struct dax_device' and 'struct dax_operations': Prompted
     by a request from Linus and feedback from Christoph this allows for
     dax capable drivers to publish their own custom dax operations.
     This fixes the broken assumption that all dax operations are
     related to a persistent memory device, and makes it easier for
     other architectures and platforms to add customized persistent
     memory support.

   - 'libnvdimm' core updates: A new "deep_flush" sysfs attribute is
     available for storage appliance applications to manually trigger
     memory controllers to drain write-pending buffers that would
     otherwise be flushed automatically by the platform ADR
     (asynchronous-DRAM-refresh) mechanism at a power loss event.
     Support for "locked" DIMMs is included to prevent namespaces from
     surfacing when the namespace label data area is locked. Finally,
     fixes for various reported deadlocks and crashes, also tagged for
     -stable.

   - ACPI / nfit driver updates: General updates of the nfit driver to
     add DSM command overrides, ACPI 6.1 health state flags support, DSM
     payload debug available by default, and various fixes.

  Acknowledgements that came after the branch was pushed:

   - commmit 565851c972b5 "device-dax: fix sysfs attribute deadlock":
     Tested-by: Yi Zhang &lt;yizhan@redhat.com&gt;

   - commit 23f498448362 "libnvdimm: rework region badblocks clearing"
     Tested-by: Toshi Kani &lt;toshi.kani@hpe.com&gt;"

* tag 'libnvdimm-for-4.12' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/nvdimm/nvdimm: (52 commits)
  libnvdimm, pfn: fix 'npfns' vs section alignment
  libnvdimm: handle locked label storage areas
  libnvdimm: convert NDD_ flags to use bitops, introduce NDD_LOCKED
  brd: fix uninitialized use of brd-&gt;dax_dev
  block, dax: use correct format string in bdev_dax_supported
  device-dax: fix sysfs attribute deadlock
  libnvdimm: restore "libnvdimm: band aid btt vs clear poison locking"
  libnvdimm: fix nvdimm_bus_lock() vs device_lock() ordering
  libnvdimm: rework region badblocks clearing
  acpi, nfit: kill ACPI_NFIT_DEBUG
  libnvdimm: fix clear length of nvdimm_forget_poison()
  libnvdimm, pmem: fix a NULL pointer BUG in nd_pmem_notify
  libnvdimm, region: sysfs trigger for nvdimm_flush()
  libnvdimm: fix phys_addr for nvdimm_clear_poison
  x86, dax, pmem: remove indirection around memcpy_from_pmem()
  block: remove block_device_operations -&gt;direct_access()
  block, dax: convert bdev_dax_supported() to dax_direct_access()
  filesystem-dax: convert to dax_direct_access()
  Revert "block: use DAX for partition table reads"
  ext2, ext4, xfs: retrieve dax_device for iomap operations
  ...
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