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Vishal Verma 3ae3d67ba7 libnvdimm: add an atomic vs process context flag to rw_bytes
nsio_rw_bytes can clear media errors, but this cannot be done while we
are in an atomic context due to locking within ACPI. From the BTT,
->rw_bytes may be called either from atomic or process context depending
on whether the calls happen during initialization or during IO.

During init, we want to ensure error clearing happens, and the flag
marking process context allows nsio_rw_bytes to do that. When called
during IO, we're in atomic context, and error clearing can be skipped.

Cc: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Vishal Verma <vishal.l.verma@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
2017-05-10 21:46:22 -07:00
Dan Williams 8f078b38dd libnvdimm: convert NDD_ flags to use bitops, introduce NDD_LOCKED
This is a preparation patch for handling locked nvdimm label regions, a
new concept as introduced by the latest DSM document on pmem.io [1]. A
future patch will leverage nvdimm_set_locked() at DIMM probe time to
flag regions that can not be enabled. There should be no functional
difference resulting from this change.

[1]: http://pmem.io/documents/NVDIMM_DSM_Interface_Example-V1.3.pdf

Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
2017-05-04 14:01:24 -07:00
Dave Jiang 6a6bef9042 libnvdimm: add mechanism to publish badblocks at the region level
badblocks sysfs file will be export at region level. When nvdimm event
notifier happens for NVDIMM_REVALIATE_POISON, the badblocks in the
region will be updated.

Signed-off-by: Dave Jiang <dave.jiang@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Johannes Thumshirn <jthumshirn@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
2017-04-12 21:56:42 -07:00
Dan Williams 86ef58a4e3 nfit, libnvdimm: fix interleave set cookie calculation
The interleave-set cookie is a sum that sanity checks the composition of
an interleave set has not changed from when the namespace was initially
created.  The checksum is calculated by sorting the DIMMs by their
location in the interleave-set. The comparison for the sort must be
64-bit wide, not byte-by-byte as performed by memcmp() in the broken
case.

Fix the implementation to accept correct cookie values in addition to
the Linux "memcmp" order cookies, but only allow correct cookies to be
generated going forward. It does mean that namespaces created by
third-party-tooling, or created by newer kernels with this fix, will not
validate on older kernels. However, there are a couple mitigating
conditions:

    1/ platforms with namespace-label capable NVDIMMs are not widely
       available.

    2/ interleave-sets with a single-dimm are by definition not affected
       (nothing to sort). This covers the QEMU-KVM NVDIMM emulation case.

The cookie stored in the namespace label will be fixed by any write the
namespace label, the most straightforward way to achieve this is to
write to the "alt_name" attribute of a namespace in sysfs.

Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Fixes: eaf961536e ("libnvdimm, nfit: add interleave-set state-tracking infrastructure")
Reported-by: Nicholas Moulin <nicholas.w.moulin@linux.intel.com>
Tested-by: Nicholas Moulin <nicholas.w.moulin@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
2017-03-01 00:49:42 -08:00
Dan Williams 42237e393f libnvdimm: allow a platform to force enable label support
Platforms like QEMU-KVM implement an NFIT table and label DSMs.
However, since that environment does not define an aliased
configuration, the labels are currently ignored and the kernel registers
a single full-sized pmem-namespace per region. Now that the kernel
supports sub-divisions of pmem regions the labels have a purpose.
Arrange for the labels to be honored when we find an existing / valid
namespace index block.

Cc: <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>
Cc: Haozhong Zhang <haozhong.zhang@intel.com>
Cc: Xiao Guangrong <guangrong.xiao@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
2016-10-19 08:57:33 -07:00
Toshi Kani 8d7c22ac0c libnvdimm: use generic iostat interfaces
nd_iostat_start() and nd_iostat_end() implement the same functionality
that generic_start_io_acct() and generic_end_io_acct() already provide.

Change nd_iostat_start() and nd_iostat_end() to call the generic iostat
interfaces.  There is no change in the nd interfaces.

Signed-off-by: Toshi Kani <toshi.kani@hpe.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
Cc: Ross Zwisler <ross.zwisler@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
2016-10-19 08:53:26 -07:00
Dan Williams 178d6f4be8 Merge branch 'for-4.9/libnvdimm' into libnvdimm-for-next 2016-10-07 16:46:24 -07:00
Dan Williams ae8219f186 libnvdimm, label: convert label tracking to a linked list
In preparation for enabling multiple namespaces per pmem region, convert
the label tracking to use a linked list.  In particular this will allow
select_pmem_id() to move labels from the unvalidated state to the
validated state.  Currently we only track one validated set per-region.

Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
2016-09-30 19:13:42 -07:00
Dan Williams 44c462eb9e libnvdimm, region: move region-mapping input-paramters to nd_mapping_desc
Before we add more libnvdimm-private fields to nd_mapping make it clear
which parameters are input vs libnvdimm internals. Use struct
nd_mapping_desc instead of struct nd_mapping in nd_region_desc and make
struct nd_mapping private to libnvdimm.

Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
2016-09-30 19:13:42 -07:00
Dan Williams 595c73071e libnvdimm, region: fix flush hint table thinko
The definition of the flush hint table as:

	void __iomem *flush_wpq[0][0];

...passed the unit test, but is broken as flush_wpq[0][1] and
flush_wpq[1][0] refer to the same entry.  Fix this to use a helper that
calculates a slot in the table based on the geometry of flush hints in
the region.  This is important to get right since virtualization
solutions use this mechanism to trigger hypervisor flushes to platform
persistence.

Reported-by: Dave Jiang <dave.jiang@intel.com>
Tested-by: Dave Jiang <dave.jiang@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
2016-09-24 11:45:38 -07:00
Toshi Kani aee6598748 libnvdimm: Fix nvdimm_probe error on NVDIMM-N
'ndctl list --buses --dimms' does not list any NVDIMM-Ns since
they are considered as idle.  ndctl checks if any driver is
attached to nmem device.  nvdimm_probe() always fails in
nvdimm_init_nsarea() since NVDIMM-Ns do not implement optinal
ND_CMD_GET_CONFIG_DATA command.

Change nvdimm_probe() to accept the case that the CONFIG_DATA
command is not implemented for NVDIMM-Ns.  The driver attaches
without ndd, which keeps it no-op to the device.

Reported-by: Brian Boylston <brian.boylston@hpe.com>
Signed-off-by: Toshi Kani <toshi.kani@hpe.com>
Cc: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Tested-by: Johannes Thumshirn <jthumshirn@suse.de>
Acked-by: Johannes Thumshirn <jthumshirn@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
2016-09-01 18:20:39 -07:00
Vishal Verma abe8b4e3ce nvdimm, btt: add a size attribute for BTTs
To be consistent with other namespaces, expose a 'size' attribute for
BTT devices also.

Cc: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Reported-by: Linda Knippers <linda.knippers@hpe.com>
Signed-off-by: Vishal Verma <vishal.l.verma@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
2016-08-08 09:26:14 -07:00
Dan Williams 0c27af60d1 libnvdimm: cycle flush hints
When the NFIT provides multiple flush hint addresses per-dimm it is
expressing that the platform is capable of processing multiple flush
requests in parallel.  There is some fixed cost per flush request, let
the cost be shared in parallel on multiple cpus.

Since there may not be enough flush hint addresses for each cpu to have
one, keep a per-cpu index of the last used hint, hash it with current
pid, and assume that access pattern and scheduler randomness will keep
the flush-hint usage somewhat staggered across cpus.

Cc: Ross Zwisler <ross.zwisler@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
2016-07-11 16:16:03 -07:00
Dan Williams e5ae3b252c libnvdimm, nfit: move flush hint mapping to region-device driver-data
In preparation for triggering flushes of a DIMM's writes-posted-queue
(WPQ) via the pmem driver move mapping of flush hint addresses to the
region driver.  Since this uses devm_nvdimm_memremap() the flush
addresses will remain mapped while any region to which the dimm belongs
is active.

We need to communicate more information to the nvdimm core to facilitate
this mapping, namely each dimm object now carries an array of flush hint
address resources.

Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
2016-07-11 15:09:26 -07:00
Dan Williams a8a6d2e04c libnvdimm, nfit: remove nfit_spa_map() infrastructure
Now that all shared mappings are handled by devm_nvdimm_memremap() we no
longer need nfit_spa_map() nor do we need to trigger a callback to the
bus provider at region disable time.

Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
2016-07-11 15:09:26 -07:00
Dan Williams c5ed926864 libnvdimm, dax: autodetect support
For autodetecting a previously established dax configuration we need the
info block to indicate block-device vs device-dax mode, and we need to
have the default namespace probe hand-off the configuration to the
dax_pmem driver.

Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
2016-05-20 22:02:57 -07:00
Dan Williams cd03412a51 libnvdimm, dax: introduce device-dax infrastructure
Device DAX is the device-centric analogue of Filesystem DAX
(CONFIG_FS_DAX).  It allows persistent memory ranges to be allocated and
mapped without need of an intervening file system.  This initial
infrastructure arranges for a libnvdimm pfn-device to be represented as
a different device-type so that it can be attached to a driver other
than the pmem driver.

Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
2016-05-09 15:35:42 -07:00
Dan Williams ac515c084b libnvdimm, pmem, pfn: move pfn setup to the core
Now that pmem internals have been disentangled from pfn setup, that code
can move to the core.  This is in preparation for adding another user of
the pfn-device capabilities.

Reviewed-by: Johannes Thumshirn <jthumshirn@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
2016-04-22 12:26:23 -07:00
Dan Williams 200c79da82 libnvdimm, pmem, pfn: make pmem_rw_bytes generic and refactor pfn setup
In preparation for providing an alternative (to block device) access
mechanism to persistent memory, convert pmem_rw_bytes() to
nsio_rw_bytes().  This allows ->rw_bytes() functionality without
requiring a 'struct pmem_device' to be instantiated.

In other words, when ->rw_bytes() is in use i/o is driven through
'struct nd_namespace_io', otherwise it is driven through 'struct
pmem_device' and the block layer.  This consolidates the disjoint calls
to devm_exit_badblocks() and devm_memunmap() into a common
devm_nsio_disable() and cleans up the init path to use a unified
pmem_attach_disk() implementation.

Reviewed-by: Johannes Thumshirn <jthumshirn@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
2016-04-22 12:26:23 -07:00
Dan Williams e32bc729a3 libnvdimm, btt, convert nd_btt_probe() to devm
Pass the device performing the probe so we can use a devm allocation for
the btt superblock.

Cc: Vishal Verma <vishal.l.verma@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Johannes Thumshirn <jthumshirn@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
2016-04-22 10:59:54 -07:00
Dan Williams bd032943b5 libnvdimm, pfn, convert nd_pfn_probe() to devm
Pass the device performing the probe so we can use a devm allocation for
the pfn superblock.

Cc: Ross Zwisler <ross.zwisler@linux.intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Johannes Thumshirn <jthumshirn@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
2016-04-22 10:59:54 -07:00
Dan Williams 298f2bc5db libnvdimm, pmem: kill pmem->ndns
We can derive the common namespace from other information.  We also do
not need to cache it because all the usages are in slow paths.

Reviewed-by: Johannes Thumshirn <jthumshirn@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
2016-04-22 10:59:54 -07:00
Dan Williams a390180291 libnvdimm, pfn: fix nvdimm_namespace_add_poison() vs section alignment
When section alignment padding is in effect we need to shift / truncate
the range that is queried for poison by the 'start_pad' or 'end_trunc'
reservations.

It's easiest if we just pass in an adjusted resource range rather than
deriving it from the passed in namespace.  With the resource range
resolution pushed out to the caller we can also push the
namespace-to-region lookup to the caller and drop the implicit pmem-type
assumption about the passed in namespace object.

Cc: Vishal Verma <vishal.l.verma@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
2016-04-07 20:02:06 -07:00
Dan Williams 59e6473980 libnvdimm, pmem: clear poison on write
If a write is directed at a known bad block perform the following:

1/ write the data

2/ send a clear poison command

3/ invalidate the poison out of the cache hierarchy

Cc: <x86@kernel.org>
Cc: Ross Zwisler <ross.zwisler@linux.intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Vishal Verma <vishal.l.verma@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
2016-03-09 15:15:32 -08:00
Dan Williams 719994660c libnvdimm: async notification support
In preparation for asynchronous address range scrub support add an
ability for the pmem driver to dynamically consume address range scrub
results.

Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
2016-03-05 12:24:06 -08:00
Dan Williams 8b63b6bfc1 Merge branch 'for-4.5/block-dax' into for-4.5/libnvdimm 2016-01-10 07:53:55 -08:00
Dan Williams b95f5f4391 libnvdimm: convert to statically allocated badblocks
If a device will ever have badblocks it should always have a badblocks
instance available.  So, similar to md, embed a badblocks instance in
pmem_device.  This reduces pointer chasing in the i/o fast path, and
simplifies the init path.

Reported-by: Vishal Verma <vishal.l.verma@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
2016-01-09 08:39:04 -08:00
Dan Williams ad9a8bde2c libnvdimm, pmem: move definition of nvdimm_namespace_add_poison to nd.h
nd-core.h is private to the libnvdimm core internals and should not be
used by drivers.

Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
2016-01-09 08:39:03 -08:00
Vishal Verma 0caeef63e6 libnvdimm: Add a poison list and export badblocks
During region creation, perform Address Range Scrubs (ARS) for the SPA
(System Physical Address) ranges to retrieve known poison locations from
firmware. Add a new data structure 'nd_poison' which is used as a list
in nvdimm_bus to store these poison locations.

When creating a pmem namespace, if there is any known poison associated
with its physical address space, convert the poison ranges to bad sectors
that are exposed using the badblocks interface.

Signed-off-by: Vishal Verma <vishal.l.verma@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
2016-01-09 08:39:03 -08:00
Dan Williams 315c562536 libnvdimm, pfn: add 'align' attribute, default to HPAGE_SIZE
When setting aside capacity for struct page it must be aligned to the
largest mapping size that is to be made available via DAX.  Make the
alignment configurable to enable support for 1GiB page-size mappings.

The offset for PFN_MODE_RAM may now be larger than SZ_8K, so fixup the
offset check in nvdimm_namespace_attach_pfn().

Reported-by: Toshi Kani <toshi.kani@hpe.com>
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
2015-12-12 15:04:26 -08:00
Dan Williams 9f1e8cee77 libnvdimm, pfn: kill ND_PFN_ALIGN
The alignment constraint isn't necessary now that devm_memremap_pages()
allows for unaligned mappings.

Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
2015-12-10 15:14:20 -08:00
Dan Williams 004f1afbe1 libnvdimm, pmem: direct map legacy pmem by default
The expectation is that the legacy / non-standard pmem discovery method
(e820 type-12) will only ever be used to describe small quantities of
persistent memory.  Larger capacities will be described via the ACPI
NFIT.  When "allocate struct page from pmem" support is added this default
policy can be overridden by assigning a legacy pmem namespace to a pfn
device, however this would be only be necessary if a platform used the
legacy mechanism to define a very large range.

Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
2015-08-28 23:40:05 -04:00
Dan Williams 32ab0a3f51 libnvdimm, pmem: 'struct page' for pmem
Enable the pmem driver to handle PFN device instances.  Attaching a pmem
namespace to a pfn device triggers the driver to allocate and initialize
struct page entries for pmem.  Memory capacity for this allocation comes
exclusively from RAM for now which is suitable for low PMEM to RAM
ratios.  This mechanism will be expanded later for setting an "allocate
from PMEM" policy.

Cc: Boaz Harrosh <boaz@plexistor.com>
Cc: Ross Zwisler <ross.zwisler@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
2015-08-28 23:40:04 -04:00
Dan Williams e1455744b2 libnvdimm, pfn: 'struct page' provider infrastructure
Implement the base infrastructure for libnvdimm PFN devices. Similar to
BTT devices they take a namespace as a backing device and layer
functionality on top. In this case the functionality is reserving space
for an array of 'struct page' entries to be handed out through
pfn_to_page(). For now this is just the basic libnvdimm-device-model for
configuring the base PFN device.

As the namespace claiming mechanism for PFN devices is mostly identical
to BTT devices drivers/nvdimm/claim.c is created to house the common
bits.

Cc: Ross Zwisler <ross.zwisler@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
2015-08-28 23:39:36 -04:00
Vishal Verma 6ec689542b libnvdimm, btt: write and validate parent_uuid
When a BTT is instantiated on a namespace it must validate the namespace
uuid matches the 'parent_uuid' stored in the btt superblock. This
property enforces that changing the namespace UUID invalidates all
former BTT instances on that storage. For "IO namespaces" that don't
have a label or UUID, the parent_uuid is set to zero, and this
validation is skipped. For such cases, old BTTs have to be invalidated
by forcing the namespace to raw mode, and overwriting the BTT info
blocks.

Based on a patch by Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>

Signed-off-by: Vishal Verma <vishal.l.verma@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
2015-08-14 13:43:04 -04:00
Randy Dunlap f6ef5a2a50 nvdimm: fix inline function return type warning
Fix multiple build warnings when CONFIG_BTT is not enabled:

In file included from ../drivers/nvdimm/bus.c:29:0:
../drivers/nvdimm/nd.h:169:15: warning: return type defaults to 'int' [-Wreturn-type]
 static inline nd_btt_probe(struct nd_namespace_common *ndns, void *drvdata)
               ^

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Cc: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Cc: linux-nvdimm@lists.01.org
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
2015-07-31 18:17:09 -04:00
Toshi Kani 41d7a6d637 libnvdimm: Set numa_node to NVDIMM devices
ACPI NFIT table has System Physical Address Range Structure entries that
describe a proximity ID of each range when ACPI_NFIT_PROXIMITY_VALID is
set in the flags.

Change acpi_nfit_register_region() to map a proximity ID to its node ID,
and set it to a new numa_node field of nd_region_desc, which is then
conveyed to the nd_region device.

The device core arranges for btt and namespace devices to inherit their
node from their parent region.

Signed-off-by: Toshi Kani <toshi.kani@hp.com>
[djbw: move set_dev_node() from region.c to bus.c]
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
2015-06-26 11:23:38 -04:00
Dan Williams 5813882094 libnvdimm, nfit: handle unarmed dimms, mark namespaces read-only
Upon detection of an unarmed dimm in a region, arrange for descendant
BTT, PMEM, or BLK instances to be read-only.  A dimm is primarily marked
"unarmed" via flags passed by platform firmware (NFIT).

The flags in the NFIT memory device sub-structure indicate the state of
the data on the nvdimm relative to its energy source or last "flush to
persistence".  For the most part there is nothing the driver can do but
advertise the state of these flags in sysfs and emit a message if
firmware indicates that the contents of the device may be corrupted.
However, for the case of ACPI_NFIT_MEM_ARMED, the driver can arrange for
the block devices incorporating that nvdimm to be marked read-only.
This is a safe default as the data is still available and new writes are
held off until the administrator either forces read-write mode, or the
energy source becomes armed.

A 'read_only' attribute is added to REGION devices to allow for
overriding the default read-only policy of all descendant block devices.

Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
2015-06-26 11:23:38 -04:00
Dan Williams f0dc089ce2 libnvdimm: enable iostat
This is disabled by default as the overhead is prohibitive, but if the
user takes the action to turn it on we'll oblige.

Reviewed-by: Vishal Verma <vishal.l.verma@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
2015-06-26 11:23:38 -04:00
Vishal Verma fcae695737 libnvdimm, blk: add support for blk integrity
Support multiple block sizes (sector + metadata) for nd_blk in the
same way as done for the BTT. Add the idea of an 'internal' lbasize,
which is properly aligned and padded, and store metadata in this space.

Signed-off-by: Vishal Verma <vishal.l.verma@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
2015-06-26 11:23:38 -04:00
Vishal Verma 41cd8b70c3 libnvdimm, btt: add support for blk integrity
Support multiple block sizes (sector + metadata) using the blk integrity
framework. This registers a new integrity template that defines the
protection information tuple size based on the configured metadata size,
and simply acts as a passthrough for protection information generated by
another layer. The metadata is written to the storage as-is, and read back
with each sector.

Signed-off-by: Vishal Verma <vishal.l.verma@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
2015-06-26 11:23:38 -04:00
Ross Zwisler 047fc8a1f9 libnvdimm, nfit, nd_blk: driver for BLK-mode access persistent memory
The libnvdimm implementation handles allocating dimm address space (DPA)
between PMEM and BLK mode interfaces.  After DPA has been allocated from
a BLK-region to a BLK-namespace the nd_blk driver attaches to handle I/O
as a struct bio based block device. Unlike PMEM, BLK is required to
handle platform specific details like mmio register formats and memory
controller interleave.  For this reason the libnvdimm generic nd_blk
driver calls back into the bus provider to carry out the I/O.

This initial implementation handles the BLK interface defined by the
ACPI 6 NFIT [1] and the NVDIMM DSM Interface Example [2] composed from
DCR (dimm control region), BDW (block data window), IDT (interleave
descriptor) NFIT structures and the hardware register format.
[1]: http://www.uefi.org/sites/default/files/resources/ACPI_6.0.pdf
[2]: http://pmem.io/documents/NVDIMM_DSM_Interface_Example.pdf

Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Cc: Boaz Harrosh <boaz@plexistor.com>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Ross Zwisler <ross.zwisler@linux.intel.com>
Acked-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
2015-06-26 11:23:38 -04:00
Vishal Verma 5212e11fde nd_btt: atomic sector updates
BTT stands for Block Translation Table, and is a way to provide power
fail sector atomicity semantics for block devices that have the ability
to perform byte granularity IO. It relies on the capability of libnvdimm
namespace devices to do byte aligned IO.

The BTT works as a stacked blocked device, and reserves a chunk of space
from the backing device for its accounting metadata. It is a bio-based
driver because all IO is done synchronously, and there is no queuing or
asynchronous completions at either the device or the driver level.

The BTT uses 'lanes' to index into various 'on-disk' data structures,
and lanes also act as a synchronization mechanism in case there are more
CPUs than available lanes. We did a comparison between two lane lock
strategies - first where we kept an atomic counter around that tracked
which was the last lane that was used, and 'our' lane was determined by
atomically incrementing that. That way, for the nr_cpus > nr_lanes case,
theoretically, no CPU would be blocked waiting for a lane. The other
strategy was to use the cpu number we're scheduled on to and hash it to
a lane number. Theoretically, this could block an IO that could've
otherwise run using a different, free lane. But some fio workloads
showed that the direct cpu -> lane hash performed faster than tracking
'last lane' - my reasoning is the cache thrash caused by moving the
atomic variable made that approach slower than simply waiting out the
in-progress IO. This supports the conclusion that the driver can be a
very simple bio-based one that does synchronous IOs instead of queuing.

Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Cc: Boaz Harrosh <boaz@plexistor.com>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Cc: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com>
Cc: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
Cc: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
[jmoyer: fix nmi watchdog timeout in btt_map_init]
[jmoyer: move btt initialization to module load path]
[jmoyer: fix memory leak in the btt initialization path]
[jmoyer: Don't overwrite corrupted arenas]
Signed-off-by: Vishal Verma <vishal.l.verma@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
2015-06-26 11:23:38 -04:00
Dan Williams 8c2f7e8658 libnvdimm: infrastructure for btt devices
NVDIMM namespaces, in addition to accepting "struct bio" based requests,
also have the capability to perform byte-aligned accesses.  By default
only the bio/block interface is used.  However, if another driver can
make effective use of the byte-aligned capability it can claim namespace
interface and use the byte-aligned ->rw_bytes() interface.

The BTT driver is the initial first consumer of this mechanism to allow
adding atomic sector update semantics to a pmem or blk namespace.  This
patch is the sysfs infrastructure to allow configuring a BTT instance
for a namespace.  Enabling that BTT and performing i/o is in a
subsequent patch.

Cc: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
2015-06-25 04:20:04 -04:00
Dan Williams f524bf271a libnvdimm: write pmem label set
After 'uuid', 'size', and optionally 'alt_name' have been set to valid
values the labels on the dimms can be updated.

Write procedure is:
1/ Allocate and write new labels in the "next" index
2/ Free the old labels in the working copy
3/ Write the bitmap and the label space on the dimm
4/ Write the index to make the update valid

Label ranges directly mirror the dpa resource values for the given
label_id of the namespace.

Cc: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Acked-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
2015-06-24 21:24:10 -04:00
Dan Williams 1b40e09a12 libnvdimm: blk labels and namespace instantiation
A blk label set describes a namespace comprised of one or more
discontiguous dpa ranges on a single dimm.  They may alias with one or
more pmem interleave sets that include the given dimm.

This is the runtime/volatile configuration infrastructure for sysfs
manipulation of 'alt_name', 'uuid', 'size', and 'sector_size'.  A later
patch will make these settings persistent by writing back the label(s).

Unlike pmem namespaces, multiple blk namespaces can be created per
region.  Once a blk namespace has been created a new seed device
(unconfigured child of a parent blk region) is instantiated.  As long as
a region has 'available_size' != 0 new child namespaces may be created.

Cc: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Acked-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
2015-06-24 21:24:10 -04:00
Dan Williams bf9bccc14c libnvdimm: pmem label sets and namespace instantiation.
A complete label set is a PMEM-label per-dimm per-interleave-set where
all the UUIDs match and the interleave set cookie matches the hosting
interleave set.

Present sysfs attributes for manipulation of a PMEM-namespace's
'alt_name', 'uuid', and 'size' attributes.  A later patch will make
these settings persistent by writing back the label.

Note that PMEM allocations grow forwards from the start of an interleave
set (lowest dimm-physical-address (DPA)).  BLK-namespaces that alias
with a PMEM interleave set will grow allocations backward from the
highest DPA.

Cc: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Acked-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
2015-06-24 21:24:10 -04:00
Dan Williams 4a826c83db libnvdimm: namespace indices: read and validate
This on media label format [1] consists of two index blocks followed by
an array of labels.  None of these structures are ever updated in place.
A sequence number tracks the current active index and the next one to
write, while labels are written to free slots.

    +------------+
    |            |
    |  nsindex0  |
    |            |
    +------------+
    |            |
    |  nsindex1  |
    |            |
    +------------+
    |   label0   |
    +------------+
    |   label1   |
    +------------+
    |            |
     ....nslot...
    |            |
    +------------+
    |   labelN   |
    +------------+

After reading valid labels, store the dpa ranges they claim into
per-dimm resource trees.

[1]: http://pmem.io/documents/NVDIMM_Namespace_Spec.pdf

Cc: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Acked-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
2015-06-24 21:24:10 -04:00
Dan Williams eaf961536e libnvdimm, nfit: add interleave-set state-tracking infrastructure
On platforms that have firmware support for reading/writing per-dimm
label space, a portion of the dimm may be accessible via an interleave
set PMEM mapping in addition to the dimm's BLK (block-data-window
aperture(s)) interface.  A label, stored in a "configuration data
region" on the dimm, disambiguates which dimm addresses are accessed
through which exclusive interface.

Add infrastructure that allows the kernel to block modifications to a
label in the set while any member dimm is active.  Note that this is
meant only for enforcing "no modifications of active labels" via the
coarse ioctl command.  Adding/deleting namespaces from an active
interleave set is always possible via sysfs.

Another aspect of tracking interleave sets is tracking their integrity
when DIMMs in a set are physically re-ordered.  For this purpose we
generate an "interleave-set cookie" that can be recorded in a label and
validated against the current configuration.  It is the bus provider
implementation's responsibility to calculate the interleave set cookie
and attach it to a given region.

Cc: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Cc: <linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Robert Moore <robert.moore@intel.com>
Cc: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
Acked-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Acked-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
2015-06-24 21:24:10 -04:00
Dan Williams 3d88002e4a libnvdimm: support for legacy (non-aliasing) nvdimms
The libnvdimm region driver is an intermediary driver that translates
non-volatile "region"s into "namespace" sub-devices that are surfaced by
persistent memory block-device drivers (PMEM and BLK).

ACPI 6 introduces the concept that a given nvdimm may simultaneously
offer multiple access modes to its media through direct PMEM load/store
access, or windowed BLK mode.  Existing nvdimms mostly implement a PMEM
interface, some offer a BLK-like mode, but never both as ACPI 6 defines.
If an nvdimm is single interfaced, then there is no need for dimm
metadata labels.  For these devices we can take the region boundaries
directly to create a child namespace device (nd_namespace_io).

Acked-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Tested-by: Toshi Kani <toshi.kani@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
2015-06-24 21:24:10 -04:00