linux/drivers
Linus Torvalds f67e3fb489 device-dax for 5.1
* Replace the /sys/class/dax device model with /sys/bus/dax, and include
   a compat driver so distributions can opt-in to the new ABI.
 
 * Allow for an alternative driver for the device-dax address-range
 
 * Introduce the 'kmem' driver to hotplug / assign a device-dax
   address-range to the core-mm.
 
 * Arrange for the device-dax target-node to be onlined so that the newly
   added memory range can be uniquely referenced by numa apis.
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Merge tag 'devdax-for-5.1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/nvdimm/nvdimm

Pull device-dax updates from Dan Williams:
 "New device-dax infrastructure to allow persistent memory and other
  "reserved" / performance differentiated memories, to be assigned to
  the core-mm as "System RAM".

  Some users want to use persistent memory as additional volatile
  memory. They are willing to cope with potential performance
  differences, for example between DRAM and 3D Xpoint, and want to use
  typical Linux memory management apis rather than a userspace memory
  allocator layered over an mmap() of a dax file. The administration
  model is to decide how much Persistent Memory (pmem) to use as System
  RAM, create a device-dax-mode namespace of that size, and then assign
  it to the core-mm. The rationale for device-dax is that it is a
  generic memory-mapping driver that can be layered over any "special
  purpose" memory, not just pmem. On subsequent boots udev rules can be
  used to restore the memory assignment.

  One implication of using pmem as RAM is that mlock() no longer keeps
  data off persistent media. For this reason it is recommended to enable
  NVDIMM Security (previously merged for 5.0) to encrypt pmem contents
  at rest. We considered making this recommendation an actively enforced
  requirement, but in the end decided to leave it as a distribution /
  administrator policy to allow for emulation and test environments that
  lack security capable NVDIMMs.

  Summary:

   - Replace the /sys/class/dax device model with /sys/bus/dax, and
     include a compat driver so distributions can opt-in to the new ABI.

   - Allow for an alternative driver for the device-dax address-range

   - Introduce the 'kmem' driver to hotplug / assign a device-dax
     address-range to the core-mm.

   - Arrange for the device-dax target-node to be onlined so that the
     newly added memory range can be uniquely referenced by numa apis"

NOTE! I'm not entirely happy with the whole "PMEM as RAM" model because
we currently have special - and very annoying rules in the kernel about
accessing PMEM only with the "MC safe" accessors, because machine checks
inside the regular repeat string copy functions can be fatal in some
(not described) circumstances.

And apparently the PMEM modules can cause that a lot more than regular
RAM.  The argument is that this happens because PMEM doesn't necessarily
get scrubbed at boot like RAM does, but that is planned to be added for
the user space tooling.

Quoting Dan from another email:
 "The exposure can be reduced in the volatile-RAM case by scanning for
  and clearing errors before it is onlined as RAM. The userspace tooling
  for that can be in place before v5.1-final. There's also runtime
  notifications of errors via acpi_nfit_uc_error_notify() from
  background scrubbers on the DIMM devices. With that mechanism the
  kernel could proactively clear newly discovered poison in the volatile
  case, but that would be additional development more suitable for v5.2.

  I understand the concern, and the need to highlight this issue by
  tapping the brakes on feature development, but I don't see PMEM as RAM
  making the situation worse when the exposure is also there via DAX in
  the PMEM case. Volatile-RAM is arguably a safer use case since it's
  possible to repair pages where the persistent case needs active
  application coordination"

* tag 'devdax-for-5.1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/nvdimm/nvdimm:
  device-dax: "Hotplug" persistent memory for use like normal RAM
  mm/resource: Let walk_system_ram_range() search child resources
  mm/memory-hotplug: Allow memory resources to be children
  mm/resource: Move HMM pr_debug() deeper into resource code
  mm/resource: Return real error codes from walk failures
  device-dax: Add a 'modalias' attribute to DAX 'bus' devices
  device-dax: Add a 'target_node' attribute
  device-dax: Auto-bind device after successful new_id
  acpi/nfit, device-dax: Identify differentiated memory with a unique numa-node
  device-dax: Add /sys/class/dax backwards compatibility
  device-dax: Add support for a dax override driver
  device-dax: Move resource pinning+mapping into the common driver
  device-dax: Introduce bus + driver model
  device-dax: Start defining a dax bus model
  device-dax: Remove multi-resource infrastructure
  device-dax: Kill dax_region base
  device-dax: Kill dax_region ida
2019-03-16 13:05:32 -07:00
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accessibility
acpi device-dax for 5.1 2019-03-16 13:05:32 -07:00
amba ARM: 8836/1: drivers: amba: Update component matching to use the CoreSight UCI values. 2019-02-26 11:23:49 +00:00
android
ata SCSI misc on 20190306 2019-03-09 16:53:47 -08:00
atm
auxdisplay
base device-dax for 5.1 2019-03-16 13:05:32 -07:00
bcma
block for-5.1/block-post-20190315 2019-03-16 12:36:39 -07:00
bluetooth Bluetooth: mediatek: add support for MediaTek MT7663U and MT7668U UART devices 2019-03-02 19:51:23 +01:00
bus ARM: SoC driver updates for 5.1 2019-03-06 09:41:12 -08:00
cdrom
char Merge branch 'next-tpm' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jmorris/linux-security 2019-03-10 17:37:29 -07:00
clk We have a fairly balanced mix of clk driver updates and clk framework 2019-03-14 08:46:17 -07:00
clocksource ARM: some cleanups, direct physical timer assignment, cache sanitization 2019-03-15 15:00:28 -07:00
connector connector: fix unsafe usage of ->real_parent 2019-03-08 15:06:38 -08:00
cpufreq cpufreq: intel_pstate: Fix up iowait_boost computation 2019-03-12 09:47:30 +01:00
cpuidle cpuidle: governor: Add new governors to cpuidle_governors again 2019-03-12 23:46:55 +01:00
crypto Merge branch 'linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/herbert/crypto-2.6 2019-03-13 09:51:17 -07:00
dax device-dax for 5.1 2019-03-16 13:05:32 -07:00
dca
devfreq
dio
dma dmaengine updates for v5.1-rc1 2019-03-14 09:11:54 -07:00
dma-buf
edac Merge branch 'ras-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2019-03-08 09:11:39 -08:00
eisa
extcon
firewire
firmware memblock: drop memblock_alloc_*_nopanic() variants 2019-03-12 10:04:02 -07:00
fmc
fpga
fsi
gnss
gpio pci-v5.1-changes 2019-03-09 14:57:08 -08:00
gpu drm i915, amdgpu, qxl and etnaviv fixes 2019-03-15 13:58:35 -07:00
hid Merge branch 'for-5.1/wacom' into for-linus 2019-03-05 15:43:05 +01:00
hsi
hv Char/Misc driver patches for 5.1-rc1 2019-03-06 14:18:59 -08:00
hwmon hwmon: (ad7418) Add device tree probing 2019-02-25 09:06:00 -08:00
hwspinlock
hwtracing ARM updates for 5.1-rc1 2019-03-15 14:37:46 -07:00
i2c i2c: i2c-designware-platdrv: Always use a dynamic adapter number 2019-03-13 18:07:10 +01:00
i3c - Add a /* fall-through */ comment in the dw-i3c-master driver 2019-03-04 19:05:02 -08:00
ide Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/ide 2019-03-11 09:34:00 -07:00
idle
iio - New Drivers 2019-03-08 10:02:58 -08:00
infiniband XArray updates for 5.1-rc1 2019-03-11 20:06:18 -07:00
input Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dtor/input 2019-03-11 10:57:11 -07:00
interconnect
iommu IOMMU Fix for Linux v5.1-rc1 2019-03-15 14:41:30 -07:00
ipack
irqchip arm64 updates for 5.1: 2019-03-10 10:17:23 -07:00
isdn isdn: hfcpci: fix potential NULL pointer dereference 2019-03-12 14:36:02 -07:00
leds platform-drivers-x86 for v5.1-1 2019-03-10 13:16:37 -07:00
lightnvm pblk: fix max_io calculation 2019-03-07 08:59:26 -07:00
macintosh treewide: add checks for the return value of memblock_alloc*() 2019-03-12 10:04:02 -07:00
mailbox mailbox: imx: keep MU irq working during suspend/resume 2019-03-11 02:51:43 -05:00
mcb
md for-5.1/block-post-20190315 2019-03-16 12:36:39 -07:00
media DMA mapping updates for 5.1 2019-03-10 11:54:48 -07:00
memory
memstick
message
mfd DMA mapping updates for 5.1 2019-03-10 11:54:48 -07:00
misc 5.1 Merge Window Pull Request 2019-03-09 15:53:03 -08:00
mmc for-5.1/block-20190302 2019-03-08 14:12:17 -08:00
mtd This pull request contains updates for both UBI and UBIFS: 2019-03-13 09:34:35 -07:00
mux
net Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net 2019-03-14 09:28:12 -07:00
nfc
ntb Fixes for switchtec debugability and mapping table entries, NTB 2019-03-15 14:32:59 -07:00
nubus
nvdimm device-dax for 5.1 2019-03-16 13:05:32 -07:00
nvme for-5.1/block-post-20190315 2019-03-16 12:36:39 -07:00
nvmem Char/Misc driver patches for 5.1-rc1 2019-03-06 14:18:59 -08:00
of of: fix kmemleak crash caused by imbalance in early memory reservation 2019-03-12 10:04:02 -07:00
opp PM / OPP: Update performance state when freq == old_freq 2019-03-12 09:45:56 +01:00
oprofile
parisc DMA mapping updates for 5.1 2019-03-10 11:54:48 -07:00
parport
pci IOMMU Updates for Linux v5.1 2019-03-10 12:29:52 -07:00
pcmcia
perf arm64 updates for 5.1: 2019-03-10 10:17:23 -07:00
phy drm next pull request for 5.1 2019-03-08 08:23:15 -08:00
pinctrl This is the bulk of pin control changes for the v5.1 kernel cycle. 2019-03-11 11:12:50 -07:00
platform chrome platform changes for v5.1 2019-03-12 09:46:32 -07:00
pnp ACPI/ACPICA: Trivial: fix spelling mistakes and fix whitespace formatting 2019-02-24 21:12:01 +01:00
power
powercap
pps
ps3
ptp Merge branch 'timers-2038-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2019-03-05 14:08:26 -08:00
pwm pwm: atmel: Remove useless symbolic definitions 2019-03-04 12:52:49 +01:00
rapidio rapidio/mport_cdev: mark expected switch fall-through 2019-03-07 18:32:02 -08:00
ras
regulator regulator: mc13xxx: Constify regulator_ops variables 2019-03-04 00:01:08 +00:00
remoteproc remoteproc updates for v5.1 2019-03-14 09:00:06 -07:00
reset
rpmsg
rtc chrome platform changes for v5.1 2019-03-12 09:46:32 -07:00
s390 ARM: some cleanups, direct physical timer assignment, cache sanitization 2019-03-15 15:00:28 -07:00
sbus
scsi SCSI misc on 20190315 2019-03-16 12:51:50 -07:00
sfi
sh
siox
slimbus
sn
soc ARM: SoC driver updates for 5.1 2019-03-06 09:41:12 -08:00
soundwire
spi pci-v5.1-changes 2019-03-09 14:57:08 -08:00
spmi
ssb
staging media updates for v5.1-rc1 2019-03-09 14:45:54 -08:00
target SCSI misc on 20190315 2019-03-16 12:51:50 -07:00
tc
tee ARM: SoC driver updates for 5.1 2019-03-06 09:41:12 -08:00
thermal Merge branch 'linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/evalenti/linux-soc-thermal 2019-03-08 09:52:41 -08:00
thunderbolt
tty dmaengine updates for v5.1-rc1 2019-03-14 09:11:54 -07:00
uio
usb memblock: drop memblock_alloc_*_nopanic() variants 2019-03-12 10:04:02 -07:00
uwb
vfio powerpc updates for 5.1 2019-03-07 12:56:26 -08:00
vhost virtio: fixes, cleanups 2019-03-10 12:47:57 -07:00
video fbdev changes for v5.1: 2019-03-15 14:22:59 -07:00
virt virt: vbox: Mark expected switch fall-through 2019-02-27 16:00:20 +01:00
virtio virtio: hint if callbacks surprisingly might sleep 2019-03-06 11:19:57 -05:00
visorbus
vlynq
vme
w1
watchdog linux-watchdog 5.1-rc1 tag 2019-03-11 11:22:15 -07:00
xen Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew) 2019-03-12 10:39:53 -07:00
zorro
Kconfig
Makefile IOMMU Updates for Linux v5.1 2019-03-10 12:29:52 -07:00