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authorDave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>2019-02-25 10:57:40 -0800
committerDan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>2019-02-28 10:41:23 -0800
commitc221c0b0308fd01d9fb33a16f64d2fd95f8830a4 (patch)
tree39002a87ba4a6db01a511c160a8407c19cb9c393 /drivers/dax
parent2b539aefe9e48e3908cff02699aa63a8b9bd268e (diff)
device-dax: "Hotplug" persistent memory for use like normal RAM
This is intended for use with NVDIMMs that are physically persistent (physically like flash) so that they can be used as a cost-effective RAM replacement. Intel Optane DC persistent memory is one implementation of this kind of NVDIMM. Currently, a persistent memory region is "owned" by a device driver, either the "Direct DAX" or "Filesystem DAX" drivers. These drivers allow applications to explicitly use persistent memory, generally by being modified to use special, new libraries. (DIMM-based persistent memory hardware/software is described in great detail here: Documentation/nvdimm/nvdimm.txt). However, this limits persistent memory use to applications which *have* been modified. To make it more broadly usable, this driver "hotplugs" memory into the kernel, to be managed and used just like normal RAM would be. To make this work, management software must remove the device from being controlled by the "Device DAX" infrastructure: echo dax0.0 > /sys/bus/dax/drivers/device_dax/unbind and then tell the new driver that it can bind to the device: echo dax0.0 > /sys/bus/dax/drivers/kmem/new_id After this, there will be a number of new memory sections visible in sysfs that can be onlined, or that may get onlined by existing udev-initiated memory hotplug rules. This rebinding procedure is currently a one-way trip. Once memory is bound to "kmem", it's there permanently and can not be unbound and assigned back to device_dax. The kmem driver will never bind to a dax device unless the device is *explicitly* bound to the driver. There are two reasons for this: One, since it is a one-way trip, it can not be undone if bound incorrectly. Two, the kmem driver destroys data on the device. Think of if you had good data on a pmem device. It would be catastrophic if you compile-in "kmem", but leave out the "device_dax" driver. kmem would take over the device and write volatile data all over your good data. This inherits any existing NUMA information for the newly-added memory from the persistent memory device that came from the firmware. On Intel platforms, the firmware has guarantees that require each socket's persistent memory to be in a separate memory-only NUMA node. That means that this patch is not expected to create NUMA nodes, but will simply hotplug memory into existing nodes. Because NUMA nodes are created, the existing NUMA APIs and tools are sufficient to create policies for applications or memory areas to have affinity for or an aversion to using this memory. There is currently some metadata at the beginning of pmem regions. The section-size memory hotplug restrictions, plus this small reserved area can cause the "loss" of a section or two of capacity. This should be fixable in follow-on patches. But, as a first step, losing 256MB of memory (worst case) out of hundreds of gigabytes is a good tradeoff vs. the required code to fix this up precisely. This calculation is also the reason we export memory_block_size_bytes(). Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com> Reviewed-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com> Reviewed-by: Keith Busch <keith.busch@intel.com> Cc: Dave Jiang <dave.jiang@intel.com> Cc: Ross Zwisler <zwisler@kernel.org> Cc: Vishal Verma <vishal.l.verma@intel.com> Cc: Tom Lendacky <thomas.lendacky@amd.com> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Cc: linux-nvdimm@lists.01.org Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org Cc: Huang Ying <ying.huang@intel.com> Cc: Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de> Cc: Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@google.com> Cc: Yaowei Bai <baiyaowei@cmss.chinamobile.com> Cc: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de> Cc: Jerome Glisse <jglisse@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Vishal Verma <vishal.l.verma@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/dax')
-rw-r--r--drivers/dax/Kconfig16
-rw-r--r--drivers/dax/Makefile1
-rw-r--r--drivers/dax/kmem.c108
3 files changed, 125 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/dax/Kconfig b/drivers/dax/Kconfig
index 6fc96f03920e..5ef624fe3934 100644
--- a/drivers/dax/Kconfig
+++ b/drivers/dax/Kconfig
@@ -32,6 +32,22 @@ config DEV_DAX_PMEM
Say M if unsure
+config DEV_DAX_KMEM
+ tristate "KMEM DAX: volatile-use of persistent memory"
+ default DEV_DAX
+ depends on DEV_DAX
+ depends on MEMORY_HOTPLUG # for add_memory() and friends
+ help
+ Support access to persistent memory as if it were RAM. This
+ allows easier use of persistent memory by unmodified
+ applications.
+
+ To use this feature, a DAX device must be unbound from the
+ device_dax driver (PMEM DAX) and bound to this kmem driver
+ on each boot.
+
+ Say N if unsure.
+
config DEV_DAX_PMEM_COMPAT
tristate "PMEM DAX: support the deprecated /sys/class/dax interface"
depends on DEV_DAX_PMEM
diff --git a/drivers/dax/Makefile b/drivers/dax/Makefile
index 233bbffccbe6..81f7d54dadfb 100644
--- a/drivers/dax/Makefile
+++ b/drivers/dax/Makefile
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
obj-$(CONFIG_DAX) += dax.o
obj-$(CONFIG_DEV_DAX) += device_dax.o
+obj-$(CONFIG_DEV_DAX_KMEM) += kmem.o
dax-y := super.o
dax-y += bus.o
diff --git a/drivers/dax/kmem.c b/drivers/dax/kmem.c
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..a02318c6d28a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/drivers/dax/kmem.c
@@ -0,0 +1,108 @@
+// SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
+/* Copyright(c) 2016-2019 Intel Corporation. All rights reserved. */
+#include <linux/memremap.h>
+#include <linux/pagemap.h>
+#include <linux/memory.h>
+#include <linux/module.h>
+#include <linux/device.h>
+#include <linux/pfn_t.h>
+#include <linux/slab.h>
+#include <linux/dax.h>
+#include <linux/fs.h>
+#include <linux/mm.h>
+#include <linux/mman.h>
+#include "dax-private.h"
+#include "bus.h"
+
+int dev_dax_kmem_probe(struct device *dev)
+{
+ struct dev_dax *dev_dax = to_dev_dax(dev);
+ struct resource *res = &dev_dax->region->res;
+ resource_size_t kmem_start;
+ resource_size_t kmem_size;
+ resource_size_t kmem_end;
+ struct resource *new_res;
+ int numa_node;
+ int rc;
+
+ /*
+ * Ensure good NUMA information for the persistent memory.
+ * Without this check, there is a risk that slow memory
+ * could be mixed in a node with faster memory, causing
+ * unavoidable performance issues.
+ */
+ numa_node = dev_dax->target_node;
+ if (numa_node < 0) {
+ dev_warn(dev, "rejecting DAX region %pR with invalid node: %d\n",
+ res, numa_node);
+ return -EINVAL;
+ }
+
+ /* Hotplug starting at the beginning of the next block: */
+ kmem_start = ALIGN(res->start, memory_block_size_bytes());
+
+ kmem_size = resource_size(res);
+ /* Adjust the size down to compensate for moving up kmem_start: */
+ kmem_size -= kmem_start - res->start;
+ /* Align the size down to cover only complete blocks: */
+ kmem_size &= ~(memory_block_size_bytes() - 1);
+ kmem_end = kmem_start + kmem_size;
+
+ /* Region is permanently reserved. Hot-remove not yet implemented. */
+ new_res = request_mem_region(kmem_start, kmem_size, dev_name(dev));
+ if (!new_res) {
+ dev_warn(dev, "could not reserve region [%pa-%pa]\n",
+ &kmem_start, &kmem_end);
+ return -EBUSY;
+ }
+
+ /*
+ * Set flags appropriate for System RAM. Leave ..._BUSY clear
+ * so that add_memory() can add a child resource. Do not
+ * inherit flags from the parent since it may set new flags
+ * unknown to us that will break add_memory() below.
+ */
+ new_res->flags = IORESOURCE_SYSTEM_RAM;
+ new_res->name = dev_name(dev);
+
+ rc = add_memory(numa_node, new_res->start, resource_size(new_res));
+ if (rc)
+ return rc;
+
+ return 0;
+}
+
+static int dev_dax_kmem_remove(struct device *dev)
+{
+ /*
+ * Purposely leak the request_mem_region() for the device-dax
+ * range and return '0' to ->remove() attempts. The removal of
+ * the device from the driver always succeeds, but the region
+ * is permanently pinned as reserved by the unreleased
+ * request_mem_region().
+ */
+ return 0;
+}
+
+static struct dax_device_driver device_dax_kmem_driver = {
+ .drv = {
+ .probe = dev_dax_kmem_probe,
+ .remove = dev_dax_kmem_remove,
+ },
+};
+
+static int __init dax_kmem_init(void)
+{
+ return dax_driver_register(&device_dax_kmem_driver);
+}
+
+static void __exit dax_kmem_exit(void)
+{
+ dax_driver_unregister(&device_dax_kmem_driver);
+}
+
+MODULE_AUTHOR("Intel Corporation");
+MODULE_LICENSE("GPL v2");
+module_init(dax_kmem_init);
+module_exit(dax_kmem_exit);
+MODULE_ALIAS_DAX_DEVICE(0);