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Dan Williams
0731de0dd9 libnvdimm, pfn: move 'memory mode' indication to sysfs
'Memory mode' is defined as the capability of a DAX mapping to be the
source/target of DMA and other "direct I/O" scenarios.  While it
currently requires allocating 'struct page' for each page frame of
persistent memory in the namespace it will not always be the case.  Work
continues on reducing the kernel's dependency on 'struct page'.

Let's not maintain a suffix that is expected to lose meaning over time.
In other words a future 'raw mode' pmem namespace may be as capable as
today's 'memory mode' namespace.  Undo the encoding of the mode in the
device name and leave it to other tooling to determine the mode of the
namespace from its attributes.

Reported-by: Matthew Wilcox <willy@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
2015-12-24 12:20:20 -08:00
Dan Williams
2dc43331e3 libnvdimm, pfn: fix pfn seed creation
Similar to btt, plant a new pfn seed when the existing one is activated.

Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
2015-12-13 11:41:36 -08:00
Dmitry Krivenok
bd26d0d0ce nvdimm: improve diagnosibility of namespaces
In order to bind namespace to the driver user must first
set all mandatory attributes in the following order:
- uuid
- size
- sector_size (for blk namespace only)

If the order is wrong, then user either won't be able to set
the attribute or bind the namespace.

This simple patch improves diagnosibility of common operations
with namespaces by printing some details about the error
instead of failing silently.

Below are examples of error messages (assuming dyndbg is
enabled for nvdimms):

[/]# echo 4194304 > /sys/bus/nd/devices/region5/namespace5.0/size
[  288.372612] nd namespace5.0: __size_store: uuid not set
[  288.374839] nd namespace5.0: size_store: 400000 fail (-6)
sh: write error: No such device or address
[/]#

[/]# echo namespace5.0 > /sys/bus/nd/drivers/nd_blk/bind
[  554.671648] nd_blk namespace5.0: nvdimm_namespace_common_probe: sector size not set
[  554.674688]  ndbus1: nd_blk.probe(namespace5.0) = -19
sh: write error: No such device
[/]#

Signed-off-by: Dmitry V. Krivenok <krivenok.dmitry@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
2015-12-08 16:27:30 -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
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
Toshi Kani
74ae66c3b1 libnvdimm: Add sysfs numa_node to NVDIMM devices
Add support of sysfs 'numa_node' to I/O-related NVDIMM devices
under /sys/bus/nd/devices, regionN, namespaceN.0, and bttN.x.

An example of numa_node values on a 2-socket system with a single
NVDIMM range on each socket is shown below.
  /sys/bus/nd/devices
  |-- btt0.0/numa_node:0
  |-- btt1.0/numa_node:1
  |-- btt1.1/numa_node:1
  |-- namespace0.0/numa_node:0
  |-- namespace1.0/numa_node:1
  |-- region0/numa_node:0
  |-- region1/numa_node:1

These numa_node files are then linked under the block class of
their device names.
  /sys/class/block/pmem0/device/numa_node:0
  /sys/class/block/pmem1s/device/numa_node:1

This enables numactl(8) to accept 'block:' and 'file:' paths of
pmem and btt devices as shown in the examples below.
  numactl --preferred block:pmem0 --show
  numactl --preferred file:/dev/pmem1s --show

Signed-off-by: Toshi Kani <toshi.kani@hp.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
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
0ba1c63489 libnvdimm: write blk label set
After 'uuid', 'size', 'sector_size', and optionally 'alt_name' have been
set to valid values the labels on the dimm can be updated.  The
difference with the pmem case is that blk namespaces are limited to one
dimm and can cover discontiguous ranges in dpa space.

Also, after allocating label slots, it is useful for userspace to know
how many slots are left.  Export this information in sysfs.

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
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
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