If an application wants exclusive access to all of the persistent memory
provided by an NVDIMM namespace it can use this raw-block-dax facility
to forgo establishing a filesystem. This capability is targeted
primarily to hypervisors wanting to provision persistent memory for
guests.
Cc: Jan Kara <j...@suse.cz>
Cc: Jeff Moyer <jmo...@redhat.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <h...@lst.de>
Cc: Dave Chinner <da...@fromorbit.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <a...@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Ross Zwisler <ross.zwis...@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.willi...@intel.com>
---
fs/block_dev.c | 54 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
1 file changed, 53 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/fs/block_dev.c b/fs/block_dev.c
index 3255dcec96b4..c27cd1a21a13 100644
--- a/fs/block_dev.c
+++ b/fs/block_dev.c
@@ -1687,13 +1687,65 @@ static const struct address_space_operations
def_blk_aops = {
.is_dirty_writeback = buffer_check_dirty_writeback,
};
+#ifdef CONFIG_FS_DAX
+/*
+ * In the raw block case we do not need to contend with truncation nor
+ * unwritten file extents. Without those concerns there is no need for
+ * additional locking beyond the mmap_sem context that these routines
+ * are already executing under.
+ *
+ * Note, there is no protection if the block device is dynamically
+ * resized (partition grow/shrink) during a fault. A stable block device
+ * size is already not enforced in the blkdev_direct_IO path.
+ *
+ * For DAX, it is the responsibility of the block device driver to
+ * ensure the whole-disk device size is stable while requests are in
+ * flight.
+ *
+ * Finally, these paths do not synchronize against freezing
+ * (sb_start_pagefault(), etc...) since bdev_sops does not support
+ * freezing.
+ */
+static int blkdev_dax_fault(struct vm_area_struct *vma, struct vm_fault *vmf)
+{
+ return __dax_fault(vma, vmf, blkdev_get_block, NULL);
+}
+
+static int blkdev_dax_pmd_fault(struct vm_area_struct *vma, unsigned long addr,
+ pmd_t *pmd, unsigned int flags)
+{
+ return __dax_pmd_fault(vma, addr, pmd, flags, blkdev_get_block, NULL);
+}
+
+static const struct vm_operations_struct blkdev_dax_vm_ops = {
+ .page_mkwrite = blkdev_dax_fault,
+ .fault = blkdev_dax_fault,
+ .pmd_fault = blkdev_dax_pmd_fault,
+};
+
+static int blkdev_mmap(struct file *file, struct vm_area_struct *vma)
+{
+ struct inode *bd_inode = file_bd_inode(file);
+
+ if (!IS_DAX(bd_inode))
+ return generic_file_mmap(file, vma);
+
+ file_accessed(file);
+ vma->vm_ops = &blkdev_dax_vm_ops;
+ vma->vm_flags |= VM_MIXEDMAP | VM_HUGEPAGE;
+ return 0;
+}
+#else
+#define blkdev_mmap generic_file_mmap
+#endif
+
const struct file_operations def_blk_fops = {
.open = blkdev_open,
.release = blkdev_close,
.llseek = block_llseek,
.read_iter = blkdev_read_iter,
.write_iter = blkdev_write_iter,
- .mmap = generic_file_mmap,
+ .mmap = blkdev_mmap,
.fsync = blkdev_fsync,
.unlocked_ioctl = block_ioctl,
#ifdef CONFIG_COMPAT
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