On 2022-09-26 16:18:18, Jeff Moyer wrote: > Tyler Hicks <tyhi...@linux.microsoft.com> writes: > > > The alignment constraint for namespace creation in a region was > > increased, from 2M to 16M, for non-PowerPC architectures in v5.7 with > > commit 2522afb86a8c ("libnvdimm/region: Introduce an 'align' > > attribute"). The thought behind the change was that region alignment > > should be uniform across all architectures and, since PowerPC had the > > largest alignment constraint of 16M, all architectures should conform to > > that alignment. > > > > The change regressed namespace creation in pre-defined regions that > > relied on 2M alignment but a workaround was provided in the form of a > > sysfs attribute, named 'align', that could be adjusted to a non-default > > alignment value. > > > > However, the sysfs attribute's store function returned an error (-ENXIO) > > when userspace attempted to change the alignment of a region that had no > > mappings. This affected 2M aligned regions of volatile memory that were > > defined in a device tree using "pmem-region" and created by the > > of_pmem_region_driver, since those regions do not contain mappings > > (ndr_mappings is 0). > > > > Allow userspace to set the align attribute on pre-existing regions that > > do not have mappings so that namespaces can still be within those > > regions, despite not being aligned to 16M. > > > > Link: > > https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/CA+CK2bDJ3hrWoE91L2wpAk+Yu0_=GtYw=4glddd7mxs321b...@mail.gmail.com > > Fixes: 2522afb86a8c ("libnvdimm/region: Introduce an 'align' attribute") > > Signed-off-by: Tyler Hicks <tyhi...@linux.microsoft.com> > > --- > > > > While testing with a recent kernel release (6.0-rc3), I rediscovered > > this bug and eventually realized that I never followed through with > > fixing it upstream. After a year later, here's the v2 that Aneesh > > requested. Sorry about that! > > > > v2: > > - Included Aneesh's feedback to ensure the val is a power of 2 and > > greater than PAGE_SIZE even for regions without mappings > > - Reused the max_t() trick from default_align() to avoid special > > casing, with an if-else, when regions have mappings and when they > > don't > > + Didn't include Pavel's Reviewed-by since this is a slightly > > different approach than what he reviewed in v1 > > - Added a Link commit tag to Pavel's initial problem description > > v1: > > https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20210326152645.85225-1-tyhi...@linux.microsoft.com/ > > > > drivers/nvdimm/region_devs.c | 8 +++----- > > 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) > > > > diff --git a/drivers/nvdimm/region_devs.c b/drivers/nvdimm/region_devs.c > > index 473a71bbd9c9..550ea0bd6c53 100644 > > --- a/drivers/nvdimm/region_devs.c > > +++ b/drivers/nvdimm/region_devs.c > > @@ -509,16 +509,13 @@ static ssize_t align_store(struct device *dev, > > { > > struct nd_region *nd_region = to_nd_region(dev); > > unsigned long val, dpa; > > - u32 remainder; > > + u32 mappings, remainder; > > int rc; > > > > rc = kstrtoul(buf, 0, &val); > > if (rc) > > return rc; > > > > - if (!nd_region->ndr_mappings) > > - return -ENXIO; > > - > > /* > > * Ensure space-align is evenly divisible by the region > > * interleave-width because the kernel typically has no facility > > @@ -526,7 +523,8 @@ static ssize_t align_store(struct device *dev, > > * contribute to the tail capacity in system-physical-address > > * space for the namespace. > > */ > > - dpa = div_u64_rem(val, nd_region->ndr_mappings, &remainder); > > + mappings = max_t(u32, 1, nd_region->ndr_mappings); > > + dpa = div_u64_rem(val, mappings, &remainder); > > if (!is_power_of_2(dpa) || dpa < PAGE_SIZE > > || val > region_size(nd_region) || remainder) > > return -EINVAL; > > The math all looks okay, and this matches what's done in default_align. > Unfortunately, I don't know enough about the power architecture to > understand how you can have a region with no dimms (ndr_mappings == 0).
Thanks for having a look! FWIW, I need this working on arm64. It previously did before the commit mentioned in the Fixes line. ndr_mappings is 0 when defining a pmem-region in the device tree. The region is also marked as 'volatile' but I don't recall if that contributes to ndr_mappings being 0. Tyler > > -Jeff >