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Date: Tue, 25 Jun 2019 16:37:56 +0100
From: Jonathan Cameron <jonathan.cameron@...wei.com>
To: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@...el.com>
CC: <x86@...nel.org>, Vishal Verma <vishal.l.verma@...el.com>,
Keith Busch <keith.busch@...el.com>,
Dave Jiang <dave.jiang@...el.com>,
"kbuild test robot" <lkp@...el.com>,
Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@...ux.intel.com>,
<peterz@...radead.org>, <ard.biesheuvel@...aro.org>,
<tglx@...utronix.de>, <linux-acpi@...r.kernel.org>,
<linux-nvdimm@...ts.01.org>, <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 08/10] device-dax: Add a driver for "hmem" devices
On Mon, 24 Jun 2019 11:20:16 -0700
Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@...el.com> wrote:
> Platform firmware like EFI/ACPI may publish "hmem" platform devices.
> Such a device is a performance differentiated memory range likely
> reserved for an application specific use case. The driver gives access
> to 100% of the capacity via a device-dax mmap instance by default.
>
> However, if over-subscription and other kernel memory management is
> desired the resulting dax device can be assigned to the core-mm via the
> kmem driver.
>
> This consumes "hmem" devices the producer of "hmem" devices is saved for
> a follow-on patch so that it can reference the new CONFIG_DEV_DAX_HMEM
> symbol to gate performing the enumeration work.
>
> Cc: Vishal Verma <vishal.l.verma@...el.com>
> Cc: Keith Busch <keith.busch@...el.com>
> Cc: Dave Jiang <dave.jiang@...el.com>
> Reported-by: kbuild test robot <lkp@...el.com>
> Reviewed-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@...ux.intel.com>
> Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@...el.com>
No need to have a remove function at all. Otherwise this looks good to me.
Reviewed-by: Jonathan Cameron <Jonathan.Cameron@...wei.com>
> ---
> drivers/dax/Kconfig | 27 +++++++++++++++++++----
> drivers/dax/Makefile | 2 ++
> drivers/dax/hmem.c | 57 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> include/linux/ioport.h | 4 +++
> 4 files changed, 85 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
> create mode 100644 drivers/dax/hmem.c
>
> diff --git a/drivers/dax/Kconfig b/drivers/dax/Kconfig
> index f33c73e4af41..1a59ef86f148 100644
> --- a/drivers/dax/Kconfig
> +++ b/drivers/dax/Kconfig
> @@ -32,19 +32,36 @@ config DEV_DAX_PMEM
>
> Say M if unsure
>
> +config DEV_DAX_HMEM
> + tristate "HMEM DAX: direct access to 'specific purpose' memory"
> + depends on EFI_APPLICATION_RESERVED
> + default DEV_DAX
> + help
> + EFI 2.8 platforms, and others, may advertise 'specific purpose'
> + memory. For example, a high bandwidth memory pool. The
> + indication from platform firmware is meant to reserve the
> + memory from typical usage by default. This driver creates
> + device-dax instances for these memory ranges, and that also
> + enables the possibility to assign them to the DEV_DAX_KMEM
> + driver to override the reservation and add them to kernel
> + "System RAM" pool.
> +
> + 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.
> + Support access to persistent, or other performance
> + differentiated memory as if it were System RAM. This allows
> + easier use of persistent memory by unmodified applications, or
> + adds core kernel memory services to heterogeneous memory types
> + (HMEM) marked "reserved" by platform firmware.
>
> 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.
> + device_dax driver and bound to this kmem driver on each boot.
>
> Say N if unsure.
>
> diff --git a/drivers/dax/Makefile b/drivers/dax/Makefile
> index 81f7d54dadfb..80065b38b3c4 100644
> --- a/drivers/dax/Makefile
> +++ b/drivers/dax/Makefile
> @@ -2,9 +2,11 @@
> obj-$(CONFIG_DAX) += dax.o
> obj-$(CONFIG_DEV_DAX) += device_dax.o
> obj-$(CONFIG_DEV_DAX_KMEM) += kmem.o
> +obj-$(CONFIG_DEV_DAX_HMEM) += dax_hmem.o
>
> dax-y := super.o
> dax-y += bus.o
> device_dax-y := device.o
> +dax_hmem-y := hmem.o
>
> obj-y += pmem/
> diff --git a/drivers/dax/hmem.c b/drivers/dax/hmem.c
> new file mode 100644
> index 000000000000..62f9e3c80e21
> --- /dev/null
> +++ b/drivers/dax/hmem.c
> @@ -0,0 +1,57 @@
> +// SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
> +#include <linux/platform_device.h>
> +#include <linux/ioport.h>
> +#include <linux/module.h>
> +#include <linux/pfn_t.h>
> +#include "bus.h"
> +
> +static int dax_hmem_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
> +{
> + struct dev_pagemap pgmap = { NULL };
> + struct device *dev = &pdev->dev;
> + struct dax_region *dax_region;
> + struct memregion_info *mri;
> + struct dev_dax *dev_dax;
> + struct resource *res;
> +
> + res = platform_get_resource(pdev, IORESOURCE_MEM, 0);
> + if (!res)
> + return -ENOMEM;
> +
> + mri = dev->platform_data;
> + pgmap.dev = dev;
> + memcpy(&pgmap.res, res, sizeof(*res));
> +
> + dax_region = alloc_dax_region(dev, pdev->id, res, mri->target_node,
> + PMD_SIZE, PFN_DEV|PFN_MAP);
> + if (!dax_region)
> + return -ENOMEM;
> +
> + dev_dax = devm_create_dev_dax(dax_region, 0, &pgmap);
> + if (IS_ERR(dev_dax))
> + return PTR_ERR(dev_dax);
> +
> + /* child dev_dax instances now own the lifetime of the dax_region */
> + dax_region_put(dax_region);
> + return 0;
> +}
> +
> +static int dax_hmem_remove(struct platform_device *pdev)
> +{
> + /* devm handles teardown */
> + return 0;
Why have a remove at all? driver/base/platform.c has
the appropriate protections to allow you to not provide one.
If you want the comment, just put it after .probe =
below.
> +}
> +
> +static struct platform_driver dax_hmem_driver = {
> + .probe = dax_hmem_probe,
> + .remove = dax_hmem_remove,
> + .driver = {
> + .name = "hmem",
> + },
> +};
> +
> +module_platform_driver(dax_hmem_driver);
> +
> +MODULE_ALIAS("platform:hmem*");
> +MODULE_LICENSE("GPL v2");
> +MODULE_AUTHOR("Intel Corporation");
> diff --git a/include/linux/ioport.h b/include/linux/ioport.h
> index 72ea690b35a4..0c529c8f8027 100644
> --- a/include/linux/ioport.h
> +++ b/include/linux/ioport.h
> @@ -294,6 +294,10 @@ static inline bool resource_overlaps(struct resource *r1, struct resource *r2)
> }
>
> #ifdef CONFIG_MEMREGION
> +struct memregion_info {
> + int target_node;
> +};
> +
> extern struct ida memregion_ids;
> static inline int memregion_alloc(gfp_t gfp)
> {
>
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