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@ 2018-05-04  0:06 Dan Williams
  2018-05-04  0:06 ` [PATCH v3 1/9] x86, memcpy_mcsafe: remove loop unrolling Dan Williams
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  0 siblings, 9 replies; 17+ messages in thread
From: Dan Williams @ 2018-05-04  0:06 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: linux-nvdimm
  Cc: Tony Luck, Mika Penttilä,
	Peter Zijlstra, Linus Torvalds, Borislav Petkov, Mike Snitzer,
	x86, Thomas Gleixner, Christoph Hellwig, Ross Zwisler,
	Andy Lutomirski, Ingo Molnar, Al Viro, Andrew Morton,
	linux-kernel, tony.luck, linux-fsdevel

Changes since v2 [1]:

* Fix source address increment in mcsafe_handle_tail() (Mika)

* Extend the unit test to inject simulated write faults and validate
  that data is properly transferred.

* Rename MCSAFE_DEBUG to MCSAFE_TEST

[1]: https://lists.01.org/pipermail/linux-nvdimm/2018-May/015583.html

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Currently memcpy_mcsafe() is only deployed in the pmem driver when
reading through a /dev/pmemX block device. However, a filesystem in dax
mode mounted on a /dev/pmemX block device will bypass the block layer
and the driver for reads. The filesystem-dax (fsdax) read case uses
dax_direct_access() and copy_to_iter() to bypass the block layer.

The result of the bypass is that the kernel treats machine checks during
read as system fatal (reboot) when they could simply be flagged as an
I/O error, similar to performing reads through the pmem driver. Prevent
this fatal condition by deploying memcpy_mcsafe() in the fsdax read
path.

The main differences between this copy_to_user_mcsafe() and
copy_user_generic_unrolled() are:

* Typical tail/residue handling after a fault retries the copy
  byte-by-byte until the fault happens again. Re-triggering machine
  checks is potentially fatal so the implementation uses source alignment
  and poison alignment assumptions to avoid re-triggering machine
  checks.

* SMAP coordination is handled external to the assembly with
  __uaccess_begin() and __uaccess_end().

* ITER_KVEC and ITER_BVEC can now end prematurely with an error.

The new MCSAFE_TEST facility is proposed as a way to unit test the
exception handling without requiring an ACPI EINJ capable platform.

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Dan Williams (9):
      x86, memcpy_mcsafe: remove loop unrolling
      x86, memcpy_mcsafe: add labels for write fault handling
      x86, memcpy_mcsafe: return bytes remaining
      x86, memcpy_mcsafe: add write-protection-fault handling
      x86, memcpy_mcsafe: define copy_to_iter_mcsafe()
      dax: introduce a ->copy_to_iter dax operation
      dax: report bytes remaining in dax_iomap_actor()
      pmem: switch to copy_to_iter_mcsafe()
      x86, nfit_test: unit test for memcpy_mcsafe()


 arch/x86/Kconfig                   |    1 
 arch/x86/Kconfig.debug             |    3 +
 arch/x86/include/asm/mcsafe_test.h |   75 ++++++++++++++++++++++++
 arch/x86/include/asm/string_64.h   |   10 ++-
 arch/x86/include/asm/uaccess_64.h  |   14 +++++
 arch/x86/lib/memcpy_64.S           |  112 +++++++++++++++++-------------------
 arch/x86/lib/usercopy_64.c         |   21 +++++++
 drivers/dax/super.c                |   10 +++
 drivers/md/dm-linear.c             |   16 +++++
 drivers/md/dm-log-writes.c         |   15 +++++
 drivers/md/dm-stripe.c             |   21 +++++++
 drivers/md/dm.c                    |   25 ++++++++
 drivers/nvdimm/claim.c             |    3 +
 drivers/nvdimm/pmem.c              |   13 +++-
 drivers/s390/block/dcssblk.c       |    7 ++
 fs/dax.c                           |   21 ++++---
 include/linux/dax.h                |    5 ++
 include/linux/device-mapper.h      |    5 +-
 include/linux/string.h             |    4 +
 include/linux/uio.h                |   15 +++++
 lib/iov_iter.c                     |   61 ++++++++++++++++++++
 tools/testing/nvdimm/test/nfit.c   |  104 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 22 files changed, 482 insertions(+), 79 deletions(-)
 create mode 100644 arch/x86/include/asm/mcsafe_test.h

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2018-05-23 16:13   ` Ross Zwisler
2018-05-04  0:06 ` [PATCH v3 7/9] dax: report bytes remaining in dax_iomap_actor() Dan Williams
2018-05-23 16:34   ` Ross Zwisler
2018-05-23 16:39     ` Dan Williams
2018-05-23 16:47       ` Ross Zwisler
2018-05-23 16:53         ` Dan Williams
2018-05-23 17:04           ` Ross Zwisler
2018-05-04  0:06 ` [PATCH v3 8/9] pmem: switch to copy_to_iter_mcsafe() Dan Williams
2018-05-23 16:35   ` Ross Zwisler
2018-05-04  0:06 ` [PATCH v3 9/9] x86, nfit_test: unit test for memcpy_mcsafe() Dan Williams

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