* DAX filesystem support on ARMv8
@ 2019-11-12 2:12 Bharat Kumar Gogada
2019-11-12 9:49 ` Jan Kara
2019-11-12 17:15 ` Dan Williams
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From: Bharat Kumar Gogada @ 2019-11-12 2:12 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: linux-nvdimm, linux-fsdevel, linux-kernel; +Cc: willy, viro, jack
Hi All,
As per Documentation/filesystems/dax.txt
The DAX code does not work correctly on architectures which have virtually
mapped caches such as ARM, MIPS and SPARC.
Can anyone please shed light on dax filesystem issue w.r.t ARM architecture ?
Regards,
Bharat
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* Re: DAX filesystem support on ARMv8
2019-11-12 2:12 DAX filesystem support on ARMv8 Bharat Kumar Gogada
@ 2019-11-12 9:49 ` Jan Kara
2019-11-12 17:15 ` Dan Williams
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From: Jan Kara @ 2019-11-12 9:49 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Bharat Kumar Gogada
Cc: linux-nvdimm, linux-fsdevel, linux-kernel, willy, viro, jack
Hi!
On Tue 12-11-19 02:12:09, Bharat Kumar Gogada wrote:
> As per Documentation/filesystems/dax.txt
>
> The DAX code does not work correctly on architectures which have virtually
> mapped caches such as ARM, MIPS and SPARC.
>
> Can anyone please shed light on dax filesystem issue w.r.t ARM architecture ?
I've CCed Dan, he might have idea what that comment means :)
Out of curiosity, why do you care?
Honza
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* Re: DAX filesystem support on ARMv8
2019-11-12 2:12 DAX filesystem support on ARMv8 Bharat Kumar Gogada
2019-11-12 9:49 ` Jan Kara
@ 2019-11-12 17:15 ` Dan Williams
2019-11-12 22:02 ` Matthew Wilcox
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From: Dan Williams @ 2019-11-12 17:15 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Bharat Kumar Gogada
Cc: linux-nvdimm, linux-fsdevel, linux-kernel, willy, viro, jack
On Mon, Nov 11, 2019 at 6:12 PM Bharat Kumar Gogada <bharatku@xilinx.com> wrote:
>
> Hi All,
>
> As per Documentation/filesystems/dax.txt
>
> The DAX code does not work correctly on architectures which have virtually
> mapped caches such as ARM, MIPS and SPARC.
>
> Can anyone please shed light on dax filesystem issue w.r.t ARM architecture ?
The concern is VIVT caches since the kernel will want to flush pmem
addresses with different virtual addresses than what userspace is
using. As far as I know, ARMv8 has VIPT caches, so should not have an
issue. Willy initially wrote those restrictions, but I am assuming
that the concern was managing the caches in the presence of virtual
aliases.
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* Re: DAX filesystem support on ARMv8
2019-11-12 17:15 ` Dan Williams
@ 2019-11-12 22:02 ` Matthew Wilcox
2019-11-14 6:54 ` Bharat Kumar Gogada
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From: Matthew Wilcox @ 2019-11-12 22:02 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Dan Williams
Cc: Bharat Kumar Gogada, linux-nvdimm, linux-fsdevel, linux-kernel,
viro, jack
On Tue, Nov 12, 2019 at 09:15:18AM -0800, Dan Williams wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 11, 2019 at 6:12 PM Bharat Kumar Gogada <bharatku@xilinx.com> wrote:
> >
> > Hi All,
> >
> > As per Documentation/filesystems/dax.txt
> >
> > The DAX code does not work correctly on architectures which have virtually
> > mapped caches such as ARM, MIPS and SPARC.
> >
> > Can anyone please shed light on dax filesystem issue w.r.t ARM architecture ?
>
> The concern is VIVT caches since the kernel will want to flush pmem
> addresses with different virtual addresses than what userspace is
> using. As far as I know, ARMv8 has VIPT caches, so should not have an
> issue. Willy initially wrote those restrictions, but I am assuming
> that the concern was managing the caches in the presence of virtual
> aliases.
The kernel will also access data at different virtual addresses from
userspace. So VIVT CPUs will be mmap/read/write incoherent, as well as
being flush incoherent.
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* RE: DAX filesystem support on ARMv8
2019-11-12 22:02 ` Matthew Wilcox
@ 2019-11-14 6:54 ` Bharat Kumar Gogada
2019-12-01 18:54 ` Jon Masters
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From: Bharat Kumar Gogada @ 2019-11-14 6:54 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Matthew Wilcox, Dan Williams
Cc: linux-nvdimm, linux-fsdevel, linux-kernel, viro, jack
>
> On Tue, Nov 12, 2019 at 09:15:18AM -0800, Dan Williams wrote:
> > On Mon, Nov 11, 2019 at 6:12 PM Bharat Kumar Gogada
> <bharatku@xilinx.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > Hi All,
> > >
> > > As per Documentation/filesystems/dax.txt
> > >
> > > The DAX code does not work correctly on architectures which have
> > > virtually mapped caches such as ARM, MIPS and SPARC.
> > >
> > > Can anyone please shed light on dax filesystem issue w.r.t ARM architecture
> ?
> >
> > The concern is VIVT caches since the kernel will want to flush pmem
> > addresses with different virtual addresses than what userspace is
> > using. As far as I know, ARMv8 has VIPT caches, so should not have an
> > issue. Willy initially wrote those restrictions, but I am assuming
> > that the concern was managing the caches in the presence of virtual
> > aliases.
>
> The kernel will also access data at different virtual addresses from userspace.
> So VIVT CPUs will be mmap/read/write incoherent, as well as being flush
> incoherent.
Thanks a lot Wilcox and Dan for clarification.
So the above restriction only applies to ARM architectures with VIVT caches and not
for VIPT caches.
Regards,
Bharat
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* Re: DAX filesystem support on ARMv8
2019-11-14 6:54 ` Bharat Kumar Gogada
@ 2019-12-01 18:54 ` Jon Masters
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From: Jon Masters @ 2019-12-01 18:54 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Bharat Kumar Gogada, Matthew Wilcox, Dan Williams
Cc: linux-nvdimm, linux-fsdevel, linux-kernel, viro, jack
On 11/14/19 1:54 AM, Bharat Kumar Gogada wrote:
>>
>> On Tue, Nov 12, 2019 at 09:15:18AM -0800, Dan Williams wrote:
>>> On Mon, Nov 11, 2019 at 6:12 PM Bharat Kumar Gogada
>> <bharatku@xilinx.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Hi All,
>>>>
>>>> As per Documentation/filesystems/dax.txt
>>>>
>>>> The DAX code does not work correctly on architectures which have
>>>> virtually mapped caches such as ARM, MIPS and SPARC.
>>>>
>>>> Can anyone please shed light on dax filesystem issue w.r.t ARM architecture
>> ?
>>>
>>> The concern is VIVT caches since the kernel will want to flush pmem
>>> addresses with different virtual addresses than what userspace is
>>> using. As far as I know, ARMv8 has VIPT caches, so should not have an
>>> issue. Willy initially wrote those restrictions, but I am assuming
>>> that the concern was managing the caches in the presence of virtual
>>> aliases.
>>
>> The kernel will also access data at different virtual addresses from userspace.
>> So VIVT CPUs will be mmap/read/write incoherent, as well as being flush
>> incoherent.
>
> Thanks a lot Wilcox and Dan for clarification.
> So the above restriction only applies to ARM architectures with VIVT caches and not
> for VIPT caches.
VMSAv8-64 (Armv8) requires that data caches behave as if they were PIPT.
Meaning there is not a situation as described above.
Jon.
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