Re: [PATCH v2 2/4] libnvdimm/namespace: Enforce memremap_compat_align()

["Aneesh Kumar K.V" <aneesh.kumar@linux.ibm.com>]

On 2/14/20 10:14 PM, Jeff Moyer wrote:
> Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com> writes:
> 
>> On Thu, Feb 13, 2020 at 1:55 PM Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com> writes:
>>>
>>>> The pmem driver on PowerPC crashes with the following signature when
>>>> instantiating misaligned namespaces that map their capacity via
>>>> memremap_pages().
>>>>
>>>>      BUG: Unable to handle kernel data access at 0xc001000406000000
>>>>      Faulting instruction address: 0xc000000000090790
>>>>      NIP [c000000000090790] arch_add_memory+0xc0/0x130
>>>>      LR [c000000000090744] arch_add_memory+0x74/0x130
>>>>      Call Trace:
>>>>       arch_add_memory+0x74/0x130 (unreliable)
>>>>       memremap_pages+0x74c/0xa30
>>>>       devm_memremap_pages+0x3c/0xa0
>>>>       pmem_attach_disk+0x188/0x770
>>>>       nvdimm_bus_probe+0xd8/0x470
>>>>
>>>> With the assumption that only memremap_pages() has alignment
>>>> constraints, enforce memremap_compat_align() for
>>>> pmem_should_map_pages(), nd_pfn, or nd_dax cases.
>>>>
>>>> Reported-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.ibm.com>
>>>> Cc: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com>
>>>> Reviewed-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.ibm.com>
>>>> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/158041477336.3889308.4581652885008605170.stgit@dwillia2-desk3.amr.corp.intel.com
>>>> Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
>>>> ---
>>>>   drivers/nvdimm/namespace_devs.c |   10 ++++++++++
>>>>   1 file changed, 10 insertions(+)
>>>>
>>>> diff --git a/drivers/nvdimm/namespace_devs.c b/drivers/nvdimm/namespace_devs.c
>>>> index 032dc61725ff..aff1f32fdb4f 100644
>>>> --- a/drivers/nvdimm/namespace_devs.c
>>>> +++ b/drivers/nvdimm/namespace_devs.c
>>>> @@ -1739,6 +1739,16 @@ struct nd_namespace_common *nvdimm_namespace_common_probe(struct device *dev)
>>>>                return ERR_PTR(-ENODEV);
>>>>        }
>>>>
>>>> +     if (pmem_should_map_pages(dev) || nd_pfn || nd_dax) {
>>>> +             struct nd_namespace_io *nsio = to_nd_namespace_io(&ndns->dev);
>>>> +             resource_size_t start = nsio->res.start;
>>>> +
>>>> +             if (!IS_ALIGNED(start | size, memremap_compat_align())) {
>>>> +                     dev_dbg(&ndns->dev, "misaligned, unable to map\n");
>>>> +                     return ERR_PTR(-EOPNOTSUPP);
>>>> +             }
>>>> +     }
>>>> +
>>>>        if (is_namespace_pmem(&ndns->dev)) {
>>>>                struct nd_namespace_pmem *nspm;
>>>>
>>>
>>> Actually, I take back my ack.  :) This prevents a previously working
>>> namespace from being successfully probed/setup.
>>
>> Do you have a test case handy? I can see a potential gap with a
>> namespace that used internal padding to fix up the alignment.
> 
> # ndctl list -v -n namespace0.0
> [
>    {
>      "dev":"namespace0.0",
>      "mode":"fsdax",
>      "map":"dev",
>      "size":52846133248,
>      "uuid":"b99f6f6a-2909-4189-9bfa-6eeebd95d40e",
>      "raw_uuid":"aff43777-015b-493f-bbf9-7c7b0fe33519",
>      "sector_size":512,
>      "align":4096,
>      "blockdev":"pmem0",
>      "numa_node":0
>    }
> ]
> 
> # cat /sys/bus/nd/devices/region0/mappings
> 6
> 
> # grep namespace0.0 /proc/iomem
>    1860000000-24e0003fff : namespace0.0
> 
>> The goal of this check is to catch cases that are just going to fail
>> devm_memremap_pages(), and the expectation is that it could not have
>> worked before unless it was ported from another platform, or someone
>> flipped the page-size switch on PowerPC.
> 
> On x86, creation and probing of the namespace worked fine before this
> patch.  What *doesn't* work is creating another fsdax namespace after
> this one.  sector mode namespaces can still be created, though:
> 
> [
>    {
>      "dev":"namespace0.1",
>      "mode":"sector",
>      "size":53270768640,
>      "uuid":"67ea2c74-d4b1-4fc9-9c1a-a7d2a6c2a4a7",
>      "sector_size":512,
>      "blockdev":"pmem0.1s"
>    },
> 
> # grep namespace0.1 /proc/iomem
>    24e0004000-3160007fff : namespace0.1
> 
>>> I thought we were only going to enforce the alignment for a newly
>>> created namespace?  This should only check whether the alignment
>>> works for the current platform.
>>
>> The model is a new default 16MB alignment is enforced at creation
>> time, but if you need to support previously created namespaces then
>> you can manually trim that alignment requirement to no less than
>> memremap_compat_align() because that's the point at which
>> devm_memremap_pages() will start failing or crashing.
> 
> The problem is that older kernels did not enforce alignment to
> SUBSECTION_SIZE.  We shouldn't prevent those namespaces from being
> accessed.  The probe itself will not cause the WARN_ON to trigger.
> Creating new namespaces at misaligned addresses could, but you've
> altered the free space allocation such that we won't hit that anymore.
> 
> If I drop this patch, the probe will still work, and allocating new
> namespaces will also work:
> 
> # ndctl list
> [
>    {
>      "dev":"namespace0.1",
>      "mode":"sector",
>      "size":53270768640,
>      "uuid":"67ea2c74-d4b1-4fc9-9c1a-a7d2a6c2a4a7",
>      "sector_size":512,
>      "blockdev":"pmem0.1s"
>    },
>    {
>      "dev":"namespace0.0",
>      "mode":"fsdax",
>      "map":"dev",
>      "size":52846133248,
>      "uuid":"b99f6f6a-2909-4189-9bfa-6eeebd95d40e",
>      "sector_size":512,
>      "align":4096,
>      "blockdev":"pmem0"
>    }
> ]
>   ndctl create-namespace -m fsdax -s 36g -r 0
> {
>    "dev":"namespace0.2",
>    "mode":"fsdax",
>    "map":"dev",
>    "size":"35.44 GiB (38.05 GB)",
>    "uuid":"7893264c-c7ef-4cbe-95e1-ccf2aff041fb",
>    "sector_size":512,
>    "align":2097152,
>    "blockdev":"pmem0.2"
> }
> 
> proc/iomem:
> 
> 1860000000-d55fffffff : Persistent Memory
>    1860000000-24e0003fff : namespace0.0
>    24e0004000-3160007fff : namespace0.1
>    3162000000-3a61ffffff : namespace0.2
> 
> So, maybe the right thing is to make memremap_compat_align return
> PAGE_SIZE for x86 instead of SUBSECTION_SIZE?
> 


I did that as part of 
https://lore.kernel.org/linux-nvdimm/20200120140749.69549-2-aneesh.kumar@linux.ibm.com 
and applied the subsection details only when creating new namespace

https://lore.kernel.org/linux-nvdimm/20200120140749.69549-4-aneesh.kumar@linux.ibm.com


But I do agree with the approach that in-order to create a compatible 
namespace we need enforce max possible align value across all supported 
architectures.


On POWER we should still be able to enforce SUBSECTION_SIZE 
restrictions. We did put that as document w.r.t. distributions like Suse 
https://www.suse.com/support/kb/doc/?id=7024300



-aneesh