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From: "Aneesh Kumar K.V" <aneesh.kumar@linux.ibm.com>
To: Tyler Hicks <tyhicks@linux.microsoft.com>,
	Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>,
	Vishal Verma <vishal.l.verma@intel.com>,
	Dave Jiang <dave.jiang@intel.com>,
	Ira Weiny <ira.weiny@intel.com>
Cc: Pavel Tatashin <pasha.tatashin@soleen.com>,
	linux-nvdimm@lists.01.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] libnvdimm/region: Allow setting align attribute on regions without mappings
Date: Tue, 30 Mar 2021 16:32:10 +0530	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87h7ks7vm5.fsf@linux.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20210326152645.85225-1-tyhicks@linux.microsoft.com>

Tyler Hicks <tyhicks@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.
>
> Fixes: 2522afb86a8c ("libnvdimm/region: Introduce an 'align' attribute")
> Signed-off-by: Tyler Hicks <tyhicks@linux.microsoft.com>
> ---
>  drivers/nvdimm/region_devs.c | 33 ++++++++++++++++++---------------
>  1 file changed, 18 insertions(+), 15 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/nvdimm/region_devs.c b/drivers/nvdimm/region_devs.c
> index ef23119db574..09cff8aa6b40 100644
> --- a/drivers/nvdimm/region_devs.c
> +++ b/drivers/nvdimm/region_devs.c
> @@ -545,29 +545,32 @@ static ssize_t align_store(struct device *dev,
>  		struct device_attribute *attr, const char *buf, size_t len)
>  {
>  	struct nd_region *nd_region = to_nd_region(dev);
> -	unsigned long val, dpa;
> -	u32 remainder;
> +	unsigned long val;
>  	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
> -	 * to determine which DIMM(s), dimm-physical-addresses, would
> -	 * contribute to the tail capacity in system-physical-address
> -	 * space for the namespace.
> -	 */
> -	dpa = div_u64_rem(val, nd_region->ndr_mappings, &remainder);
> -	if (!is_power_of_2(dpa) || dpa < PAGE_SIZE
> -			|| val > region_size(nd_region) || remainder)
> +	if (val > region_size(nd_region))
>  		return -EINVAL;
>  
> +	if (nd_region->ndr_mappings) {
> +		unsigned long dpa;
> +		u32 remainder;
> +
> +		/*
> +		 * Ensure space-align is evenly divisible by the region
> +		 * interleave-width because the kernel typically has no facility
> +		 * to determine which DIMM(s), dimm-physical-addresses, would
> +		 * contribute to the tail capacity in system-physical-address
> +		 * space for the namespace.
> +		 */
> +		dpa = div_u64_rem(val, nd_region->ndr_mappings, &remainder);
> +		if (!is_power_of_2(dpa) || dpa < PAGE_SIZE || remainder)
> +			return -EINVAL;
> +	}

We still want

else {

if (!is_power_of_2(val) || val < PAGE_SIZE)
         return -EINVAL?

}
> +
>  	/*
>  	 * Given that space allocation consults this value multiple
>  	 * times ensure it does not change for the duration of the
> -- 
> 2.25.1
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  parent reply	other threads:[~2021-03-30 11:02 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-03-26 15:26 [PATCH] libnvdimm/region: Allow setting align attribute on regions without mappings Tyler Hicks
2021-03-26 22:03 ` Pavel Tatashin
2021-03-30 11:02 ` Aneesh Kumar K.V [this message]
2021-03-30 15:43   ` Tyler Hicks

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