[RFC PATCH 1/3] mm/nvdimm: Add PFN_MIN_VERSION support
Aneesh Kumar K.V
aneesh.kumar at linux.ibm.com
Wed May 22 16:20:55 AEST 2019
This allows us to make changes in a backward incompatible way. I have
kept the PFN_MIN_VERSION in this patch '0' because we are not introducing
any incompatible changes in this patch. We also may want to backport this
to older kernels.
Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar at linux.ibm.com>
---
drivers/nvdimm/pfn.h | 9 ++++++++-
drivers/nvdimm/pfn_devs.c | 4 ++++
drivers/nvdimm/pmem.c | 26 ++++++++++++++++++++++----
3 files changed, 34 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/nvdimm/pfn.h b/drivers/nvdimm/pfn.h
index dde9853453d3..1b10ae5773b6 100644
--- a/drivers/nvdimm/pfn.h
+++ b/drivers/nvdimm/pfn.h
@@ -20,6 +20,12 @@
#define PFN_SIG_LEN 16
#define PFN_SIG "NVDIMM_PFN_INFO\0"
#define DAX_SIG "NVDIMM_DAX_INFO\0"
+/*
+ * increment this when we are making changes such that older
+ * kernel should fail to initialize that namespace.
+ */
+
+#define PFN_MIN_VERSION 0
struct nd_pfn_sb {
u8 signature[PFN_SIG_LEN];
@@ -36,7 +42,8 @@ struct nd_pfn_sb {
__le32 end_trunc;
/* minor-version-2 record the base alignment of the mapping */
__le32 align;
- u8 padding[4000];
+ __le16 min_verison;
+ u8 padding[3998];
__le64 checksum;
};
diff --git a/drivers/nvdimm/pfn_devs.c b/drivers/nvdimm/pfn_devs.c
index 01f40672507f..3250de70a7b3 100644
--- a/drivers/nvdimm/pfn_devs.c
+++ b/drivers/nvdimm/pfn_devs.c
@@ -439,6 +439,9 @@ int nd_pfn_validate(struct nd_pfn *nd_pfn, const char *sig)
if (nvdimm_read_bytes(ndns, SZ_4K, pfn_sb, sizeof(*pfn_sb), 0))
return -ENXIO;
+ if (le16_to_cpu(pfn_sb->min_version > PFN_MIN_VERSION))
+ return -EOPNOTSUPP;
+
if (memcmp(pfn_sb->signature, sig, PFN_SIG_LEN) != 0)
return -ENODEV;
@@ -769,6 +772,7 @@ static int nd_pfn_init(struct nd_pfn *nd_pfn)
memcpy(pfn_sb->parent_uuid, nd_dev_to_uuid(&ndns->dev), 16);
pfn_sb->version_major = cpu_to_le16(1);
pfn_sb->version_minor = cpu_to_le16(2);
+ pfn_sb->min_version = cpu_to_le16(PFN_MIN_VERSION);
pfn_sb->start_pad = cpu_to_le32(start_pad);
pfn_sb->end_trunc = cpu_to_le32(end_trunc);
pfn_sb->align = cpu_to_le32(nd_pfn->align);
diff --git a/drivers/nvdimm/pmem.c b/drivers/nvdimm/pmem.c
index 845c5b430cdd..406427c064d9 100644
--- a/drivers/nvdimm/pmem.c
+++ b/drivers/nvdimm/pmem.c
@@ -490,6 +490,7 @@ static int pmem_attach_disk(struct device *dev,
static int nd_pmem_probe(struct device *dev)
{
+ int ret;
struct nd_namespace_common *ndns;
ndns = nvdimm_namespace_common_probe(dev);
@@ -505,12 +506,29 @@ static int nd_pmem_probe(struct device *dev)
if (is_nd_pfn(dev))
return pmem_attach_disk(dev, ndns);
- /* if we find a valid info-block we'll come back as that personality */
- if (nd_btt_probe(dev, ndns) == 0 || nd_pfn_probe(dev, ndns) == 0
- || nd_dax_probe(dev, ndns) == 0)
+ ret = nd_btt_probe(dev, ndns);
+ if (ret == 0)
return -ENXIO;
+ else if (ret == -EOPNOTSUPP)
+ return ret;
- /* ...otherwise we're just a raw pmem device */
+ ret = nd_pfn_probe(dev, ndns);
+ if (ret == 0)
+ return -ENXIO;
+ else if (ret == -EOPNOTSUPP)
+ return ret;
+
+ ret = nd_dax_probe(dev, ndns);
+ if (ret == 0)
+ return -ENXIO;
+ else if (ret == -EOPNOTSUPP)
+ return ret;
+ /*
+ * We have two failure conditions here, there is no
+ * info reserver block or we found a valid info reserve block
+ * but failed to initialize the pfn superblock.
+ * Don't create a raw pmem disk for the second case.
+ */
return pmem_attach_disk(dev, ndns);
}
--
2.21.0
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