[PATCH 00/12] fs/dax: Fix FS DAX page reference counts

Alistair Popple apopple at nvidia.com
Tue Sep 10 14:14:25 AEST 2024


Main updates since v1:

 - Now passes the same number of xfs_test with dax=always as without
   this series (some seem to fail on my setup normally). Thanks Dave
   for the suggestion as there were some deadlocks/crashes in v1 due
   to misshandling of write-protect faults and truncation which should
   now be fixed.

 - The pgmap field has been moved to the folio (thanks Matthew for the
   suggestion).

 - No longer remove the vmf_insert_pfn_pXd() functions and instead
   refactor them for use by DAX as Peter Xu suggested they will be
   needed in future and I see there are patches in linux-next that
   call them.

FS DAX pages have always maintained their own page reference counts
without following the normal rules for page reference counting. In
particular pages are considered free when the refcount hits one rather
than zero and refcounts are not added when mapping the page.

Tracking this requires special PTE bits (PTE_DEVMAP) and a secondary
mechanism for allowing GUP to hold references on the page (see
get_dev_pagemap). However there doesn't seem to be any reason why FS
DAX pages need their own reference counting scheme.

By treating the refcounts on these pages the same way as normal pages
we can remove a lot of special checks. In particular pXd_trans_huge()
becomes the same as pXd_leaf(), although I haven't made that change
here. It also frees up a valuable SW define PTE bit on architectures
that have devmap PTE bits defined.

It also almost certainly allows further clean-up of the devmap managed
functions, but I have left that as a future improvment.

I am not intimately familiar with the FS DAX code so would appreciate
some careful review there. In particular I have not given any thought
at all to CONFIG_FS_DAX_LIMITED.

Signed-off-by: Alistair Popple <apopple at nvidia.com>

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Alistair Popple (12):
  mm/gup.c: Remove redundant check for PCI P2PDMA page
  pci/p2pdma: Don't initialise page refcount to one
  fs/dax: Refactor wait for dax idle page
  mm: Allow compound zone device pages
  mm/memory: Add dax_insert_pfn
  huge_memory: Allow mappings of PUD sized pages
  huge_memory: Allow mappings of PMD sized pages
  gup: Don't allow FOLL_LONGTERM pinning of FS DAX pages
  mm: Update vm_normal_page() callers to accept FS DAX pages
  fs/dax: Properly refcount fs dax pages
  mm: Remove pXX_devmap callers
  mm: Remove devmap related functions and page table bits

 Documentation/mm/arch_pgtable_helpers.rst     |   6 +-
 arch/arm64/Kconfig                            |   1 +-
 arch/arm64/include/asm/pgtable-prot.h         |   1 +-
 arch/arm64/include/asm/pgtable.h              |  24 +--
 arch/powerpc/Kconfig                          |   1 +-
 arch/powerpc/include/asm/book3s/64/hash-4k.h  |   6 +-
 arch/powerpc/include/asm/book3s/64/hash-64k.h |   7 +-
 arch/powerpc/include/asm/book3s/64/pgtable.h  |  52 +----
 arch/powerpc/include/asm/book3s/64/radix.h    |  14 +-
 arch/powerpc/mm/book3s64/hash_pgtable.c       |   3 +-
 arch/powerpc/mm/book3s64/pgtable.c            |   8 +-
 arch/powerpc/mm/book3s64/radix_pgtable.c      |   5 +-
 arch/powerpc/mm/pgtable.c                     |   2 +-
 arch/x86/Kconfig                              |   1 +-
 arch/x86/include/asm/pgtable.h                |  50 +----
 arch/x86/include/asm/pgtable_types.h          |   5 +-
 arch/x86/mm/pat/memtype.c                     |   4 +-
 drivers/dax/device.c                          |  12 +-
 drivers/dax/super.c                           |   2 +-
 drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nouveau_dmem.c        |   3 +-
 drivers/nvdimm/pmem.c                         |   4 +-
 drivers/pci/p2pdma.c                          |  12 +-
 fs/dax.c                                      | 197 ++++++++---------
 fs/ext4/inode.c                               |   5 +-
 fs/fuse/dax.c                                 |   4 +-
 fs/fuse/virtio_fs.c                           |   3 +-
 fs/proc/task_mmu.c                            |  16 +-
 fs/userfaultfd.c                              |   2 +-
 fs/xfs/xfs_inode.c                            |   4 +-
 include/linux/dax.h                           |  12 +-
 include/linux/huge_mm.h                       |  15 +-
 include/linux/memremap.h                      |  17 +-
 include/linux/migrate.h                       |   4 +-
 include/linux/mm.h                            |  39 +---
 include/linux/mm_types.h                      |   9 +-
 include/linux/mmzone.h                        |   8 +-
 include/linux/page-flags.h                    |   6 +-
 include/linux/pfn_t.h                         |  20 +--
 include/linux/pgtable.h                       |  21 +--
 include/linux/rmap.h                          |  15 +-
 lib/test_hmm.c                                |   3 +-
 mm/Kconfig                                    |   4 +-
 mm/debug_vm_pgtable.c                         |  59 +-----
 mm/gup.c                                      | 177 +---------------
 mm/hmm.c                                      |  12 +-
 mm/huge_memory.c                              | 221 +++++++++++--------
 mm/internal.h                                 |   2 +-
 mm/khugepaged.c                               |   2 +-
 mm/mapping_dirty_helpers.c                    |   4 +-
 mm/memcontrol-v1.c                            |   2 +-
 mm/memory-failure.c                           |   6 +-
 mm/memory.c                                   | 126 +++++++----
 mm/memremap.c                                 |  53 ++---
 mm/migrate_device.c                           |   9 +-
 mm/mlock.c                                    |   2 +-
 mm/mm_init.c                                  |  23 +-
 mm/mprotect.c                                 |   2 +-
 mm/mremap.c                                   |   5 +-
 mm/page_vma_mapped.c                          |   5 +-
 mm/pagewalk.c                                 |   8 +-
 mm/pgtable-generic.c                          |   7 +-
 mm/rmap.c                                     |  49 ++++-
 mm/swap.c                                     |   2 +-
 mm/userfaultfd.c                              |   2 +-
 mm/vmscan.c                                   |   5 +-
 65 files changed, 591 insertions(+), 819 deletions(-)

base-commit: 6f1833b8208c3b9e59eff10792667b6639365146
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