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<title>License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license</title>
<updated>2017-11-02T10:10:55Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Greg Kroah-Hartman</name>
<email>gregkh@linuxfoundation.org</email>
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<published>2017-11-01T14:07:57Z</published>
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Many source files in the tree are missing licensing information, which
makes it harder for compliance tools to determine the correct license.

By default all files without license information are under the default
license of the kernel, which is GPL version 2.

Update the files which contain no license information with the 'GPL-2.0'
SPDX license identifier.  The SPDX identifier is a legally binding
shorthand, which can be used instead of the full boiler plate text.

This patch is based on work done by Thomas Gleixner and Kate Stewart and
Philippe Ombredanne.

How this work was done:

Patches were generated and checked against linux-4.14-rc6 for a subset of
the use cases:
 - file had no licensing information it it.
 - file was a */uapi/* one with no licensing information in it,
 - file was a */uapi/* one with existing licensing information,

Further patches will be generated in subsequent months to fix up cases
where non-standard license headers were used, and references to license
had to be inferred by heuristics based on keywords.

The analysis to determine which SPDX License Identifier to be applied to
a file was done in a spreadsheet of side by side results from of the
output of two independent scanners (ScanCode &amp; Windriver) producing SPDX
tag:value files created by Philippe Ombredanne.  Philippe prepared the
base worksheet, and did an initial spot review of a few 1000 files.

The 4.13 kernel was the starting point of the analysis with 60,537 files
assessed.  Kate Stewart did a file by file comparison of the scanner
results in the spreadsheet to determine which SPDX license identifier(s)
to be applied to the file. She confirmed any determination that was not
immediately clear with lawyers working with the Linux Foundation.

Criteria used to select files for SPDX license identifier tagging was:
 - Files considered eligible had to be source code files.
 - Make and config files were included as candidates if they contained &gt;5
   lines of source
 - File already had some variant of a license header in it (even if &lt;5
   lines).

All documentation files were explicitly excluded.

The following heuristics were used to determine which SPDX license
identifiers to apply.

 - when both scanners couldn't find any license traces, file was
   considered to have no license information in it, and the top level
   COPYING file license applied.

   For non */uapi/* files that summary was:

   SPDX license identifier                            # files
   ---------------------------------------------------|-------
   GPL-2.0                                              11139

   and resulted in the first patch in this series.

   If that file was a */uapi/* path one, it was "GPL-2.0 WITH
   Linux-syscall-note" otherwise it was "GPL-2.0".  Results of that was:

   SPDX license identifier                            # files
   ---------------------------------------------------|-------
   GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note                        930

   and resulted in the second patch in this series.

 - if a file had some form of licensing information in it, and was one
   of the */uapi/* ones, it was denoted with the Linux-syscall-note if
   any GPL family license was found in the file or had no licensing in
   it (per prior point).  Results summary:

   SPDX license identifier                            # files
   ---------------------------------------------------|------
   GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note                       270
   GPL-2.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note                      169
   ((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR BSD-2-Clause)    21
   ((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR BSD-3-Clause)    17
   LGPL-2.1+ WITH Linux-syscall-note                      15
   GPL-1.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note                       14
   ((GPL-2.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR BSD-3-Clause)    5
   LGPL-2.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note                       4
   LGPL-2.1 WITH Linux-syscall-note                        3
   ((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR MIT)              3
   ((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) AND MIT)             1

   and that resulted in the third patch in this series.

 - when the two scanners agreed on the detected license(s), that became
   the concluded license(s).

 - when there was disagreement between the two scanners (one detected a
   license but the other didn't, or they both detected different
   licenses) a manual inspection of the file occurred.

 - In most cases a manual inspection of the information in the file
   resulted in a clear resolution of the license that should apply (and
   which scanner probably needed to revisit its heuristics).

 - When it was not immediately clear, the license identifier was
   confirmed with lawyers working with the Linux Foundation.

 - If there was any question as to the appropriate license identifier,
   the file was flagged for further research and to be revisited later
   in time.

In total, over 70 hours of logged manual review was done on the
spreadsheet to determine the SPDX license identifiers to apply to the
source files by Kate, Philippe, Thomas and, in some cases, confirmation
by lawyers working with the Linux Foundation.

Kate also obtained a third independent scan of the 4.13 code base from
FOSSology, and compared selected files where the other two scanners
disagreed against that SPDX file, to see if there was new insights.  The
Windriver scanner is based on an older version of FOSSology in part, so
they are related.

Thomas did random spot checks in about 500 files from the spreadsheets
for the uapi headers and agreed with SPDX license identifier in the
files he inspected. For the non-uapi files Thomas did random spot checks
in about 15000 files.

In initial set of patches against 4.14-rc6, 3 files were found to have
copy/paste license identifier errors, and have been fixed to reflect the
correct identifier.

Additionally Philippe spent 10 hours this week doing a detailed manual
inspection and review of the 12,461 patched files from the initial patch
version early this week with:
 - a full scancode scan run, collecting the matched texts, detected
   license ids and scores
 - reviewing anything where there was a license detected (about 500+
   files) to ensure that the applied SPDX license was correct
 - reviewing anything where there was no detection but the patch license
   was not GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note to ensure that the applied
   SPDX license was correct

This produced a worksheet with 20 files needing minor correction.  This
worksheet was then exported into 3 different .csv files for the
different types of files to be modified.

These .csv files were then reviewed by Greg.  Thomas wrote a script to
parse the csv files and add the proper SPDX tag to the file, in the
format that the file expected.  This script was further refined by Greg
based on the output to detect more types of files automatically and to
distinguish between header and source .c files (which need different
comment types.)  Finally Greg ran the script using the .csv files to
generate the patches.

Reviewed-by: Kate Stewart &lt;kstewart@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Philippe Ombredanne &lt;pombredanne@nexb.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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<title>Merge tag 'for-4.14/dm-changes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/device-mapper/linux-dm</title>
<updated>2017-09-14T20:43:16Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
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<published>2017-09-14T20:43:16Z</published>
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Pull device mapper updates from Mike Snitzer:

 - Some request-based DM core and DM multipath fixes and cleanups

 - Constify a few variables in DM core and DM integrity

 - Add bufio optimization and checksum failure accounting to DM
   integrity

 - Fix DM integrity to avoid checking integrity of failed reads

 - Fix DM integrity to use init_completion

 - A couple DM log-writes target fixes

 - Simplify DAX flushing by eliminating the unnecessary flush
   abstraction that was stood up for DM's use.

* tag 'for-4.14/dm-changes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/device-mapper/linux-dm:
  dax: remove the pmem_dax_ops-&gt;flush abstraction
  dm integrity: use init_completion instead of COMPLETION_INITIALIZER_ONSTACK
  dm integrity: make blk_integrity_profile structure const
  dm integrity: do not check integrity for failed read operations
  dm log writes: fix &gt;512b sectorsize support
  dm log writes: don't use all the cpu while waiting to log blocks
  dm ioctl: constify ioctl lookup table
  dm: constify argument arrays
  dm integrity: count and display checksum failures
  dm integrity: optimize writing dm-bufio buffers that are partially changed
  dm rq: do not update rq partially in each ending bio
  dm rq: make dm-sq requeuing behavior consistent with dm-mq behavior
  dm mpath: complain about unsupported __multipath_map_bio() return values
  dm mpath: avoid that building with W=1 causes gcc 7 to complain about fall-through
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<title>Merge tag 'libnvdimm-for-4.14' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/nvdimm/nvdimm</title>
<updated>2017-09-11T20:10:57Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
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Pull libnvdimm from Dan Williams:
 "A rework of media error handling in the BTT driver and other updates.
  It has appeared in a few -next releases and collected some late-
  breaking build-error and warning fixups as a result.

  Summary:

   - Media error handling support in the Block Translation Table (BTT)
     driver is reworked to address sleeping-while-atomic locking and
     memory-allocation-context conflicts.

   - The dax_device lookup overhead for xfs and ext4 is moved out of the
     iomap hot-path to a mount-time lookup.

   - A new 'ecc_unit_size' sysfs attribute is added to advertise the
     read-modify-write boundary property of a persistent memory range.

   - Preparatory fix-ups for arm and powerpc pmem support are included
     along with other miscellaneous fixes"

* tag 'libnvdimm-for-4.14' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/nvdimm/nvdimm: (26 commits)
  libnvdimm, btt: fix format string warnings
  libnvdimm, btt: clean up warning and error messages
  ext4: fix null pointer dereference on sbi
  libnvdimm, nfit: move the check on nd_reserved2 to the endpoint
  dax: fix FS_DAX=n BLOCK=y compilation
  libnvdimm: fix integer overflow static analysis warning
  libnvdimm, nd_blk: remove mmio_flush_range()
  libnvdimm, btt: rework error clearing
  libnvdimm: fix potential deadlock while clearing errors
  libnvdimm, btt: cache sector_size in arena_info
  libnvdimm, btt: ensure that flags were also unchanged during a map_read
  libnvdimm, btt: refactor map entry operations with macros
  libnvdimm, btt: fix a missed NVDIMM_IO_ATOMIC case in the write path
  libnvdimm, nfit: export an 'ecc_unit_size' sysfs attribute
  ext4: perform dax_device lookup at mount
  ext2: perform dax_device lookup at mount
  xfs: perform dax_device lookup at mount
  dax: introduce a fs_dax_get_by_bdev() helper
  libnvdimm, btt: check memory allocation failure
  libnvdimm, label: fix index block size calculation
  ...
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<title>dax: remove the pmem_dax_ops-&gt;flush abstraction</title>
<updated>2017-09-11T15:00:55Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Mikulas Patocka</name>
<email>mpatocka@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-09-01T01:47:43Z</published>
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Commit abebfbe2f731 ("dm: add -&gt;flush() dax operation support") is
buggy. A DM device may be composed of multiple underlying devices and
all of them need to be flushed. That commit just routes the flush
request to the first device and ignores the other devices.

It could be fixed by adding more complex logic to the device mapper. But
there is only one implementation of the method pmem_dax_ops-&gt;flush - that
is pmem_dax_flush() - and it calls arch_wb_cache_pmem(). Consequently, we
don't need the pmem_dax_ops-&gt;flush abstraction at all, we can call
arch_wb_cache_pmem() directly from dax_flush() because dax_dev-&gt;ops-&gt;flush
can't ever reach anything different from arch_wb_cache_pmem().

It should be also pointed out that for some uses of persistent memory it
is needed to flush only a very small amount of data (such as 1 cacheline),
and it would be overkill if we go through that device mapper machinery for
a single flushed cache line.

Fix this by removing the pmem_dax_ops-&gt;flush abstraction and call
arch_wb_cache_pmem() directly from dax_flush(). Also, remove the device
mapper code that forwards the flushes.

Fixes: abebfbe2f731 ("dm: add -&gt;flush() dax operation support")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka &lt;mpatocka@redhat.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Dan Williams &lt;dan.j.williams@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer &lt;snitzer@redhat.com&gt;
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<title>dax: move all DAX radix tree defs to fs/dax.c</title>
<updated>2017-09-07T00:27:24Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Ross Zwisler</name>
<email>ross.zwisler@linux.intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-09-06T23:18:51Z</published>
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Now that we no longer insert struct page pointers in DAX radix trees the
page cache code no longer needs to know anything about DAX exceptional
entries.  Move all the DAX exceptional entry definitions from dax.h to
fs/dax.c.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170724170616.25810-6-ross.zwisler@linux.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Ross Zwisler &lt;ross.zwisler@linux.intel.com&gt;
Suggested-by: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
Cc: "Darrick J. Wong" &lt;darrick.wong@oracle.com&gt;
Cc: "Theodore Ts'o" &lt;tytso@mit.edu&gt;
Cc: Alexander Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Andreas Dilger &lt;adilger.kernel@dilger.ca&gt;
Cc: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Cc: Dan Williams &lt;dan.j.williams@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Dave Chinner &lt;david@fromorbit.com&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Jonathan Corbet &lt;corbet@lwn.net&gt;
Cc: Matthew Wilcox &lt;mawilcox@microsoft.com&gt;
Cc: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Cc: Kirill A. Shutemov &lt;kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<title>dax: remove DAX code from page_cache_tree_insert()</title>
<updated>2017-09-07T00:27:24Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Ross Zwisler</name>
<email>ross.zwisler@linux.intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-09-06T23:18:47Z</published>
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Now that we no longer insert struct page pointers in DAX radix trees we
can remove the special casing for DAX in page_cache_tree_insert().

This also allows us to make dax_wake_mapping_entry_waiter() local to
fs/dax.c, removing it from dax.h.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170724170616.25810-5-ross.zwisler@linux.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Ross Zwisler &lt;ross.zwisler@linux.intel.com&gt;
Suggested-by: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
Cc: "Darrick J. Wong" &lt;darrick.wong@oracle.com&gt;
Cc: "Theodore Ts'o" &lt;tytso@mit.edu&gt;
Cc: Alexander Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Andreas Dilger &lt;adilger.kernel@dilger.ca&gt;
Cc: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Cc: Dan Williams &lt;dan.j.williams@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Dave Chinner &lt;david@fromorbit.com&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Jonathan Corbet &lt;corbet@lwn.net&gt;
Cc: Matthew Wilcox &lt;mawilcox@microsoft.com&gt;
Cc: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Cc: Kirill A. Shutemov &lt;kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<title>dax: use common 4k zero page for dax mmap reads</title>
<updated>2017-09-07T00:27:24Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Ross Zwisler</name>
<email>ross.zwisler@linux.intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-09-06T23:18:43Z</published>
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When servicing mmap() reads from file holes the current DAX code
allocates a page cache page of all zeroes and places the struct page
pointer in the mapping-&gt;page_tree radix tree.

This has three major drawbacks:

1) It consumes memory unnecessarily. For every 4k page that is read via
   a DAX mmap() over a hole, we allocate a new page cache page. This
   means that if you read 1GiB worth of pages, you end up using 1GiB of
   zeroed memory. This is easily visible by looking at the overall
   memory consumption of the system or by looking at /proc/[pid]/smaps:

	7f62e72b3000-7f63272b3000 rw-s 00000000 103:00 12   /root/dax/data
	Size:            1048576 kB
	Rss:             1048576 kB
	Pss:             1048576 kB
	Shared_Clean:          0 kB
	Shared_Dirty:          0 kB
	Private_Clean:   1048576 kB
	Private_Dirty:         0 kB
	Referenced:      1048576 kB
	Anonymous:             0 kB
	LazyFree:              0 kB
	AnonHugePages:         0 kB
	ShmemPmdMapped:        0 kB
	Shared_Hugetlb:        0 kB
	Private_Hugetlb:       0 kB
	Swap:                  0 kB
	SwapPss:               0 kB
	KernelPageSize:        4 kB
	MMUPageSize:           4 kB
	Locked:                0 kB

2) It is slower than using a common zero page because each page fault
   has more work to do. Instead of just inserting a common zero page we
   have to allocate a page cache page, zero it, and then insert it. Here
   are the average latencies of dax_load_hole() as measured by ftrace on
   a random test box:

    Old method, using zeroed page cache pages:	3.4 us
    New method, using the common 4k zero page:	0.8 us

   This was the average latency over 1 GiB of sequential reads done by
   this simple fio script:

     [global]
     size=1G
     filename=/root/dax/data
     fallocate=none
     [io]
     rw=read
     ioengine=mmap

3) The fact that we had to check for both DAX exceptional entries and
   for page cache pages in the radix tree made the DAX code more
   complex.

Solve these issues by following the lead of the DAX PMD code and using a
common 4k zero page instead.  As with the PMD code we will now insert a
DAX exceptional entry into the radix tree instead of a struct page
pointer which allows us to remove all the special casing in the DAX
code.

Note that we do still pretty aggressively check for regular pages in the
DAX radix tree, especially where we take action based on the bits set in
the page.  If we ever find a regular page in our radix tree now that
most likely means that someone besides DAX is inserting pages (which has
happened lots of times in the past), and we want to find that out early
and fail loudly.

This solution also removes the extra memory consumption.  Here is that
same /proc/[pid]/smaps after 1GiB of reading from a hole with the new
code:

	7f2054a74000-7f2094a74000 rw-s 00000000 103:00 12   /root/dax/data
	Size:            1048576 kB
	Rss:                   0 kB
	Pss:                   0 kB
	Shared_Clean:          0 kB
	Shared_Dirty:          0 kB
	Private_Clean:         0 kB
	Private_Dirty:         0 kB
	Referenced:            0 kB
	Anonymous:             0 kB
	LazyFree:              0 kB
	AnonHugePages:         0 kB
	ShmemPmdMapped:        0 kB
	Shared_Hugetlb:        0 kB
	Private_Hugetlb:       0 kB
	Swap:                  0 kB
	SwapPss:               0 kB
	KernelPageSize:        4 kB
	MMUPageSize:           4 kB
	Locked:                0 kB

Overall system memory consumption is similarly improved.

Another major change is that we remove dax_pfn_mkwrite() from our fault
flow, and instead rely on the page fault itself to make the PTE dirty
and writeable.  The following description from the patch adding the
vm_insert_mixed_mkwrite() call explains this a little more:

   "To be able to use the common 4k zero page in DAX we need to have our
    PTE fault path look more like our PMD fault path where a PTE entry
    can be marked as dirty and writeable as it is first inserted rather
    than waiting for a follow-up dax_pfn_mkwrite() =&gt;
    finish_mkwrite_fault() call.

    Right now we can rely on having a dax_pfn_mkwrite() call because we
    can distinguish between these two cases in do_wp_page():

            case 1: 4k zero page =&gt; writable DAX storage
            case 2: read-only DAX storage =&gt; writeable DAX storage

    This distinction is made by via vm_normal_page(). vm_normal_page()
    returns false for the common 4k zero page, though, just as it does
    for DAX ptes. Instead of special casing the DAX + 4k zero page case
    we will simplify our DAX PTE page fault sequence so that it matches
    our DAX PMD sequence, and get rid of the dax_pfn_mkwrite() helper.
    We will instead use dax_iomap_fault() to handle write-protection
    faults.

    This means that insert_pfn() needs to follow the lead of
    insert_pfn_pmd() and allow us to pass in a 'mkwrite' flag. If
    'mkwrite' is set insert_pfn() will do the work that was previously
    done by wp_page_reuse() as part of the dax_pfn_mkwrite() call path"

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170724170616.25810-4-ross.zwisler@linux.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Ross Zwisler &lt;ross.zwisler@linux.intel.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
Cc: "Darrick J. Wong" &lt;darrick.wong@oracle.com&gt;
Cc: "Theodore Ts'o" &lt;tytso@mit.edu&gt;
Cc: Alexander Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Andreas Dilger &lt;adilger.kernel@dilger.ca&gt;
Cc: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Cc: Dan Williams &lt;dan.j.williams@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Dave Chinner &lt;david@fromorbit.com&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Jonathan Corbet &lt;corbet@lwn.net&gt;
Cc: Matthew Wilcox &lt;mawilcox@microsoft.com&gt;
Cc: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Cc: Kirill A. Shutemov &lt;kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>dax: introduce a fs_dax_get_by_bdev() helper</title>
<updated>2017-08-30T16:16:38Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Dan Williams</name>
<email>dan.j.williams@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-08-30T16:16:38Z</published>
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Add a helper that can replace the following common pattern:

	if (blk_queue_dax(bdev-&gt;bd_queue))
		fs_dax_get_by_host(bdev-&gt;bd_disk-&gt;disk_name);

This will be used to move dax_device lookup from iomap-operation time to
fs-mount time.

Reviewed-by: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Darrick J. Wong &lt;darrick.wong@oracle.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams &lt;dan.j.williams@intel.com&gt;
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>dm, dax: Make sure dm_dax_flush() is called if device supports it</title>
<updated>2017-07-26T19:55:44Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Vivek Goyal</name>
<email>vgoyal@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-07-26T13:35:09Z</published>
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Currently dm_dax_flush() is not being called, even if underlying dax
device supports write cache, because DAXDEV_WRITE_CACHE is not being
propagated up to the DM dax device.

If the underlying dax device supports write cache, set
DAXDEV_WRITE_CACHE on the DM dax device.  This will cause dm_dax_flush()
to be called.

Fixes: abebfbe2f7 ("dm: add -&gt;flush() dax operation support")
Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal &lt;vgoyal@redhat.com&gt;
Acked-by: Dan Williams &lt;dan.j.williams@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer &lt;snitzer@redhat.com&gt;
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>mm: always enable thp for dax mappings</title>
<updated>2017-07-10T23:32:31Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Dan Williams</name>
<email>dan.j.williams@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-07-10T22:48:25Z</published>
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The madvise policy for transparent huge pages is meant to avoid unwanted
allocations of transparent huge pages.  It allows a policy of disabling
the extra memory pressure and effort to arrange for a huge page when it
is not needed.

DAX by definition never incurs this overhead since it is statically
allocated.  The policy choice makes even less sense for device-dax which
tries to guarantee a given tlb-fault size.  Specifically, the following
setting:

	echo never &gt; /sys/kernel/mm/transparent_hugepage/enabled

...violates that guarantee and silently disables all device-dax
instances with a 2M or 1G alignment.  So, let's avoid that non-obvious
side effect by force enabling thp for dax mappings in all cases.

It is worth noting that the reason this uses vma_is_dax(), and the
resulting header include changes, is that previous attempts to add a
VM_DAX flag were NAKd.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/149739531127.20686.15813586620597484283.stgit@dwillia2-desk3.amr.corp.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams &lt;dan.j.williams@intel.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Ross Zwisler &lt;ross.zwisler@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
Cc: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Cc: "Kirill A. Shutemov" &lt;kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Michal Hocko &lt;mhocko@suse.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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