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From: "Huang, Ying" <ying.huang@intel.com>
To: Vishal Verma <vishal.l.verma@intel.com>
Cc: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>,  Dave Jiang
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 <lizhijian@fujitsu.com>,  Jonathan Cameron <Jonathan.Cameron@huawei.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 4/4] dax: add a sysfs knob to control
 memmap_on_memory behavior
In-Reply-To: <20231214-vv-dax_abi-v5-4-3f7b006960b4@intel.com> (Vishal Verma's
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Date: Fri, 15 Dec 2023 12:53:40 +0800
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Vishal Verma <vishal.l.verma@intel.com> writes:

> Add a sysfs knob for dax devices to control the memmap_on_memory setting
> if the dax device were to be hotplugged as system memory.
>
> The default memmap_on_memory setting for dax devices originating via
> pmem or hmem is set to 'false' - i.e. no memmap_on_memory semantics, to
> preserve legacy behavior. For dax devices via CXL, the default is on.
> The sysfs control allows the administrator to override the above
> defaults if needed.
>
> Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
> Cc: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
> Cc: Dave Jiang <dave.jiang@intel.com>
> Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
> Cc: Huang Ying <ying.huang@intel.com>
> Tested-by: Li Zhijian <lizhijian@fujitsu.com>
> Reviewed-by: Jonathan Cameron <Jonathan.Cameron@huawei.com>
> Reviewed-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
> Signed-off-by: Vishal Verma <vishal.l.verma@intel.com>
> ---
>  drivers/dax/bus.c                       | 38 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-bus-dax | 17 +++++++++++++++
>  2 files changed, 55 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/dax/bus.c b/drivers/dax/bus.c
> index 6226de131d17..f4d3beec507c 100644
> --- a/drivers/dax/bus.c
> +++ b/drivers/dax/bus.c
> @@ -1245,6 +1245,43 @@ static ssize_t numa_node_show(struct device *dev,
>  }
>  static DEVICE_ATTR_RO(numa_node);
>  
> +static ssize_t memmap_on_memory_show(struct device *dev,
> +				     struct device_attribute *attr, char *buf)
> +{
> +	struct dev_dax *dev_dax = to_dev_dax(dev);
> +
> +	return sprintf(buf, "%d\n", dev_dax->memmap_on_memory);
> +}
> +
> +static ssize_t memmap_on_memory_store(struct device *dev,
> +				      struct device_attribute *attr,
> +				      const char *buf, size_t len)
> +{
> +	struct dev_dax *dev_dax = to_dev_dax(dev);
> +	struct dax_device_driver *dax_drv;
> +	ssize_t rc;
> +	bool val;
> +
> +	rc = kstrtobool(buf, &val);
> +	if (rc)
> +		return rc;
> +
> +	if (val == true && !mhp_supports_memmap_on_memory()) {
> +		dev_dbg(dev, "memmap_on_memory is not available\n");
> +		return -EOPNOTSUPP;
> +	}
> +
> +	guard(device)(dev);
> +	dax_drv = to_dax_drv(dev->driver);

Although "struct driver" is the first member of "struct
dax_device_driver", I feel the code is fragile to depends on that.  Can
we check dev->driver directly instead?

--
Best Regards,
Huang, Ying

> +	if (dax_drv && dev_dax->memmap_on_memory != val &&
> +	    dax_drv->type == DAXDRV_KMEM_TYPE)
> +		return -EBUSY;
> +	dev_dax->memmap_on_memory = val;
> +
> +	return len;
> +}
> +static DEVICE_ATTR_RW(memmap_on_memory);
> +
>  static umode_t dev_dax_visible(struct kobject *kobj, struct attribute *a, int n)
>  {
>  	struct device *dev = container_of(kobj, struct device, kobj);
> @@ -1271,6 +1308,7 @@ static struct attribute *dev_dax_attributes[] = {
>  	&dev_attr_align.attr,
>  	&dev_attr_resource.attr,
>  	&dev_attr_numa_node.attr,
> +	&dev_attr_memmap_on_memory.attr,
>  	NULL,
>  };
>  
> diff --git a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-bus-dax b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-bus-dax
> index 6359f7bc9bf4..40d9965733b2 100644
> --- a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-bus-dax
> +++ b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-bus-dax
> @@ -134,3 +134,20 @@ KernelVersion:	v5.1
>  Contact:	nvdimm@lists.linux.dev
>  Description:
>  		(RO) The id attribute indicates the region id of a dax region.
> +
> +What:		/sys/bus/dax/devices/daxX.Y/memmap_on_memory
> +Date:		October, 2023
> +KernelVersion:	v6.8
> +Contact:	nvdimm@lists.linux.dev
> +Description:
> +		(RW) Control the memmap_on_memory setting if the dax device
> +		were to be hotplugged as system memory. This determines whether
> +		the 'altmap' for the hotplugged memory will be placed on the
> +		device being hotplugged (memmap_on_memory=1) or if it will be
> +		placed on regular memory (memmap_on_memory=0). This attribute
> +		must be set before the device is handed over to the 'kmem'
> +		driver (i.e.  hotplugged into system-ram). Additionally, this
> +		depends on CONFIG_MHP_MEMMAP_ON_MEMORY, and a globally enabled
> +		memmap_on_memory parameter for memory_hotplug. This is
> +		typically set on the kernel command line -
> +		memory_hotplug.memmap_on_memory set to 'true' or 'force'."