Return-Path: Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:1901 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1731694AbfAIOsA (ORCPT ); Wed, 9 Jan 2019 09:48:00 -0500 From: Pankaj Gupta To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, kvm@vger.kernel.org, qemu-devel@nongnu.org, linux-nvdimm@ml01.01.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org, linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org, linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org, linux-xfs@vger.kernel.org Cc: jack@suse.cz, stefanha@redhat.com, dan.j.williams@intel.com, riel@surriel.com, nilal@redhat.com, kwolf@redhat.com, pbonzini@redhat.com, zwisler@kernel.org, vishal.l.verma@intel.com, dave.jiang@intel.com, david@redhat.com, jmoyer@redhat.com, xiaoguangrong.eric@gmail.com, hch@infradead.org, mst@redhat.com, jasowang@redhat.com, lcapitulino@redhat.com, imammedo@redhat.com, eblake@redhat.com, willy@infradead.org, tytso@mit.edu, adilger.kernel@dilger.ca, darrick.wong@oracle.com, rjw@rjwysocki.net, pagupta@redhat.com Subject: [PATCH v3 0/5] kvm "virtio pmem" device Date: Wed, 9 Jan 2019 20:17:31 +0530 Message-Id: <20190109144736.17452-1-pagupta@redhat.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: linux-ext4-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: This patch series has implementation for "virtio pmem". "virtio pmem" is fake persistent memory(nvdimm) in guest which allows to bypass the guest page cache. This also implements a VIRTIO based asynchronous flush mechanism. Sharing guest kernel driver in this patchset with the changes suggested in v2. Tested with Qemu side device emulation for virtio-pmem [6]. Details of project idea for 'virtio pmem' flushing interface is shared [3] & [4]. Implementation is divided into two parts: New virtio pmem guest driver and qemu code changes for new virtio pmem paravirtualized device. 1. Guest virtio-pmem kernel driver --------------------------------- - Reads persistent memory range from paravirt device and registers with 'nvdimm_bus'. - 'nvdimm/pmem' driver uses this information to allocate persistent memory region and setup filesystem operations to the allocated memory. - virtio pmem driver implements asynchronous flushing interface to flush from guest to host. 2. Qemu virtio-pmem device --------------------------------- - Creates virtio pmem device and exposes a memory range to KVM guest. - At host side this is file backed memory which acts as persistent memory. - Qemu side flush uses aio thread pool API's and virtio for asynchronous guest multi request handling. David Hildenbrand CCed also posted a modified version[6] of qemu virtio-pmem code based on updated Qemu memory device API. Virtio-pmem errors handling: ---------------------------------------- Checked behaviour of virtio-pmem for below types of errors Need suggestions on expected behaviour for handling these errors? - Hardware Errors: Uncorrectable recoverable Errors: a] virtio-pmem: - As per current logic if error page belongs to Qemu process, host MCE handler isolates(hwpoison) that page and send SIGBUS. Qemu SIGBUS handler injects exception to KVM guest. - KVM guest then isolates the page and send SIGBUS to guest userspace process which has mapped the page. b] Existing implementation for ACPI pmem driver: - Handles such errors with MCE notifier and creates a list of bad blocks. Read/direct access DAX operation return EIO if accessed memory page fall in bad block list. - It also starts backgound scrubbing. - Similar functionality can be reused in virtio-pmem with MCE notifier but without scrubbing(no ACPI/ARS)? Need inputs to confirm if this behaviour is ok or needs any change? Changes from PATCH v2: [1] - Disable MAP_SYNC for ext4 & XFS filesystems - [Dan] - Use name 'virtio pmem' in place of 'fake dax' Changes from PATCH v1: [2] - 0-day build test for build dependency on libnvdimm Changes suggested by - [Dan Williams] - Split the driver into two parts virtio & pmem - Move queuing of async block request to block layer - Add "sync" parameter in nvdimm_flush function - Use indirect call for nvdimm_flush - Don’t move declarations to common global header e.g nd.h - nvdimm_flush() return 0 or -EIO if it fails - Teach nsio_rw_bytes() that the flush can fail - Rename nvdimm_flush() to generic_nvdimm_flush() - Use 'nd_region->provider_data' for long dereferencing - Remove virtio_pmem_freeze/restore functions - Remove BSD license text with SPDX license text - Add might_sleep() in virtio_pmem_flush - [Luiz] - Make spin_lock_irqsave() narrow Changes from RFC v3 - Rebase to latest upstream - Luiz - Call ndregion->flush in place of nvdimm_flush- Luiz - kmalloc return check - Luiz - virtqueue full handling - Stefan - Don't map entire virtio_pmem_req to device - Stefan - request leak, correct sizeof req- Stefan - Move declaration to virtio_pmem.c Changes from RFC v2: - Add flush function in the nd_region in place of switching on a flag - Dan & Stefan - Add flush completion function with proper locking and wait for host side flush completion - Stefan & Dan - Keep userspace API in uapi header file - Stefan, MST - Use LE fields & New device id - MST - Indentation & spacing suggestions - MST & Eric - Remove extra header files & add licensing - Stefan Changes from RFC v1: - Reuse existing 'pmem' code for registering persistent memory and other operations instead of creating an entirely new block driver. - Use VIRTIO driver to register memory information with nvdimm_bus and create region_type accordingly. - Call VIRTIO flush from existing pmem driver. Pankaj Gupta (5): libnvdimm: nd_region flush callback support virtio-pmem: Add virtio-pmem guest driver libnvdimm: add nd_region buffered dax_dev flag ext4: disable map_sync for virtio pmem xfs: disable map_sync for virtio pmem [2] https://lkml.org/lkml/2018/8/31/407 [3] https://www.spinics.net/lists/kvm/msg149761.html [4] https://www.spinics.net/lists/kvm/msg153095.html [5] https://lkml.org/lkml/2018/8/31/413 [6] https://marc.info/?l=qemu-devel&m=153555721901824&w=2 drivers/acpi/nfit/core.c | 4 - drivers/dax/super.c | 17 +++++ drivers/nvdimm/claim.c | 6 + drivers/nvdimm/nd.h | 1 drivers/nvdimm/pmem.c | 15 +++- drivers/nvdimm/region_devs.c | 45 +++++++++++++- drivers/nvdimm/virtio_pmem.c | 84 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++ drivers/virtio/Kconfig | 10 +++ drivers/virtio/Makefile | 1 drivers/virtio/pmem.c | 125 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ fs/ext4/file.c | 11 +++ fs/xfs/xfs_file.c | 8 ++ include/linux/dax.h | 9 ++ include/linux/libnvdimm.h | 11 +++ include/linux/virtio_pmem.h | 60 ++++++++++++++++++ include/uapi/linux/virtio_ids.h | 1 include/uapi/linux/virtio_pmem.h | 10 +++ 17 files changed, 406 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)