[PATCH v5 6/8] dax: Check for data cache aliasing at runtime

Mathieu Desnoyers
2024-02-12T16:31:06Z

Replace the following fs/Kconfig:FS_DAX dependency:

depends on !(ARM || MIPS || SPARC)

By a runtime check within alloc_dax(). This runtime check returns
ERR_PTR(-EOPNOTSUPP) if the @ops parameter is non-NULL (which means
the kernel is using an aliased mapping) on an architecture which
has data cache aliasing.

Change the return value from NULL to PTR_ERR(-EOPNOTSUPP) for
CONFIG_DAX=n for consistency.

This is done in preparation for using cpu_dcache_is_aliasing() in a
following change which will properly support architectures which detect
data cache aliasing at runtime.

Fixes: d92576f1167c ("dax: does not work correctly with virtual aliasing caches")
Signed-off-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Reviewed-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Cc: Vishal Verma <vishal.l.verma@intel.com>
Cc: Dave Jiang <dave.jiang@intel.com>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Russell King <linux@armlinux.org.uk>
Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-cxl@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org
Cc: linux-xfs@vger.kernel.org
Cc: dm-devel@lists.linux.dev
Cc: nvdimm@lists.linux.dev
---
drivers/dax/super.c | 10 ++++++++++
fs/Kconfig | 1 -
2 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/dax/super.c b/drivers/dax/super.c
index 205b888d45bf..ce5bffa86bba 100644
--- a/drivers/dax/super.c
+++ b/drivers/dax/super.c
@@ -450,6 +450,16 @@ struct dax_device *alloc_dax(void *private, const struct dax_operations *ops)
dev_t devt;
int minor;

+ /*
+ * Unavailable on architectures with virtually aliased data caches,
+ * except for device-dax (NULL operations pointer), which does
+ * not use aliased mappings from the kernel.
+ */
+ if (ops && (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_ARM) ||
+ IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_MIPS) ||
+ IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_SPARC)))
+ return ERR_PTR(-EOPNOTSUPP);
+
if (WARN_ON_ONCE(ops && !ops->zero_page_range))
return ERR_PTR(-EINVAL);

diff --git a/fs/Kconfig b/fs/Kconfig
index 42837617a55b..e5efdb3b276b 100644
--- a/fs/Kconfig
+++ b/fs/Kconfig
@@ -56,7 +56,6 @@ endif # BLOCK
config FS_DAX
bool "File system based Direct Access (DAX) support"
depends on MMU
- depends on !(ARM || MIPS || SPARC)
depends on ZONE_DEVICE || FS_DAX_LIMITED
select FS_IOMAP
select DAX
--
2.39.2