[PATCH v7 10/12] device-dax: Add a driver for "hmem" devices

Dan Williams
2019-10-16T01:14:40Z

Platform firmware like EFI/ACPI may publish "hmem" platform devices.
Such a device is a performance differentiated memory range likely
reserved for an application specific use case. The driver gives access
to 100% of the capacity via a device-dax mmap instance by default.

However, if over-subscription and other kernel memory management is
desired the resulting dax device can be assigned to the core-mm via the
kmem driver.

This consumes "hmem" devices the producer of "hmem" devices is saved for
a follow-on patch so that it can reference the new CONFIG_DEV_DAX_HMEM
symbol to gate performing the enumeration work.

Cc: Vishal Verma <vishal.l.verma@intel.com>
Cc: Keith Busch <kbusch@kernel.org>
Cc: Dave Jiang <dave.jiang@intel.com>
Reported-by: kbuild test robot <lkp@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
---
drivers/dax/Kconfig | 27 ++++++++++++++++++----
drivers/dax/Makefile | 2 ++
drivers/dax/hmem.c | 56 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
include/linux/memregion.h | 4 +++
4 files changed, 84 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
create mode 100644 drivers/dax/hmem.c

diff --git a/drivers/dax/Kconfig b/drivers/dax/Kconfig
index f33c73e4af41..3b6c06f07326 100644
--- a/drivers/dax/Kconfig
+++ b/drivers/dax/Kconfig
@@ -32,19 +32,36 @@ config DEV_DAX_PMEM

Say M if unsure

+config DEV_DAX_HMEM
+ tristate "HMEM DAX: direct access to 'specific purpose' memory"
+ depends on EFI_SOFT_RESERVE
+ default DEV_DAX
+ help
+ EFI 2.8 platforms, and others, may advertise 'specific purpose'
+ memory. For example, a high bandwidth memory pool. The
+ indication from platform firmware is meant to reserve the
+ memory from typical usage by default. This driver creates
+ device-dax instances for these memory ranges, and that also
+ enables the possibility to assign them to the DEV_DAX_KMEM
+ driver to override the reservation and add them to kernel
+ "System RAM" pool.
+
+ Say M if unsure.
+
config DEV_DAX_KMEM
tristate "KMEM DAX: volatile-use of persistent memory"
default DEV_DAX
depends on DEV_DAX
depends on MEMORY_HOTPLUG # for add_memory() and friends
help
- Support access to persistent memory as if it were RAM. This
- allows easier use of persistent memory by unmodified
- applications.
+ Support access to persistent, or other performance
+ differentiated memory as if it were System RAM. This allows
+ easier use of persistent memory by unmodified applications, or
+ adds core kernel memory services to heterogeneous memory types
+ (HMEM) marked "reserved" by platform firmware.

To use this feature, a DAX device must be unbound from the
- device_dax driver (PMEM DAX) and bound to this kmem driver
- on each boot.
+ device_dax driver and bound to this kmem driver on each boot.

Say N if unsure.

diff --git a/drivers/dax/Makefile b/drivers/dax/Makefile
index 81f7d54dadfb..80065b38b3c4 100644
--- a/drivers/dax/Makefile
+++ b/drivers/dax/Makefile
@@ -2,9 +2,11 @@
obj-$(CONFIG_DAX) += dax.o
obj-$(CONFIG_DEV_DAX) += device_dax.o
obj-$(CONFIG_DEV_DAX_KMEM) += kmem.o
+obj-$(CONFIG_DEV_DAX_HMEM) += dax_hmem.o

dax-y := super.o
dax-y += bus.o
device_dax-y := device.o
+dax_hmem-y := hmem.o

obj-y += pmem/
diff --git a/drivers/dax/hmem.c b/drivers/dax/hmem.c
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..fe7214daf62e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/drivers/dax/hmem.c
@@ -0,0 +1,56 @@
+// SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
+#include <linux/platform_device.h>
+#include <linux/memregion.h>
+#include <linux/module.h>
+#include <linux/pfn_t.h>
+#include "bus.h"
+
+static int dax_hmem_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
+{
+ struct device *dev = &pdev->dev;
+ struct dev_pagemap pgmap = { };
+ struct dax_region *dax_region;
+ struct memregion_info *mri;
+ struct dev_dax *dev_dax;
+ struct resource *res;
+
+ res = platform_get_resource(pdev, IORESOURCE_MEM, 0);
+ if (!res)
+ return -ENOMEM;
+
+ mri = dev->platform_data;
+ memcpy(&pgmap.res, res, sizeof(*res));
+
+ dax_region = alloc_dax_region(dev, pdev->id, res, mri->target_node,
+ PMD_SIZE, PFN_DEV|PFN_MAP);
+ if (!dax_region)
+ return -ENOMEM;
+
+ dev_dax = devm_create_dev_dax(dax_region, 0, &pgmap);
+ if (IS_ERR(dev_dax))
+ return PTR_ERR(dev_dax);
+
+ /* child dev_dax instances now own the lifetime of the dax_region */
+ dax_region_put(dax_region);
+ return 0;
+}
+
+static int dax_hmem_remove(struct platform_device *pdev)
+{
+ /* devm handles teardown */
+ return 0;
+}
+
+static struct platform_driver dax_hmem_driver = {
+ .probe = dax_hmem_probe,
+ .remove = dax_hmem_remove,
+ .driver = {
+ .name = "hmem",
+ },
+};
+
+module_platform_driver(dax_hmem_driver);
+
+MODULE_ALIAS("platform:hmem*");
+MODULE_LICENSE("GPL v2");
+MODULE_AUTHOR("Intel Corporation");
diff --git a/include/linux/memregion.h b/include/linux/memregion.h
index 7de7c0a1444e..e11595256cac 100644
--- a/include/linux/memregion.h
+++ b/include/linux/memregion.h
@@ -4,6 +4,10 @@
#include <linux/types.h>
#include <linux/errno.h>

+struct memregion_info {
+ int target_node;
+};
+
#ifdef CONFIG_MEMREGION
int memregion_alloc(gfp_t gfp);
void memregion_free(int id);