Merge drm/drm-fixes into drm-misc-fixes

Forwarding to v6.6-rc1.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@suse.de>

Merge tag 'mm-stable-2023-08-28-18-26' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm

Pull MM updates from Andrew Morton:

- Some swap cleanups from Ma Wupeng ("fix WARN_ON in
add_to_a

Merge tag 'mm-stable-2023-08-28-18-26' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm

Pull MM updates from Andrew Morton:

- Some swap cleanups from Ma Wupeng ("fix WARN_ON in
add_to_avail_list")

- Peter Xu has a series (mm/gup: Unify hugetlb, speed up thp") which
reduces the special-case code for handling hugetlb pages in GUP. It
also speeds up GUP handling of transparent hugepages.

- Peng Zhang provides some maple tree speedups ("Optimize the fast path
of mas_store()").

- Sergey Senozhatsky has improved te performance of zsmalloc during
compaction (zsmalloc: small compaction improvements").

- Domenico Cerasuolo has developed additional selftest code for zswap
("selftests: cgroup: add zswap test program").

- xu xin has doe some work on KSM's handling of zero pages. These
changes are mainly to enable the user to better understand the
effectiveness of KSM's treatment of zero pages ("ksm: support
tracking KSM-placed zero-pages").

- Jeff Xu has fixes the behaviour of memfd's
MEMFD_NOEXEC_SCOPE_NOEXEC_ENFORCED sysctl ("mm/memfd: fix sysctl
MEMFD_NOEXEC_SCOPE_NOEXEC_ENFORCED").

- David Howells has fixed an fscache optimization ("mm, netfs, fscache:
Stop read optimisation when folio removed from pagecache").

- Axel Rasmussen has given userfaultfd the ability to simulate memory
poisoning ("add UFFDIO_POISON to simulate memory poisoning with
UFFD").

- Miaohe Lin has contributed some routine maintenance work on the
memory-failure code ("mm: memory-failure: remove unneeded PageHuge()
check").

- Peng Zhang has contributed some maintenance work on the maple tree
code ("Improve the validation for maple tree and some cleanup").

- Hugh Dickins has optimized the collapsing of shmem or file pages into
THPs ("mm: free retracted page table by RCU").

- Jiaqi Yan has a patch series which permits us to use the healthy
subpages within a hardware poisoned huge page for general purposes
("Improve hugetlbfs read on HWPOISON hugepages").

- Kemeng Shi has done some maintenance work on the pagetable-check code
("Remove unused parameters in page_table_check").

- More folioification work from Matthew Wilcox ("More filesystem folio
conversions for 6.6"), ("Followup folio conversions for zswap"). And
from ZhangPeng ("Convert several functions in page_io.c to use a
folio").

- page_ext cleanups from Kemeng Shi ("minor cleanups for page_ext").

- Baoquan He has converted some architectures to use the
GENERIC_IOREMAP ioremap()/iounmap() code ("mm: ioremap: Convert
architectures to take GENERIC_IOREMAP way").

- Anshuman Khandual has optimized arm64 tlb shootdown ("arm64: support
batched/deferred tlb shootdown during page reclamation/migration").

- Better maple tree lockdep checking from Liam Howlett ("More strict
maple tree lockdep"). Liam also developed some efficiency
improvements ("Reduce preallocations for maple tree").

- Cleanup and optimization to the secondary IOMMU TLB invalidation,
from Alistair Popple ("Invalidate secondary IOMMU TLB on permission
upgrade").

- Ryan Roberts fixes some arm64 MM selftest issues ("selftests/mm fixes
for arm64").

- Kemeng Shi provides some maintenance work on the compaction code
("Two minor cleanups for compaction").

- Some reduction in mmap_lock pressure from Matthew Wilcox ("Handle
most file-backed faults under the VMA lock").

- Aneesh Kumar contributes code to use the vmemmap optimization for DAX
on ppc64, under some circumstances ("Add support for DAX vmemmap
optimization for ppc64").

- page-ext cleanups from Kemeng Shi ("add page_ext_data to get client
data in page_ext"), ("minor cleanups to page_ext header").

- Some zswap cleanups from Johannes Weiner ("mm: zswap: three
cleanups").

- kmsan cleanups from ZhangPeng ("minor cleanups for kmsan").

- VMA handling cleanups from Kefeng Wang ("mm: convert to
vma_is_initial_heap/stack()").

- DAMON feature work from SeongJae Park ("mm/damon/sysfs-schemes:
implement DAMOS tried total bytes file"), ("Extend DAMOS filters for
address ranges and DAMON monitoring targets").

- Compaction work from Kemeng Shi ("Fixes and cleanups to compaction").

- Liam Howlett has improved the maple tree node replacement code
("maple_tree: Change replacement strategy").

- ZhangPeng has a general code cleanup - use the K() macro more widely
("cleanup with helper macro K()").

- Aneesh Kumar brings memmap-on-memory to ppc64 ("Add support for
memmap on memory feature on ppc64").

- pagealloc cleanups from Kemeng Shi ("Two minor cleanups for pcp list
in page_alloc"), ("Two minor cleanups for get pageblock
migratetype").

- Vishal Moola introduces a memory descriptor for page table tracking,
"struct ptdesc" ("Split ptdesc from struct page").

- memfd selftest maintenance work from Aleksa Sarai ("memfd: cleanups
for vm.memfd_noexec").

- MM include file rationalization from Hugh Dickins ("arch: include
asm/cacheflush.h in asm/hugetlb.h").

- THP debug output fixes from Hugh Dickins ("mm,thp: fix sloppy text
output").

- kmemleak improvements from Xiaolei Wang ("mm/kmemleak: use
object_cache instead of kmemleak_initialized").

- More folio-related cleanups from Matthew Wilcox ("Remove _folio_dtor
and _folio_order").

- A VMA locking scalability improvement from Suren Baghdasaryan
("Per-VMA lock support for swap and userfaults").

- pagetable handling cleanups from Matthew Wilcox ("New page table
range API").

- A batch of swap/thp cleanups from David Hildenbrand ("mm/swap: stop
using page->private on tail pages for THP_SWAP + cleanups").

- Cleanups and speedups to the hugetlb fault handling from Matthew
Wilcox ("Change calling convention for ->huge_fault").

- Matthew Wilcox has also done some maintenance work on the MM
subsystem documentation ("Improve mm documentation").

* tag 'mm-stable-2023-08-28-18-26' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (489 commits)
maple_tree: shrink struct maple_tree
maple_tree: clean up mas_wr_append()
secretmem: convert page_is_secretmem() to folio_is_secretmem()
nios2: fix flush_dcache_page() for usage from irq context
hugetlb: add documentation for vma_kernel_pagesize()
mm: add orphaned kernel-doc to the rst files.
mm: fix clean_record_shared_mapping_range kernel-doc
mm: fix get_mctgt_type() kernel-doc
mm: fix kernel-doc warning from tlb_flush_rmaps()
mm: remove enum page_entry_size
mm: allow ->huge_fault() to be called without the mmap_lock held
mm: move PMD_ORDER to pgtable.h
mm: remove checks for pte_index
memcg: remove duplication detection for mem_cgroup_uncharge_swap
mm/huge_memory: work on folio->swap instead of page->private when splitting folio
mm/swap: inline folio_set_swap_entry() and folio_swap_entry()
mm/swap: use dedicated entry for swap in folio
mm/swap: stop using page->private on tail pages for THP_SWAP
selftests/mm: fix WARNING comparing pointer to 0
selftests: cgroup: fix test_kmem_memcg_deletion kernel mem check
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memory tier: rename destroy_memory_type() to put_memory_type()

It appears that destroy_memory_type() isn't a very good name because we
usually will not free the memory_type here. So rename it to a

memory tier: rename destroy_memory_type() to put_memory_type()

It appears that destroy_memory_type() isn't a very good name because we
usually will not free the memory_type here. So rename it to a more
appropriate name i.e. put_memory_type().

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230706063905.543800-1-linmiaohe@huawei.com
Signed-off-by: Miaohe Lin <linmiaohe@huawei.com>
Suggested-by: Huang, Ying <ying.huang@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: "Huang, Ying" <ying.huang@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Xiao Yang <yangx.jy@fujitsu.com>
Cc: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Cc: Dave Jiang <dave.jiang@intel.com>
Cc: Vishal Verma <vishal.l.verma@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>

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Merge drm/drm-next into drm-intel-next

Catching-up with drm-next and drm-intel-gt-next.
It will unblock a code refactor around the platform
definitions (names vs acronyms).

Signed-off-by: Rodrigo V

Merge drm/drm-next into drm-intel-next

Catching-up with drm-next and drm-intel-gt-next.
It will unblock a code refactor around the platform
definitions (names vs acronyms).

Signed-off-by: Rodrigo Vivi <rodrigo.vivi@intel.com>

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Merge drm/drm-next into drm-intel-gt-next

Need to pull in b3e4aae612ec ("drm/i915/hdcp: Modify hdcp_gsc_message msg sending mechanism") as
a dependency for https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/series/1

Merge drm/drm-next into drm-intel-gt-next

Need to pull in b3e4aae612ec ("drm/i915/hdcp: Modify hdcp_gsc_message msg sending mechanism") as
a dependency for https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/series/121735/

Signed-off-by: Joonas Lahtinen <joonas.lahtinen@linux.intel.com>

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Merge drm/drm-next into drm-misc-next

Backmerging to get v6.5-rc2.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@suse.de>

ASoC: Merge v6.5-rc2

Get a similar baseline to my other branches, and fixes for people using
the branch.

Merge v6.5-rc1 into drm-misc-fixes

Boris needs 6.5-rc1 in drm-misc-fixes to prevent a conflict.

Signed-off-by: Maxime Ripard <mripard@kernel.org>

Merge branch 'master' into mm-hotfixes-stable

Merge tag 'libnvdimm-for-6.5' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/nvdimm/nvdimm

Pull nvdimm and DAX updates from Vishal Verma:
"This is mostly small cleanups and fixes, with the bigges

Merge tag 'libnvdimm-for-6.5' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/nvdimm/nvdimm

Pull nvdimm and DAX updates from Vishal Verma:
"This is mostly small cleanups and fixes, with the biggest change being
the change to the DAX fault handler allowing it to return
VM_FAULT_HWPOISON.

Summary:

- DAX fixes and cleanups including a use after free, extra
references, and device unregistration, and a redundant variable.

- Allow the DAX fault handler to return VM_FAULT_HWPOISON

- A few libnvdimm cleanups such as making some functions and
variables static where sufficient.

- Add a few missing prototypes for wrapped functions in
tools/testing/nvdimm"

* tag 'libnvdimm-for-6.5' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/nvdimm/nvdimm:
dax: enable dax fault handler to report VM_FAULT_HWPOISON
nvdimm: make security_show static
nvdimm: make nd_class variable static
dax/kmem: Pass valid argument to memory_group_register_static
fsdax: remove redundant variable 'error'
dax: Cleanup extra dax_region references
dax: Introduce alloc_dev_dax_id()
dax: Use device_unregister() in unregister_dax_mapping()
dax: Fix dax_mapping_release() use after free
tools/testing/nvdimm: Drop empty platform remove function
libnvdimm: mark 'security_show' static again
testing: nvdimm: add missing prototypes for wrapped functions
dax: fix missing-prototype warnings

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Merge branch 'for-6.5/dax-cleanups' into nvdimm-for-next

The reference counting of dax_region objects is needlessly complicated,
has lead to confusion [1], and has hidden a bug [2]. While testing th

Merge branch 'for-6.5/dax-cleanups' into nvdimm-for-next

The reference counting of dax_region objects is needlessly complicated,
has lead to confusion [1], and has hidden a bug [2]. While testing the
cleanup for those issues, a CONFIG_DEBUG_KOBJECT_RELEASE test run
uncovered a use-after-free in dax_mapping_release(). Clean all of that
up.

Thanks to Yongqiang, Paul, and Ira for their analysis.

Additionally, clean up a redundant variable in fsdax, and fix memory
hotplug registration in the kmem driver.

[1]: http://lore.kernel.org/r/20221203095858.612027-1-liuyongqiang13@huawei.com
[2]: http://lore.kernel.org/r/3cf0890b-4eb0-e70e-cd9c-2ecc3d496263@hpe.com

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dax/kmem: Pass valid argument to memory_group_register_static

memory_group_register_static takes maximum number of pages as the argument
while dev_dax_kmem_probe passes total_len (in bytes) as the a

dax/kmem: Pass valid argument to memory_group_register_static

memory_group_register_static takes maximum number of pages as the argument
while dev_dax_kmem_probe passes total_len (in bytes) as the argument.

IIUC, I don't see any crash/panic impact as such. As,
memory_group_register_static just set the max_pages limit which is used in
auto_movable_zone_for_pfn to determine the zone.

which might cause these condition to behave differently,

This will be true always so jump will happen to kernel_zone
...
if (!auto_movable_can_online_movable(NUMA_NO_NODE, group, nr_pages))
goto kernel_zone;

...
kernel_zone:
return default_kernel_zone_for_pfn(nid, pfn, nr_pages);

Here, In below, zone_intersects compare range will be larger as nr_pages
will be higher (derived from total_len passed in dev_dax_kmem_probe).

...
static struct zone *default_kernel_zone_for_pfn(int nid, unsigned long start_pfn,
unsigned long nr_pages)
{
struct pglist_data *pgdat = NODE_DATA(nid);
int zid;

for (zid = 0; zid < ZONE_NORMAL; zid++) {
struct zone *zone = &pgdat->node_zones[zid];

if (zone_intersects(zone, start_pfn, nr_pages))
return zone;
}

return &pgdat->node_zones[ZONE_NORMAL];
}

Incorrect zone will be returned here, which in later time might cause bigger
problem.

Fixes: eedf634aac3b ("dax/kmem: use a single static memory group for a single probed unit")
Signed-off-by: Tarun Sahu <tsahu@linux.ibm.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230621155025.370672-1-tsahu@linux.ibm.com
Reviewed-by: Vishal Verma <vishal.l.verma@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Vishal Verma <vishal.l.verma@intel.com>

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Merge branch 'next' into for-linus

Prepare input updates for 6.4 merge window.

Merge branch 'for-6.4/amd-sfh' into for-linus

- assorted functional fixes for amd-sfh driver (Basavaraj Natikar)

Merge drm/drm-next into drm-intel-gt-next

Need to pull in commit from drm-next (earlier in drm-intel-next):

1eca0778f4b3 ("drm/i915: add struct i915_dsm to wrap dsm members together")

In order to

Merge drm/drm-next into drm-intel-gt-next

Need to pull in commit from drm-next (earlier in drm-intel-next):

1eca0778f4b3 ("drm/i915: add struct i915_dsm to wrap dsm members together")

In order to merge following patch to drm-intel-gt-next:

https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/530942/?series=114925&rev=6

Signed-off-by: Joonas Lahtinen <joonas.lahtinen@linux.intel.com>

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Merge drm/drm-next into drm-intel-next

Catch up with 6.3-rc cycle...

Signed-off-by: Rodrigo Vivi <rodrigo.vivi@intel.com>

Merge remote-tracking branch 'drm/drm-next' into msm-next

Merge drm-next into msm-next to pick up external clk and PM dependencies
for improved a6xx GPU reset sequence.

Signed-off-by: Rob Clark <ro

Merge remote-tracking branch 'drm/drm-next' into msm-next

Merge drm-next into msm-next to pick up external clk and PM dependencies
for improved a6xx GPU reset sequence.

Signed-off-by: Rob Clark <robdclark@chromium.org>

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Merge tag 'v6.3-rc2' into next

Merge with mainline to get of_property_present() and other newer APIs.

Merge drm/drm-fixes into drm-misc-fixes

Backmerging to get latest upstream.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@suse.de>

Merge drm/drm-next into drm-misc-next

Backmerging to get v6.3-rc1 and sync with the other DRM trees.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@suse.de>

Merge remote-tracking branch 'acme/perf-tools' into perf-tools-next

To pick up perf-tools fixes just merged upstream.

Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>

Merge tag 'cxl-for-6.3' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/cxl/cxl

Pull Compute Express Link (CXL) updates from Dan Williams:
"To date Linux has been dependent on platform-firmware to

Merge tag 'cxl-for-6.3' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/cxl/cxl

Pull Compute Express Link (CXL) updates from Dan Williams:
"To date Linux has been dependent on platform-firmware to map CXL RAM
regions and handle events / errors from devices. With this update we
can now parse / update the CXL memory layout, and report events /
errors from devices. This is a precursor for the CXL subsystem to
handle the end-to-end "RAS" flow for CXL memory. i.e. the flow that
for DDR-attached-DRAM is handled by the EDAC driver where it maps
system physical address events to a field-replaceable-unit (FRU /
endpoint device). In general, CXL has the potential to standardize
what has historically been a pile of memory-controller-specific error
handling logic.

Another change of note is the default policy for handling RAM-backed
device-dax instances. Previously the default access mode was "device",
mmap(2) a device special file to access memory. The new default is
"kmem" where the address range is assigned to the core-mm via
add_memory_driver_managed(). This saves typical users from wondering
why their platform memory is not visible via free(1) and stuck behind
a device-file. At the same time it allows expert users to deploy
policy to, for example, get dedicated access to high performance
memory, or hide low performance memory from general purpose kernel
allocations. This affects not only CXL, but also systems with
high-bandwidth-memory that platform-firmware tags with the
EFI_MEMORY_SP (special purpose) designation.

Summary:

- CXL RAM region enumeration: instantiate 'struct cxl_region' objects
for platform firmware created memory regions

- CXL RAM region provisioning: complement the existing PMEM region
creation support with RAM region support

- "Soft Reservation" policy change: Online (memory hot-add)
soft-reserved memory (EFI_MEMORY_SP) by default, but still allow
for setting aside such memory for dedicated access via device-dax.

- CXL Events and Interrupts: Takeover CXL event handling from
platform-firmware (ACPI calls this CXL Memory Error Reporting) and
export CXL Events via Linux Trace Events.

- Convey CXL _OSC results to drivers: Similar to PCI, let the CXL
subsystem interrogate the result of CXL _OSC negotiation.

- Emulate CXL DVSEC Range Registers as "decoders": Allow for
first-generation devices that pre-date the definition of the CXL
HDM Decoder Capability to translate the CXL DVSEC Range Registers
into 'struct cxl_decoder' objects.

- Set timestamp: Per spec, set the device timestamp in case of
hotplug, or if platform-firwmare failed to set it.

- General fixups: linux-next build issues, non-urgent fixes for
pre-production hardware, unit test fixes, spelling and debug
message improvements"

* tag 'cxl-for-6.3' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/cxl/cxl: (66 commits)
dax/kmem: Fix leak of memory-hotplug resources
cxl/mem: Add kdoc param for event log driver state
cxl/trace: Add serial number to trace points
cxl/trace: Add host output to trace points
cxl/trace: Standardize device information output
cxl/pci: Remove locked check for dvsec_range_allowed()
cxl/hdm: Add emulation when HDM decoders are not committed
cxl/hdm: Create emulated cxl_hdm for devices that do not have HDM decoders
cxl/hdm: Emulate HDM decoder from DVSEC range registers
cxl/pci: Refactor cxl_hdm_decode_init()
cxl/port: Export cxl_dvsec_rr_decode() to cxl_port
cxl/pci: Break out range register decoding from cxl_hdm_decode_init()
cxl: add RAS status unmasking for CXL
cxl: remove unnecessary calling of pci_enable_pcie_error_reporting()
dax/hmem: build hmem device support as module if possible
dax: cxl: add CXL_REGION dependency
cxl: avoid returning uninitialized error code
cxl/pmem: Fix nvdimm registration races
cxl/mem: Fix UAPI command comment
cxl/uapi: Tag commands from cxl_query_cmd()
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dax/kmem: Fix leak of memory-hotplug resources

While experimenting with CXL region removal the following corruption of
/proc/iomem appeared.

Before:
f010000000-f04fffffff : CXL Window 0
f01000000

dax/kmem: Fix leak of memory-hotplug resources

While experimenting with CXL region removal the following corruption of
/proc/iomem appeared.

Before:
f010000000-f04fffffff : CXL Window 0
f010000000-f02fffffff : region4
f010000000-f02fffffff : dax4.0
f010000000-f02fffffff : System RAM (kmem)

After (modprobe -r cxl_test):
f010000000-f02fffffff : **redacted binary garbage**
f010000000-f02fffffff : System RAM (kmem)

...and testing further the same is visible with persistent memory
assigned to kmem:

Before:
480000000-243fffffff : Persistent Memory
480000000-57e1fffff : namespace3.0
580000000-243fffffff : dax3.0
580000000-243fffffff : System RAM (kmem)

After (ndctl disable-region all):
480000000-243fffffff : Persistent Memory
580000000-243fffffff : ***redacted binary garbage***
580000000-243fffffff : System RAM (kmem)

The corrupted data is from a use-after-free of the "dax4.0" and "dax3.0"
resources, and it also shows that the "System RAM (kmem)" resource is
not being removed. The bug does not appear after "modprobe -r kmem", it
requires the parent of "dax4.0" and "dax3.0" to be removed which
re-parents the leaked "System RAM (kmem)" instances. Those in turn
reference the freed resource as a parent.

First up for the fix is release_mem_region_adjustable() needs to
reliably delete the resource inserted by add_memory_driver_managed().
That is thwarted by a check for IORESOURCE_SYSRAM that predates the
dax/kmem driver, from commit:

65c78784135f ("kernel, resource: check for IORESOURCE_SYSRAM in release_mem_region_adjustable")

That appears to be working around the behavior of HMM's
"MEMORY_DEVICE_PUBLIC" facility that has since been deleted. With that
check removed the "System RAM (kmem)" resource gets removed, but
corruption still occurs occasionally because the "dax" resource is not
reliably removed.

The dax range information is freed before the device is unregistered, so
the driver can not reliably recall (another use after free) what it is
meant to release. Lastly if that use after free got lucky, the driver
was covering up the leak of "System RAM (kmem)" due to its use of
release_resource() which detaches, but does not free, child resources.
The switch to remove_resource() forces remove_memory() to be responsible
for the deletion of the resource added by add_memory_driver_managed().

Fixes: c2f3011ee697 ("device-dax: add an allocation interface for device-dax instances")
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: Oscar Salvador <osalvador@suse.de>
Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Cc: Pavel Tatashin <pasha.tatashin@soleen.com>
Reviewed-by: Vishal Verma <vishal.l.verma@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Pasha Tatashin <pasha.tatashin@soleen.com>
Reviewed-by: Dave Jiang <dave.jiang@intel.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/167653656244.3147810.5705900882794040229.stgit@dwillia2-xfh.jf.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>

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Merge branch 'for-6.3/cxl-ram-region' into cxl/next

Include the support for enumerating and provisioning ram regions for
v6.3. This also include a default policy change for ram / volatile
device-dax

Merge branch 'for-6.3/cxl-ram-region' into cxl/next

Include the support for enumerating and provisioning ram regions for
v6.3. This also include a default policy change for ram / volatile
device-dax instances to assign them to the dax_kmem driver by default.

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dax: Assign RAM regions to memory-hotplug by default

The default mode for device-dax instances is backwards for RAM-regions
as evidenced by the fact that it tends to catch end users by surprise.
"Wh

dax: Assign RAM regions to memory-hotplug by default

The default mode for device-dax instances is backwards for RAM-regions
as evidenced by the fact that it tends to catch end users by surprise.
"Where is my memory?". Recall that platforms are increasingly shipping
with performance-differentiated memory pools beyond typical DRAM and
NUMA effects. This includes HBM (high-bandwidth-memory) and CXL (dynamic
interleave, varied media types, and future fabric attached
possibilities).

For this reason the EFI_MEMORY_SP (EFI Special Purpose Memory => Linux
'Soft Reserved') attribute is expected to be applied to all memory-pools
that are not the general purpose pool. This designation gives an
Operating System a chance to defer usage of a memory pool until later in
the boot process where its performance properties can be interrogated
and administrator policy can be applied.

'Soft Reserved' memory can be anything from too limited and precious to
be part of the general purpose pool (HBM), too slow to host hot kernel
data structures (some PMEM media), or anything in between. However, in
the absence of an explicit policy, the memory should at least be made
usable by default. The current device-dax default hides all
non-general-purpose memory behind a device interface.

The expectation is that the distribution of users that want the memory
online by default vs device-dedicated-access by default follows the
Pareto principle. A small number of enlightened users may want to do
userspace memory management through a device, but general users just
want the kernel to make the memory available with an option to get more
advanced later.

Arrange for all device-dax instances not backed by PMEM to default to
attaching to the dax_kmem driver. From there the baseline memory hotplug
policy (CONFIG_MEMORY_HOTPLUG_DEFAULT_ONLINE / memhp_default_state=)
gates whether the memory comes online or stays offline. Where, if it
stays offline, it can be reliably converted back to device-mode where it
can be partitioned, or fronted by a userspace allocator.

So, if someone wants device-dax instances for their 'Soft Reserved'
memory:

1/ Build a kernel with CONFIG_MEMORY_HOTPLUG_DEFAULT_ONLINE=n or boot
with memhp_default_state=offline, or roll the dice and hope that the
kernel has not pinned a page in that memory before step 2.

2/ Write a udev rule to convert the target dax device(s) from
'system-ram' mode to 'devdax' mode:

daxctl reconfigure-device $dax -m devdax -f

Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Gregory Price <gregory.price@memverge.com>
Tested-by: Fan Ni <fan.ni@samsung.com>
Reviewed-by: Dave Jiang <dave.jiang@intel.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/167602003336.1924368.6809503401422267885.stgit@dwillia2-xfh.jf.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>

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