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[02/15] libnvdimm: infrastructure for btt devices

Message ID 20150617235458.12943.23425.stgit@dwillia2-desk3.amr.corp.intel.com (mailing list archive)
State Superseded
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Commit Message

Dan Williams June 17, 2015, 11:54 p.m. UTC
Block devices from an nd bus, in addition to accepting "struct bio"
based requests, also have the capability to perform byte-aligned
accesses.  By default only the bio/block interface is used.  However, if
another driver can make effective use of the byte-aligned capability it
can claim the block interface and use the byte-aligned ->rw_bytes()
interface.

The BTT driver is the initial first consumer of this mechanism to allow
layering atomic sector update guarantees on top of ->rw_bytes() capable
libnvdimm-block-devices, or their partitions.

Cc: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
---
 drivers/nvdimm/Kconfig     |    3 
 drivers/nvdimm/Makefile    |    1 
 drivers/nvdimm/btt.h       |   45 +++++
 drivers/nvdimm/btt_devs.c  |  431 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 drivers/nvdimm/bus.c       |   82 ++++++++
 drivers/nvdimm/core.c      |   20 ++
 drivers/nvdimm/nd-core.h   |   34 +++
 drivers/nvdimm/nd.h        |   19 ++
 drivers/nvdimm/pmem.c      |    6 -
 include/uapi/linux/ndctl.h |    2 
 10 files changed, 637 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
 create mode 100644 drivers/nvdimm/btt.h
 create mode 100644 drivers/nvdimm/btt_devs.c

Comments

Christoph Hellwig June 22, 2015, 4:34 p.m. UTC | #1
FYI, the mess calls into libnvdimm for each register pmem or blk device
which then walks partitions to find your btt metadata is an absolutely
no go and suggest that the layering is completely fucked up.

Please go and revisit it for a sensible model, where the different
drivers attach to a nvdimm bus instead of stacking up with a little
detour through the block layer.  From all that it's pretty clear
pmem, blk and btt should be peers in the hierarchy.
Dan Williams June 22, 2015, 4:48 p.m. UTC | #2
On Mon, Jun 22, 2015 at 9:34 AM, Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> wrote:
> FYI, the mess calls into libnvdimm for each register pmem or blk device
> which then walks partitions to find your btt metadata is an absolutely
> no go and suggest that the layering is completely fucked up.

Only if you abandon BTT on partitions, which at this point it seems
you're boldly committed to doing.  It's unacceptable to drop BTT on
the floor so I'll take a look at making BTT per-disk only for 4.2.
Christoph Hellwig June 22, 2015, 4:48 p.m. UTC | #3
On Mon, Jun 22, 2015 at 09:48:03AM -0700, Dan Williams wrote:
> Only if you abandon BTT on partitions, which at this point it seems
> you're boldly committed to doing.  It's unacceptable to drop BTT on
> the floor so I'll take a look at making BTT per-disk only for 4.2.

If by partitions you mean block layer partitions: yes.  If by partitions
you mean subdivision of nvdimms: no.
Jeff Moyer June 22, 2015, 6:32 p.m. UTC | #4
Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> writes:

> On Mon, Jun 22, 2015 at 09:48:03AM -0700, Dan Williams wrote:
>> Only if you abandon BTT on partitions, which at this point it seems
>> you're boldly committed to doing.  It's unacceptable to drop BTT on
>> the floor so I'll take a look at making BTT per-disk only for 4.2.
>
> If by partitions you mean block layer partitions: yes.  If by partitions
> you mean subdivision of nvdimms: no.

How will this subdivision be recorded?  Not all NVDIMMs support the
label specification.

Sysadmins are already familiar with partitions;  I'm not sure why we'd
deviate from that here.  What am I missing?

-Jeff
Dan Williams June 22, 2015, 7:02 p.m. UTC | #5
On Mon, Jun 22, 2015 at 11:32 AM, Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com> wrote:
> Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> writes:
>
>> On Mon, Jun 22, 2015 at 09:48:03AM -0700, Dan Williams wrote:
>>> Only if you abandon BTT on partitions, which at this point it seems
>>> you're boldly committed to doing.  It's unacceptable to drop BTT on
>>> the floor so I'll take a look at making BTT per-disk only for 4.2.
>>
>> If by partitions you mean block layer partitions: yes.  If by partitions
>> you mean subdivision of nvdimms: no.
>
> How will this subdivision be recorded?  Not all NVDIMMs support the
> label specification.

...and the ones that do only use labels for resolving aliasing, not
partitioning.

> Sysadmins are already familiar with partitions;  I'm not sure why we'd
> deviate from that here.  What am I missing?

I don't see the need to re-invent partitioning which is the path this
requested rework is putting us on...

However, when the need arises for smaller granularity BTT we can have
the partition fight then.  To be clear, I believe that need is already
here today, but I'm not in a position to push that agenda at this late
date.
Jeff Moyer June 22, 2015, 7:09 p.m. UTC | #6
Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com> writes:

> On Mon, Jun 22, 2015 at 11:32 AM, Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com> wrote:
>> Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> writes:
>>
>>> On Mon, Jun 22, 2015 at 09:48:03AM -0700, Dan Williams wrote:
>>>> Only if you abandon BTT on partitions, which at this point it seems
>>>> you're boldly committed to doing.  It's unacceptable to drop BTT on
>>>> the floor so I'll take a look at making BTT per-disk only for 4.2.
>>>
>>> If by partitions you mean block layer partitions: yes.  If by partitions
>>> you mean subdivision of nvdimms: no.
>>
>> How will this subdivision be recorded?  Not all NVDIMMs support the
>> label specification.
>
> ...and the ones that do only use labels for resolving aliasing, not
> partitioning.
>
>> Sysadmins are already familiar with partitions;  I'm not sure why we'd
>> deviate from that here.  What am I missing?
>
> I don't see the need to re-invent partitioning which is the path this
> requested rework is putting us on...
>
> However, when the need arises for smaller granularity BTT we can have
> the partition fight then.  To be clear, I believe that need is already
> here today, but I'm not in a position to push that agenda at this late
> date.

The xfs example is enough to convince me that we need to support btt on
a partition right now.  Otherwise, for RHEL at least, dax on xfs simply
won't be supported.

-Jeff
Christoph Hellwig June 23, 2015, 10:10 a.m. UTC | #7
On Mon, Jun 22, 2015 at 02:32:53PM -0400, Jeff Moyer wrote:
> How will this subdivision be recorded?  Not all NVDIMMs support the
> label specification.

Labeks woud be preferable, it's a pity the spec is so vague.

> Sysadmins are already familiar with partitions;  I'm not sure why we'd
> deviate from that here.  What am I missing?

The layering architecture I guess?
Christoph Hellwig June 23, 2015, 10:19 a.m. UTC | #8
On Mon, Jun 22, 2015 at 12:02:54PM -0700, Dan Williams wrote:
> I don't see the need to re-invent partitioning which is the path this
> requested rework is putting us on...
> 
> However, when the need arises for smaller granularity BTT we can have
> the partition fight then.  To be clear, I believe that need is already
> here today, but I'm not in a position to push that agenda at this late
> date.


Instead of all this complaining and moaning let's figure out what
architecture you'd actually want.  The one I had in mind is:

+------------------------------+
|  block layer (& partitions)  |
+---------------+--------------+--------------------+
|  pmem driver  |  btt driver  |  other consumers   |
+---------------+--------------+--------------------+
|        pmem API through libnvdimm                 |
+---------------------------------------------------+

If you really want btt to stack on top of pmem it really
needs to be moved out entirely of libnvdimm and be a
generic block driver just using ->rw_bytes, e.g.:


+------------------------------+
|  btt driver                  |
+------------------------------+
|  block layer (& partitions)  |
+------------------------------+--------------------+
|  pmem driver                 | other consumers    |
+------------------------------+--------------------+
|        pmem API through libnvdimm                 |
+---------------------------------------------------+

Not the current mess where btt pretends to be a stacking block
driver but still ties into libnvdimm.

Add blk mode access to all the schemes, but it's really just
another next to the pmem driver each time.  In fact while
looking over the code a bit more I start to wonder why
we need the blk driver at all - just hook into the nfit
do_io routines instead of the low-level API based on what
libnvdimm provides, and don't offer DAX for it.  It mostly
seems duplicate code.
Christoph Hellwig June 23, 2015, 10:20 a.m. UTC | #9
On Mon, Jun 22, 2015 at 03:09:02PM -0400, Jeff Moyer wrote:
> The xfs example is enough to convince me that we need to support btt on
> a partition right now.  Otherwise, for RHEL at least, dax on xfs simply
> won't be supported.

Seems like an odd stance to support some new code coming out of the
blue in favor of something developed by RH for years and already shipping
as the default filesystem at the major competitor..
Dan Williams June 23, 2015, 3:19 p.m. UTC | #10
On Tue, Jun 23, 2015 at 3:19 AM, Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 22, 2015 at 12:02:54PM -0700, Dan Williams wrote:
>> I don't see the need to re-invent partitioning which is the path this
>> requested rework is putting us on...
>>
>> However, when the need arises for smaller granularity BTT we can have
>> the partition fight then.  To be clear, I believe that need is already
>> here today, but I'm not in a position to push that agenda at this late
>> date.
>
>
> Instead of all this complaining and moaning let's figure out what
> architecture you'd actually want.  The one I had in mind is:
>
> +------------------------------+
> |  block layer (& partitions)  |
> +---------------+--------------+--------------------+
> |  pmem driver  |  btt driver  |  other consumers   |
> +---------------+--------------+--------------------+
> |        pmem API through libnvdimm                 |
> +---------------------------------------------------+
>

I've got this mostly coded up.  The nice property is that BTTs now
become another flavor of the same namespace.

> If you really want btt to stack on top of pmem it really
> needs to be moved out entirely of libnvdimm and be a
> generic block driver just using ->rw_bytes, e.g.:
>
>
> +------------------------------+
> |  btt driver                  |
> +------------------------------+
> |  block layer (& partitions)  |
> +------------------------------+--------------------+
> |  pmem driver                 | other consumers    |
> +------------------------------+--------------------+
> |        pmem API through libnvdimm                 |
> +---------------------------------------------------+
>
> Not the current mess where btt pretends to be a stacking block
> driver but still ties into libnvdimm.

That tie was only to enable autodetect so that we don't need to run a
BTT assembly step from an initramfs just to get an NVDIMM up and
running.  It was a convenience, not a requirement.

> Add blk mode access to all the schemes, but it's really just
> another next to the pmem driver each time.  In fact while
> looking over the code a bit more I start to wonder why
> we need the blk driver at all - just hook into the nfit
> do_io routines instead of the low-level API based on what
> libnvdimm provides, and don't offer DAX for it.  It mostly
> seems duplicate code.

Mostly, it does handle dis-contiguous dimm-physical-address ranges,
but you're right we might be able to unify it in the coming cycle.
Dan Williams June 23, 2015, 8:33 p.m. UTC | #11
On Tue, Jun 23, 2015 at 8:19 AM, Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 23, 2015 at 3:19 AM, Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> wrote:
>> On Mon, Jun 22, 2015 at 12:02:54PM -0700, Dan Williams wrote:
>>> I don't see the need to re-invent partitioning which is the path this
>>> requested rework is putting us on...
>>>
>>> However, when the need arises for smaller granularity BTT we can have
>>> the partition fight then.  To be clear, I believe that need is already
>>> here today, but I'm not in a position to push that agenda at this late
>>> date.
>>
>>
>> Instead of all this complaining and moaning let's figure out what
>> architecture you'd actually want.  The one I had in mind is:
>>
>> +------------------------------+
>> |  block layer (& partitions)  |
>> +---------------+--------------+--------------------+
>> |  pmem driver  |  btt driver  |  other consumers   |
>> +---------------+--------------+--------------------+
>> |        pmem API through libnvdimm                 |
>> +---------------------------------------------------+
>>
>
> I've got this mostly coded up.  The nice property is that BTTs now
> become another flavor of the same namespace.

This approach has grown on me since yesterday.  I neglected to realize
that we can carve out a BLK-mode namespace to be a BTT enabled log
device if the need arises to satisfy what BTT on a partition was doing
previously.
Christoph Hellwig June 24, 2015, 12:10 p.m. UTC | #12
On Tue, Jun 23, 2015 at 08:19:57AM -0700, Dan Williams wrote:
> That tie was only to enable autodetect so that we don't need to run a
> BTT assembly step from an initramfs just to get an NVDIMM up and
> running.  It was a convenience, not a requirement.

It's a very deep tying for that feature.  Look at what the raid code
does just for scanning.  Although even that is officially deprecate
because people don't like in-kernel scanning (which I tend to disagree with).
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Patch

diff --git a/drivers/nvdimm/Kconfig b/drivers/nvdimm/Kconfig
index 07a29113b870..f16ba9d14740 100644
--- a/drivers/nvdimm/Kconfig
+++ b/drivers/nvdimm/Kconfig
@@ -33,4 +33,7 @@  config BLK_DEV_PMEM
 
 	  Say Y if you want to use an NVDIMM
 
+config ND_BTT_DEVS
+	def_bool y
+
 endif
diff --git a/drivers/nvdimm/Makefile b/drivers/nvdimm/Makefile
index abce98f87f16..eb1bbce86592 100644
--- a/drivers/nvdimm/Makefile
+++ b/drivers/nvdimm/Makefile
@@ -11,3 +11,4 @@  libnvdimm-y += region_devs.o
 libnvdimm-y += region.o
 libnvdimm-y += namespace_devs.o
 libnvdimm-y += label.o
+libnvdimm-$(CONFIG_ND_BTT_DEVS) += btt_devs.o
diff --git a/drivers/nvdimm/btt.h b/drivers/nvdimm/btt.h
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..e8f6d8e0ddd3
--- /dev/null
+++ b/drivers/nvdimm/btt.h
@@ -0,0 +1,45 @@ 
+/*
+ * Block Translation Table library
+ * Copyright (c) 2014-2015, Intel Corporation.
+ *
+ * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
+ * under the terms and conditions of the GNU General Public License,
+ * version 2, as published by the Free Software Foundation.
+ *
+ * This program is distributed in the hope it will be useful, but WITHOUT
+ * ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or
+ * FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the GNU General Public License for
+ * more details.
+ */
+
+#ifndef _LINUX_BTT_H
+#define _LINUX_BTT_H
+
+#include <linux/types.h>
+
+#define BTT_SIG_LEN 16
+#define BTT_SIG "BTT_ARENA_INFO\0"
+
+struct btt_sb {
+	u8 signature[BTT_SIG_LEN];
+	u8 uuid[16];
+	u8 parent_uuid[16];
+	__le32 flags;
+	__le16 version_major;
+	__le16 version_minor;
+	__le32 external_lbasize;
+	__le32 external_nlba;
+	__le32 internal_lbasize;
+	__le32 internal_nlba;
+	__le32 nfree;
+	__le32 infosize;
+	__le64 nextoff;
+	__le64 dataoff;
+	__le64 mapoff;
+	__le64 logoff;
+	__le64 info2off;
+	u8 padding[3968];
+	__le64 checksum;
+};
+
+#endif
diff --git a/drivers/nvdimm/btt_devs.c b/drivers/nvdimm/btt_devs.c
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..2148fd8f535b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/drivers/nvdimm/btt_devs.c
@@ -0,0 +1,431 @@ 
+/*
+ * Copyright(c) 2013-2015 Intel Corporation. All rights reserved.
+ *
+ * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
+ * it under the terms of version 2 of the GNU General Public License as
+ * published by the Free Software Foundation.
+ *
+ * This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but
+ * WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+ * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the GNU
+ * General Public License for more details.
+ */
+#include <linux/blkdev.h>
+#include <linux/device.h>
+#include <linux/genhd.h>
+#include <linux/sizes.h>
+#include <linux/slab.h>
+#include <linux/fs.h>
+#include <linux/mm.h>
+#include "nd-core.h"
+#include "btt.h"
+#include "nd.h"
+
+static DEFINE_IDA(btt_ida);
+
+static void nd_btt_release(struct device *dev)
+{
+	struct nd_btt *nd_btt = to_nd_btt(dev);
+
+	dev_dbg(dev, "%s\n", __func__);
+	WARN_ON(nd_btt->backing_dev);
+	ida_simple_remove(&btt_ida, nd_btt->id);
+	kfree(nd_btt->uuid);
+	kfree(nd_btt);
+}
+
+static struct device_type nd_btt_device_type = {
+	.name = "nd_btt",
+	.release = nd_btt_release,
+};
+
+bool is_nd_btt(struct device *dev)
+{
+	return dev->type == &nd_btt_device_type;
+}
+
+struct nd_btt *to_nd_btt(struct device *dev)
+{
+	struct nd_btt *nd_btt = container_of(dev, struct nd_btt, dev);
+
+	WARN_ON(!is_nd_btt(dev));
+	return nd_btt;
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(to_nd_btt);
+
+static const unsigned long btt_lbasize_supported[] = { 512, 4096, 0 };
+
+static ssize_t sector_size_show(struct device *dev,
+		struct device_attribute *attr, char *buf)
+{
+	struct nd_btt *nd_btt = to_nd_btt(dev);
+
+	return nd_sector_size_show(nd_btt->lbasize, btt_lbasize_supported, buf);
+}
+
+static ssize_t sector_size_store(struct device *dev,
+		struct device_attribute *attr, const char *buf, size_t len)
+{
+	struct nd_btt *nd_btt = to_nd_btt(dev);
+	ssize_t rc;
+
+	device_lock(dev);
+	nvdimm_bus_lock(dev);
+	rc = nd_sector_size_store(dev, buf, &nd_btt->lbasize,
+			btt_lbasize_supported);
+	dev_dbg(dev, "%s: result: %zd wrote: %s%s", __func__,
+			rc, buf, buf[len - 1] == '\n' ? "" : "\n");
+	nvdimm_bus_unlock(dev);
+	device_unlock(dev);
+
+	return rc ? rc : len;
+}
+static DEVICE_ATTR_RW(sector_size);
+
+static ssize_t uuid_show(struct device *dev,
+		struct device_attribute *attr, char *buf)
+{
+	struct nd_btt *nd_btt = to_nd_btt(dev);
+
+	if (nd_btt->uuid)
+		return sprintf(buf, "%pUb\n", nd_btt->uuid);
+	return sprintf(buf, "\n");
+}
+
+static ssize_t uuid_store(struct device *dev,
+		struct device_attribute *attr, const char *buf, size_t len)
+{
+	struct nd_btt *nd_btt = to_nd_btt(dev);
+	ssize_t rc;
+
+	device_lock(dev);
+	rc = nd_uuid_store(dev, &nd_btt->uuid, buf, len);
+	dev_dbg(dev, "%s: result: %zd wrote: %s%s", __func__,
+			rc, buf, buf[len - 1] == '\n' ? "" : "\n");
+	device_unlock(dev);
+
+	return rc ? rc : len;
+}
+static DEVICE_ATTR_RW(uuid);
+
+static ssize_t backing_dev_show(struct device *dev,
+		struct device_attribute *attr, char *buf)
+{
+	struct nd_btt *nd_btt = to_nd_btt(dev);
+	char name[BDEVNAME_SIZE];
+
+	if (nd_btt->backing_dev)
+		return sprintf(buf, "/dev/%s\n",
+				bdevname(nd_btt->backing_dev, name));
+	else
+		return sprintf(buf, "\n");
+}
+
+static const fmode_t nd_btt_devs_mode = FMODE_READ | FMODE_WRITE | FMODE_EXCL;
+
+static void nd_btt_remove_bdev(struct nd_btt *nd_btt, const char *caller)
+{
+	struct block_device *bdev = nd_btt->backing_dev;
+	char bdev_name[BDEVNAME_SIZE];
+
+	if (!nd_btt->backing_dev)
+		return;
+
+	WARN_ON_ONCE(!is_nvdimm_bus_locked(&nd_btt->dev));
+	dev_dbg(&nd_btt->dev, "%s: %s: release %s\n", caller, __func__,
+			bdevname(bdev, bdev_name));
+	blkdev_put(bdev, nd_btt_devs_mode);
+	nd_btt->backing_dev = NULL;
+
+	/*
+	 * Once we've had our backing device removed we need to be fully
+	 * reconfigured.  The bus will have already created a new seed
+	 * for this purpose, so now is a good time to clean up this
+	 * stale nd_btt instance.
+	 */
+	if (nd_btt->dev.driver)
+		nd_device_unregister(&nd_btt->dev, ND_ASYNC);
+}
+
+static int __nd_btt_remove_disk(struct device *dev, void *data)
+{
+	struct gendisk *disk = data;
+	struct block_device *bdev;
+	struct nd_btt *nd_btt;
+
+	if (!is_nd_btt(dev))
+		return 0;
+
+	nd_btt = to_nd_btt(dev);
+	bdev = nd_btt->backing_dev;
+	if (bdev && bdev->bd_disk == disk)
+		nd_btt_remove_bdev(nd_btt, __func__);
+	return 0;
+}
+
+void nd_btt_remove_disk(struct nvdimm_bus *nvdimm_bus, struct gendisk *disk)
+{
+	device_for_each_child(&nvdimm_bus->dev, disk, __nd_btt_remove_disk);
+}
+
+static ssize_t __backing_dev_store(struct device *dev,
+		struct device_attribute *attr, const char *buf, size_t len)
+{
+	struct nvdimm_bus *nvdimm_bus = walk_to_nvdimm_bus(dev);
+	const struct block_device_operations *ops;
+	struct nd_btt *nd_btt = to_nd_btt(dev);
+	struct block_device *bdev;
+	char *path;
+
+	if (dev->driver) {
+		dev_dbg(dev, "%s: -EBUSY\n", __func__);
+		return -EBUSY;
+	}
+
+	path = kstrndup(buf, len, GFP_KERNEL);
+	if (!path)
+		return -ENOMEM;
+	strim(path);
+
+	/* detach the backing device */
+	if (strcmp(path, "") == 0) {
+		nd_btt_remove_bdev(nd_btt, __func__);
+		goto out;
+	} else if (nd_btt->backing_dev) {
+		dev_dbg(dev, "backing_dev already set\n");
+		len = -EBUSY;
+		goto out;
+	}
+
+	bdev = blkdev_get_by_path(path, nd_btt_devs_mode, nd_btt);
+	if (IS_ERR(bdev)) {
+		dev_dbg(dev, "open '%s' failed: %ld\n", path, PTR_ERR(bdev));
+		len = PTR_ERR(bdev);
+		goto out;
+	}
+
+	if (nvdimm_bus != walk_to_nvdimm_bus(disk_to_dev(bdev->bd_disk))) {
+		dev_dbg(dev, "%s not a descendant of %s\n", path,
+				dev_name(&nvdimm_bus->dev));
+		blkdev_put(bdev, nd_btt_devs_mode);
+		len = -EINVAL;
+		goto out;
+	}
+
+	if (get_capacity(bdev->bd_disk) < SZ_16M / 512) {
+		dev_dbg(dev, "%s too small to host btt\n", path);
+		blkdev_put(bdev, nd_btt_devs_mode);
+		len = -ENXIO;
+		goto out;
+	}
+
+	ops = bdev->bd_disk->fops;
+	if (!ops->rw_bytes) {
+		dev_dbg(dev, "%s does not implement ->rw_bytes()\n", path);
+		blkdev_put(bdev, nd_btt_devs_mode);
+		len = -EINVAL;
+		goto out;
+	}
+
+	WARN_ON_ONCE(!is_nvdimm_bus_locked(&nd_btt->dev));
+	nd_btt->backing_dev = bdev;
+
+ out:
+	kfree(path);
+	return len;
+}
+
+static ssize_t backing_dev_store(struct device *dev,
+		struct device_attribute *attr, const char *buf, size_t len)
+{
+	ssize_t rc;
+
+	nvdimm_bus_lock(dev);
+	device_lock(dev);
+	rc = __backing_dev_store(dev, attr, buf, len);
+	dev_dbg(dev, "%s: result: %zd wrote: %s%s", __func__,
+			rc, buf, buf[len - 1] == '\n' ? "" : "\n");
+	device_unlock(dev);
+	nvdimm_bus_unlock(dev);
+
+	return rc;
+}
+static DEVICE_ATTR_RW(backing_dev);
+
+static bool is_nd_btt_idle(struct device *dev)
+{
+	struct nvdimm_bus *nvdimm_bus = walk_to_nvdimm_bus(dev);
+	struct nd_btt *nd_btt = to_nd_btt(dev);
+
+	if (nvdimm_bus->nd_btt == nd_btt || dev->driver || nd_btt->backing_dev)
+		return false;
+	return true;
+}
+
+static ssize_t delete_show(struct device *dev,
+		struct device_attribute *attr, char *buf)
+{
+	/* return 1 if can be deleted */
+	return sprintf(buf, "%d\n", is_nd_btt_idle(dev));
+}
+
+static ssize_t delete_store(struct device *dev,
+		struct device_attribute *attr, const char *buf, size_t len)
+{
+	unsigned long val;
+
+	/* write 1 to delete */
+	if (kstrtoul(buf, 0, &val) != 0 || val != 1)
+		return -EINVAL;
+
+	/* prevent deletion while this btt is active, or is the current seed */
+	if (!is_nd_btt_idle(dev))
+		return -EBUSY;
+
+	/*
+	 * userspace raced itself if device goes active here and it gets
+	 * to keep the pieces
+	 */
+	nd_device_unregister(dev, ND_ASYNC);
+
+	return len;
+}
+static DEVICE_ATTR_RW(delete);
+
+static struct attribute *nd_btt_attributes[] = {
+	&dev_attr_sector_size.attr,
+	&dev_attr_backing_dev.attr,
+	&dev_attr_delete.attr,
+	&dev_attr_uuid.attr,
+	NULL,
+};
+
+static struct attribute_group nd_btt_attribute_group = {
+	.attrs = nd_btt_attributes,
+};
+
+static const struct attribute_group *nd_btt_attribute_groups[] = {
+	&nd_btt_attribute_group,
+	&nd_device_attribute_group,
+	NULL,
+};
+
+static struct nd_btt *__nd_btt_create(struct nvdimm_bus *nvdimm_bus,
+		unsigned long lbasize, u8 *uuid, struct block_device *bdev)
+{
+	struct nd_btt *nd_btt = kzalloc(sizeof(*nd_btt), GFP_KERNEL);
+	struct device *dev;
+
+	if (!nd_btt)
+		return NULL;
+	nd_btt->id = ida_simple_get(&btt_ida, 0, 0, GFP_KERNEL);
+	if (nd_btt->id < 0) {
+		kfree(nd_btt);
+		return NULL;
+	}
+
+	nd_btt->lbasize = lbasize;
+	if (uuid)
+		uuid = kmemdup(uuid, 16, GFP_KERNEL);
+	nd_btt->uuid = uuid;
+	nd_btt->backing_dev = bdev;
+	dev = &nd_btt->dev;
+	dev_set_name(dev, "btt%d", nd_btt->id);
+	dev->parent = &nvdimm_bus->dev;
+	dev->type = &nd_btt_device_type;
+	dev->groups = nd_btt_attribute_groups;
+	nd_device_register(&nd_btt->dev);
+	return nd_btt;
+}
+
+struct nd_btt *nd_btt_create(struct nvdimm_bus *nvdimm_bus)
+{
+	return __nd_btt_create(nvdimm_bus, 0, NULL, NULL);
+}
+
+/*
+ * nd_btt_sb_checksum: compute checksum for btt info block
+ *
+ * Returns a fletcher64 checksum of everything in the given info block
+ * except the last field (since that's where the checksum lives).
+ */
+u64 nd_btt_sb_checksum(struct btt_sb *btt_sb)
+{
+	u64 sum, sum_save;
+
+	sum_save = btt_sb->checksum;
+	btt_sb->checksum = 0;
+	sum = nd_fletcher64(btt_sb, sizeof(*btt_sb), 1);
+	btt_sb->checksum = sum_save;
+	return sum;
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(nd_btt_sb_checksum);
+
+static struct nd_btt *__nd_btt_autodetect(struct nvdimm_bus *nvdimm_bus,
+		struct block_device *bdev, struct btt_sb *btt_sb)
+{
+	u64 checksum;
+	u32 lbasize;
+
+	if (!btt_sb || !bdev || !nvdimm_bus)
+		return NULL;
+
+	if (bdev_read_bytes(bdev, SZ_4K, btt_sb, sizeof(*btt_sb)))
+		return NULL;
+
+	if (get_capacity(bdev->bd_disk) < SZ_16M / 512)
+		return NULL;
+
+	if (memcmp(btt_sb->signature, BTT_SIG, BTT_SIG_LEN) != 0)
+		return NULL;
+
+	checksum = le64_to_cpu(btt_sb->checksum);
+	btt_sb->checksum = 0;
+	if (checksum != nd_btt_sb_checksum(btt_sb))
+		return NULL;
+	btt_sb->checksum = cpu_to_le64(checksum);
+
+	lbasize = le32_to_cpu(btt_sb->external_lbasize);
+	return __nd_btt_create(nvdimm_bus, lbasize, btt_sb->uuid, bdev);
+}
+
+static int nd_btt_autodetect(struct nvdimm_bus *nvdimm_bus,
+		struct block_device *bdev)
+{
+	char name[BDEVNAME_SIZE];
+	struct nd_btt *nd_btt;
+	struct btt_sb *btt_sb;
+
+	btt_sb = kzalloc(sizeof(*btt_sb), GFP_KERNEL);
+	nd_btt = __nd_btt_autodetect(nvdimm_bus, bdev, btt_sb);
+	kfree(btt_sb);
+	dev_dbg(&nvdimm_bus->dev, "%s: %s btt: %s\n", __func__,
+			bdevname(bdev, name), nd_btt
+			? dev_name(&nd_btt->dev) : "<none>");
+	return nd_btt ? 0 : -ENODEV;
+}
+
+void nd_btt_add_disk(struct nvdimm_bus *nvdimm_bus, struct gendisk *disk)
+{
+	struct disk_part_iter piter;
+	struct hd_struct *part;
+
+	disk_part_iter_init(&piter, disk, DISK_PITER_INCL_PART0);
+	while ((part = disk_part_iter_next(&piter))) {
+		struct block_device *bdev;
+		int rc;
+
+		bdev = bdget_disk(disk, part->partno);
+		if (!bdev)
+			continue;
+		if (blkdev_get(bdev, nd_btt_devs_mode, nvdimm_bus) != 0)
+			continue;
+		rc = nd_btt_autodetect(nvdimm_bus, bdev);
+		if (rc)
+			blkdev_put(bdev, nd_btt_devs_mode);
+		/* no need to scan further in the case of whole disk btt */
+		if (rc == 0 && part->partno == 0)
+			break;
+	}
+	disk_part_iter_exit(&piter);
+}
diff --git a/drivers/nvdimm/bus.c b/drivers/nvdimm/bus.c
index ca802702440e..3c14fee5aff4 100644
--- a/drivers/nvdimm/bus.c
+++ b/drivers/nvdimm/bus.c
@@ -14,8 +14,10 @@ 
 #include <linux/vmalloc.h>
 #include <linux/uaccess.h>
 #include <linux/module.h>
+#include <linux/blkdev.h>
 #include <linux/fcntl.h>
 #include <linux/async.h>
+#include <linux/genhd.h>
 #include <linux/ndctl.h>
 #include <linux/sched.h>
 #include <linux/slab.h>
@@ -40,6 +42,8 @@  static int to_nd_device_type(struct device *dev)
 		return ND_DEVICE_REGION_BLK;
 	else if (is_nd_pmem(dev->parent) || is_nd_blk(dev->parent))
 		return nd_region_to_nstype(to_nd_region(dev->parent));
+	else if (is_nd_btt(dev))
+		return ND_DEVICE_BTT;
 
 	return 0;
 }
@@ -103,6 +107,21 @@  static int nvdimm_bus_probe(struct device *dev)
 
 	dev_dbg(&nvdimm_bus->dev, "%s.probe(%s) = %d\n", dev->driver->name,
 			dev_name(dev), rc);
+
+	/* check if our btt-seed has sprouted, and plant another */
+	if (rc == 0 && is_nd_btt(dev) && dev == &nvdimm_bus->nd_btt->dev) {
+		const char *sep = "", *name = "", *status = "failed";
+
+		nvdimm_bus->nd_btt = nd_btt_create(nvdimm_bus);
+		if (nvdimm_bus->nd_btt) {
+			status = "succeeded";
+			sep = ": ";
+			name = dev_name(&nvdimm_bus->nd_btt->dev);
+		}
+		dev_dbg(&nvdimm_bus->dev, "btt seed creation %s%s%s\n",
+				status, sep, name);
+	}
+
 	if (rc != 0)
 		module_put(provider);
 	return rc;
@@ -163,14 +182,19 @@  static void nd_async_device_unregister(void *d, async_cookie_t cookie)
 	put_device(dev);
 }
 
-void nd_device_register(struct device *dev)
+void __nd_device_register(struct device *dev)
 {
 	dev->bus = &nvdimm_bus_type;
-	device_initialize(dev);
 	get_device(dev);
 	async_schedule_domain(nd_async_device_register, dev,
 			&nd_async_domain);
 }
+
+void nd_device_register(struct device *dev)
+{
+	device_initialize(dev);
+	__nd_device_register(dev);
+}
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(nd_device_register);
 
 void nd_device_unregister(struct device *dev, enum nd_async_mode mode)
@@ -219,6 +243,60 @@  int __nd_driver_register(struct nd_device_driver *nd_drv, struct module *owner,
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(__nd_driver_register);
 
+/**
+ * nvdimm_bus_add_disk() - attach and run actions on an nvdimm block device
+ * @disk: disk device being registered
+ *
+ * Note, that @disk must be a descendant of an nvdimm_bus
+ */
+int nvdimm_bus_add_disk(struct gendisk *disk)
+{
+	const struct block_device_operations *ops = disk->fops;
+	struct device *dev = disk->driverfs_dev;
+	struct nvdimm_bus *nvdimm_bus;
+
+	nvdimm_bus = walk_to_nvdimm_bus(dev);
+	if (!nvdimm_bus || !ops->rw_bytes)
+		return -EINVAL;
+
+	/*
+	 * Take the bus lock here to prevent userspace racing to
+	 * initiate actions on the newly availble block device while
+	 * autodetect scanning is still in flight.
+	 */
+	nvdimm_bus_lock(&nvdimm_bus->dev);
+	add_disk(disk);
+	nd_btt_add_disk(nvdimm_bus, disk);
+	nvdimm_bus_unlock(&nvdimm_bus->dev);
+
+	return 0;
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(nvdimm_bus_add_disk);
+
+void nvdimm_bus_remove_disk(struct gendisk *disk)
+{
+	struct device *dev = disk_to_dev(disk);
+	struct nvdimm_bus *nvdimm_bus;
+
+	nvdimm_bus = walk_to_nvdimm_bus(dev);
+	if (!nvdimm_bus)
+		return;
+
+	nvdimm_bus_lock(&nvdimm_bus->dev);
+	nd_btt_remove_disk(nvdimm_bus, disk);
+	nvdimm_bus_unlock(&nvdimm_bus->dev);
+
+	/*
+	 * Flush in case *_notify_remove() kicked off asynchronous
+	 * device unregistration
+	 */
+	nd_synchronize();
+
+	del_gendisk(disk);
+	put_disk(disk);
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(nvdimm_bus_remove_disk);
+
 static ssize_t modalias_show(struct device *dev, struct device_attribute *attr,
 		char *buf)
 {
diff --git a/drivers/nvdimm/core.c b/drivers/nvdimm/core.c
index dd824d7c2669..0fa9b6225450 100644
--- a/drivers/nvdimm/core.c
+++ b/drivers/nvdimm/core.c
@@ -273,10 +273,28 @@  static ssize_t wait_probe_show(struct device *dev,
 }
 static DEVICE_ATTR_RO(wait_probe);
 
+static ssize_t btt_seed_show(struct device *dev,
+		struct device_attribute *attr, char *buf)
+{
+	struct nvdimm_bus *nvdimm_bus = to_nvdimm_bus(dev);
+	ssize_t rc;
+
+	nvdimm_bus_lock(dev);
+	if (nvdimm_bus->nd_btt)
+		rc = sprintf(buf, "%s\n", dev_name(&nvdimm_bus->nd_btt->dev));
+	else
+		rc = sprintf(buf, "\n");
+	nvdimm_bus_unlock(dev);
+
+	return rc;
+}
+static DEVICE_ATTR_RO(btt_seed);
+
 static struct attribute *nvdimm_bus_attributes[] = {
 	&dev_attr_commands.attr,
 	&dev_attr_wait_probe.attr,
 	&dev_attr_provider.attr,
+	&dev_attr_btt_seed.attr,
 	NULL,
 };
 
@@ -322,6 +340,8 @@  struct nvdimm_bus *__nvdimm_bus_register(struct device *parent,
 	list_add_tail(&nvdimm_bus->list, &nvdimm_bus_list);
 	mutex_unlock(&nvdimm_bus_list_mutex);
 
+	nvdimm_bus->nd_btt = nd_btt_create(nvdimm_bus);
+
 	return nvdimm_bus;
  err:
 	put_device(&nvdimm_bus->dev);
diff --git a/drivers/nvdimm/nd-core.h b/drivers/nvdimm/nd-core.h
index 78d6c51f4bac..1375d30b3da5 100644
--- a/drivers/nvdimm/nd-core.h
+++ b/drivers/nvdimm/nd-core.h
@@ -23,6 +23,11 @@  extern struct list_head nvdimm_bus_list;
 extern struct mutex nvdimm_bus_list_mutex;
 extern int nvdimm_major;
 
+struct block_device;
+struct nd_io_claim;
+struct nd_btt;
+struct nd_io;
+
 struct nvdimm_bus {
 	struct nvdimm_bus_descriptor *nd_desc;
 	wait_queue_head_t probe_wait;
@@ -31,6 +36,7 @@  struct nvdimm_bus {
 	struct device dev;
 	int id, probe_active;
 	struct mutex reconfig_mutex;
+	struct nd_btt *nd_btt;
 };
 
 struct nvdimm {
@@ -45,6 +51,33 @@  struct nvdimm {
 bool is_nvdimm(struct device *dev);
 bool is_nd_blk(struct device *dev);
 bool is_nd_pmem(struct device *dev);
+struct gendisk;
+#if IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_ND_BTT_DEVS)
+bool is_nd_btt(struct device *dev);
+struct nd_btt *nd_btt_create(struct nvdimm_bus *nvdimm_bus);
+void nd_btt_add_disk(struct nvdimm_bus *nvdimm_bus, struct gendisk *disk);
+void nd_btt_remove_disk(struct nvdimm_bus *nvdimm_bus, struct gendisk *disk);
+#else
+static inline bool is_nd_btt(struct device *dev)
+{
+	return false;
+}
+
+static inline struct nd_btt *nd_btt_create(struct nvdimm_bus *nvdimm_bus)
+{
+	return NULL;
+}
+
+static inline void nd_btt_add_disk(struct nvdimm_bus *nvdimm_bus,
+		struct gendisk *disk)
+{
+}
+
+static inline void nd_btt_remove_disk(struct nvdimm_bus *nvdimm_bus,
+		struct gendisk *disk)
+{
+}
+#endif
 struct nvdimm_bus *walk_to_nvdimm_bus(struct device *nd_dev);
 int __init nvdimm_bus_init(void);
 void nvdimm_bus_exit(void);
@@ -58,6 +91,7 @@  void nd_synchronize(void);
 int nvdimm_bus_register_dimms(struct nvdimm_bus *nvdimm_bus);
 int nvdimm_bus_register_regions(struct nvdimm_bus *nvdimm_bus);
 int nvdimm_bus_init_interleave_sets(struct nvdimm_bus *nvdimm_bus);
+void __nd_device_register(struct device *dev);
 int nd_match_dimm(struct device *dev, void *data);
 struct nd_label_id;
 char *nd_label_gen_id(struct nd_label_id *label_id, u8 *uuid, u32 flags);
diff --git a/drivers/nvdimm/nd.h b/drivers/nvdimm/nd.h
index bfa849617358..3bd8d650340e 100644
--- a/drivers/nvdimm/nd.h
+++ b/drivers/nvdimm/nd.h
@@ -14,11 +14,17 @@ 
 #define __ND_H__
 #include <linux/libnvdimm.h>
 #include <linux/device.h>
+#include <linux/genhd.h>
 #include <linux/mutex.h>
 #include <linux/ndctl.h>
 #include <linux/types.h>
+#include <linux/fs.h>
 #include "label.h"
 
+enum {
+	SECTOR_SHIFT = 9,
+};
+
 struct nvdimm_drvdata {
 	struct device *dev;
 	int nsindex_size;
@@ -94,6 +100,14 @@  static inline unsigned nd_inc_seq(unsigned seq)
 	return next[seq & 3];
 }
 
+struct nd_btt {
+	struct device dev;
+	struct block_device *backing_dev;
+	unsigned long lbasize;
+	u8 *uuid;
+	int id;
+};
+
 enum nd_async_mode {
 	ND_SYNC,
 	ND_ASYNC,
@@ -118,6 +132,9 @@  int nvdimm_init_nsarea(struct nvdimm_drvdata *ndd);
 int nvdimm_init_config_data(struct nvdimm_drvdata *ndd);
 int nvdimm_set_config_data(struct nvdimm_drvdata *ndd, size_t offset,
 		void *buf, size_t len);
+struct nd_btt *to_nd_btt(struct device *dev);
+struct btt_sb;
+u64 nd_btt_sb_checksum(struct btt_sb *btt_sb);
 struct nd_region *to_nd_region(struct device *dev);
 int nd_region_to_nstype(struct nd_region *nd_region);
 int nd_region_register_namespaces(struct nd_region *nd_region, int *err);
@@ -125,6 +142,8 @@  u64 nd_region_interleave_set_cookie(struct nd_region *nd_region);
 void nvdimm_bus_lock(struct device *dev);
 void nvdimm_bus_unlock(struct device *dev);
 bool is_nvdimm_bus_locked(struct device *dev);
+int nvdimm_bus_add_disk(struct gendisk *disk);
+void nvdimm_bus_remove_disk(struct gendisk *disk);
 void nvdimm_drvdata_release(struct kref *kref);
 void put_ndd(struct nvdimm_drvdata *ndd);
 int nd_label_reserve_dpa(struct nvdimm_drvdata *ndd);
diff --git a/drivers/nvdimm/pmem.c b/drivers/nvdimm/pmem.c
index efa2cde7f6b6..1f4767150975 100644
--- a/drivers/nvdimm/pmem.c
+++ b/drivers/nvdimm/pmem.c
@@ -190,8 +190,6 @@  static struct pmem_device *pmem_alloc(struct device *dev,
 	set_capacity(disk, pmem->size >> 9);
 	pmem->pmem_disk = disk;
 
-	add_disk(disk);
-
 	return pmem;
 
 out_free_queue:
@@ -208,8 +206,7 @@  out:
 
 static void pmem_free(struct pmem_device *pmem)
 {
-	del_gendisk(pmem->pmem_disk);
-	put_disk(pmem->pmem_disk);
+	nvdimm_bus_remove_disk(pmem->pmem_disk);
 	blk_cleanup_queue(pmem->pmem_queue);
 	iounmap(pmem->virt_addr);
 	release_mem_region(pmem->phys_addr, pmem->size);
@@ -244,6 +241,7 @@  static int nd_pmem_probe(struct device *dev)
 		return PTR_ERR(pmem);
 
 	dev_set_drvdata(dev, pmem);
+	nvdimm_bus_add_disk(pmem->pmem_disk);
 
 	return 0;
 }
diff --git a/include/uapi/linux/ndctl.h b/include/uapi/linux/ndctl.h
index 2b94ea2287bb..4c2e3ff374b2 100644
--- a/include/uapi/linux/ndctl.h
+++ b/include/uapi/linux/ndctl.h
@@ -181,6 +181,7 @@  static inline const char *nvdimm_cmd_name(unsigned cmd)
 #define ND_DEVICE_NAMESPACE_IO 4    /* legacy persistent memory */
 #define ND_DEVICE_NAMESPACE_PMEM 5  /* PMEM namespace (may alias with BLK) */
 #define ND_DEVICE_NAMESPACE_BLK 6   /* BLK namespace (may alias with PMEM) */
+#define ND_DEVICE_BTT 7		    /* block-translation table device */
 
 enum nd_driver_flags {
 	ND_DRIVER_DIMM            = 1 << ND_DEVICE_DIMM,
@@ -189,6 +190,7 @@  enum nd_driver_flags {
 	ND_DRIVER_NAMESPACE_IO    = 1 << ND_DEVICE_NAMESPACE_IO,
 	ND_DRIVER_NAMESPACE_PMEM  = 1 << ND_DEVICE_NAMESPACE_PMEM,
 	ND_DRIVER_NAMESPACE_BLK   = 1 << ND_DEVICE_NAMESPACE_BLK,
+	ND_DRIVER_BTT		  = 1 << ND_DEVICE_BTT,
 };
 
 enum {