[RFC,0/5,V2] dax,pmem: Provide a dax operation to zero range of memory

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Vivek Goyal Feb. 3, 2020, 8 p.m. UTC

Hi,

This is V2 of patches. I posted V1 here.

https://lore.kernel.org/linux-fsdevel/[e-mail]/

Changes since V1.
- Took care of feedback from Christoph.
- Made ->zero_page_range() mandatory operation.
- Provided a generic helper to zero range for non-pmem drivers.
- Merged __dax_zero_page_range() and iomap_dax_zero()
- Made changes to dm drivers.
- Limited range zeroing to with-in single page.
- Tested patches with real hardware.  

description
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This is an RFC patch series to provide a dax operation to zero a range of
memory. It will also clear poison in the process.

Motivation from this patch comes from Christoph's feedback that he will
rather prefer a dax way to zero a range instead of relying on having to
call blkdev_issue_zeroout() in __dax_zero_page_range().

https://lkml.org/lkml/2019/8/26/361

My motivation for this change is virtiofs DAX support. There we use DAX
but we don't have a block device. So any dax code which has the assumption
that there is always a block device associated is a problem. So this
is more of a cleanup of one of the places where dax has this dependency
on block device and if we add a dax operation for zeroing a range, it
can help with not having to call blkdev_issue_zeroout() in dax path.

Thanks
Vivek

Vivek Goyal (5):
  dax, pmem: Add a dax operation zero_page_range
  s390,dax: Add dax zero_page_range operation to dcssblk driver
  dm,dax: Add dax zero_page_range operation
  dax,iomap: Start using dax native zero_page_range()
  dax,iomap: Add helper dax_iomap_zero() to zero a range

 drivers/dax/super.c           | 20 ++++++++++++
 drivers/md/dm-linear.c        | 18 +++++++++++
 drivers/md/dm-log-writes.c    | 17 ++++++++++
 drivers/md/dm-stripe.c        | 23 ++++++++++++++
 drivers/md/dm.c               | 30 ++++++++++++++++++
 drivers/nvdimm/pmem.c         | 50 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 drivers/s390/block/dcssblk.c  |  7 ++++
 fs/dax.c                      | 60 ++++++++++++++---------------------
 fs/iomap/buffered-io.c        |  9 +-----
 include/linux/dax.h           | 17 ++++++----
 include/linux/device-mapper.h |  3 ++
 11 files changed, 204 insertions(+), 50 deletions(-)