RE: [PATCH v4 03/12] dm: Treat alloc_dax() -EOPNOTSUPP failure as non-fatal

[Dan Williams]

Mathieu Desnoyers wrote:
> In preparation for checking whether the architecture has data cache
> aliasing within alloc_dax(), modify the error handling of dm alloc_dev()
> to treat alloc_dax() -EOPNOTSUPP failure as non-fatal.
> 
> For the transition, consider that alloc_dax() returning NULL is the
> same as returning -EOPNOTSUPP.
> 
> Fixes: d92576f1167c ("dax: does not work correctly with virtual aliasing caches")
> Suggested-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@xxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Alasdair Kergon <agk@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@xxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Vishal Verma <vishal.l.verma@xxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Dave Jiang <dave.jiang@xxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Russell King <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: linux-arch@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Cc: linux-cxl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Cc: linux-fsdevel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Cc: linux-mm@xxxxxxxxx
> Cc: linux-xfs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Cc: dm-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Cc: nvdimm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> ---
>  drivers/md/dm.c | 17 +++++++++--------
>  1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/md/dm.c b/drivers/md/dm.c
> index 23c32cd1f1d8..2fc22cae9089 100644
> --- a/drivers/md/dm.c
> +++ b/drivers/md/dm.c
> @@ -2054,6 +2054,7 @@ static void cleanup_mapped_device(struct mapped_device *md)
>  static struct mapped_device *alloc_dev(int minor)
>  {
>  	int r, numa_node_id = dm_get_numa_node();
> +	struct dax_device *dax_dev;
>  	struct mapped_device *md;
>  	void *old_md;
>  
> @@ -2122,15 +2123,15 @@ static struct mapped_device *alloc_dev(int minor)
>  	md->disk->private_data = md;
>  	sprintf(md->disk->disk_name, "dm-%d", minor);
>  
> -	if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_FS_DAX)) {
> -		md->dax_dev = alloc_dax(md, &dm_dax_ops);
> -		if (IS_ERR(md->dax_dev)) {
> -			md->dax_dev = NULL;
> +	dax_dev = alloc_dax(md, &dm_dax_ops);
> +	if (IS_ERR_OR_NULL(dax_dev)) {

Similar feedback as the pmem change, lets not propagate the mistake that
alloc_dax() could return NULL, none of the callers of alloc_dax()
properly handled NULL and it was just luck that none of the use cases
tried to use alloc_dax() in the CONFIG_DAX=n case.