The quilt patch titled Subject: dax: check for data cache aliasing at runtime has been removed from the -mm tree. Its filename was dax-check-for-data-cache-aliasing-at-runtime.patch This patch was dropped because it was merged into the mm-stable branch of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm ------------------------------------------------------ From: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Subject: dax: check for data cache aliasing at runtime Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2024 09:46:31 -0500 Replace the following fs/Kconfig:FS_DAX dependency: depends on !(ARM || MIPS || SPARC) By a runtime check within alloc_dax(). This runtime check returns ERR_PTR(-EOPNOTSUPP) if the @ops parameter is non-NULL (which means the kernel is using an aliased mapping) on an architecture which has data cache aliasing. Change the return value from NULL to PTR_ERR(-EOPNOTSUPP) for CONFIG_DAX=n for consistency. This is done in preparation for using cpu_dcache_is_aliasing() in a following change which will properly support architectures which detect data cache aliasing at runtime. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240215144633.96437-8-mathieu.desnoyers@xxxxxxxxxxxx Fixes: d92576f1167c ("dax: does not work correctly with virtual aliasing caches") Signed-off-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@xxxxxxxxx> 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: Alasdair Kergon <agk@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx> Cc: Dave Chinner <david@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Heiko Carstens <hca@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: kernel test robot <lkp@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: Michael Sclafani <dm-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/dax/super.c | 10 ++++++++++ fs/Kconfig | 1 - 2 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/drivers/dax/super.c~dax-check-for-data-cache-aliasing-at-runtime +++ a/drivers/dax/super.c @@ -451,6 +451,16 @@ struct dax_device *alloc_dax(void *priva dev_t devt; int minor; + /* + * Unavailable on architectures with virtually aliased data caches, + * except for device-dax (NULL operations pointer), which does + * not use aliased mappings from the kernel. + */ + if (ops && (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_ARM) || + IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_MIPS) || + IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_SPARC))) + return ERR_PTR(-EOPNOTSUPP); + if (WARN_ON_ONCE(ops && !ops->zero_page_range)) return ERR_PTR(-EINVAL); --- a/fs/Kconfig~dax-check-for-data-cache-aliasing-at-runtime +++ a/fs/Kconfig @@ -60,7 +60,6 @@ endif # BLOCK config FS_DAX bool "File system based Direct Access (DAX) support" depends on MMU - depends on !(ARM || MIPS || SPARC) depends on ZONE_DEVICE || FS_DAX_LIMITED select FS_IOMAP select DAX _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from mathieu.desnoyers@xxxxxxxxxxxx are