The patch below does not apply to the 4.4-stable tree.
If someone wants it applied there, or to any other stable or longterm
tree, then please email the backport, including the original git commit
id to <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>.
thanks,
greg k-h
------------------ original commit in Linus's tree ------------------
>From fa7d2e639cd90442d868dfc6ca1d4cc9d8bf206e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2019 17:33:06 -0800
Subject: [PATCH] libnvdimm/pmem: Honor force_raw for legacy pmem regions
For recovery, where non-dax access is needed to a given physical address
range, and testing, allow the 'force_raw' attribute to override the
default establishment of a dev_pagemap.
Otherwise without this capability it is possible to end up with a
namespace that can not be activated due to corrupted info-block, and one
that can not be repaired due to a section collision.
Cc: <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Fixes: 004f1afbe199 ("libnvdimm, pmem: direct map legacy pmem by default")
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@xxxxxxxxx>
diff --git a/drivers/nvdimm/namespace_devs.c b/drivers/nvdimm/namespace_devs.c
index 4b077555ac70..33a3b23b3db7 100644
--- a/drivers/nvdimm/namespace_devs.c
+++ b/drivers/nvdimm/namespace_devs.c
@@ -138,6 +138,7 @@ bool nd_is_uuid_unique(struct device *dev, u8 *uuid)
bool pmem_should_map_pages(struct device *dev)
{
struct nd_region *nd_region = to_nd_region(dev->parent);
+ struct nd_namespace_common *ndns = to_ndns(dev);
struct nd_namespace_io *nsio;
if (!IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_ZONE_DEVICE))
@@ -149,6 +150,9 @@ bool pmem_should_map_pages(struct device *dev)
if (is_nd_pfn(dev) || is_nd_btt(dev))
return false;
+ if (ndns->force_raw)
+ return false;
+
nsio = to_nd_namespace_io(dev);
if (region_intersects(nsio->res.start, resource_size(&nsio->res),
IORESOURCE_SYSTEM_RAM,
