Thread (80 messages) 80 messages, 11 authors, 2026-04-28

Re: [PATCH V7 07/19] dax: Add fs_dax_get() func to prepare dax for fs-dax usage

From: John Groves <John@groves.net>
Date: 2026-02-26 23:21:03
Also in: linux-cxl, linux-fsdevel, lkml, nvdimm

On 26/02/19 09:07AM, Dave Jiang wrote:

On 1/18/26 3:32 PM, John Groves wrote:
quoted
From: John Groves <john@groves.net>

The fs_dax_get() function should be called by fs-dax file systems after
opening a fsdev dax device. This adds holder_operations, which provides
a memory failure callback path and effects exclusivity between callers
of fs_dax_get().

fs_dax_get() is specific to fsdev_dax, so it checks the driver type
(which required touching bus.[ch]). fs_dax_get() fails if fsdev_dax is
not bound to the memory.

This function serves the same role as fs_dax_get_by_bdev(), which dax
file systems call after opening the pmem block device.

This can't be located in fsdev.c because struct dax_device is opaque
there.

This will be called by fs/fuse/famfs.c in a subsequent commit.

Signed-off-by: John Groves <john@groves.net>
---
 drivers/dax/bus.c   |  2 --
 drivers/dax/bus.h   |  2 ++
 drivers/dax/super.c | 58 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
 include/linux/dax.h | 20 ++++++++++------
 4 files changed, 72 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/dax/bus.c b/drivers/dax/bus.c
index e79daf825b52..01402d5103ef 100644
--- a/drivers/dax/bus.c
+++ b/drivers/dax/bus.c
@@ -39,8 +39,6 @@ static int dax_bus_uevent(const struct device *dev, struct kobj_uevent_env *env)
 	return add_uevent_var(env, "MODALIAS=" DAX_DEVICE_MODALIAS_FMT, 0);
 }
 
-#define to_dax_drv(__drv)	container_of_const(__drv, struct dax_device_driver, drv)
-
 static struct dax_id *__dax_match_id(const struct dax_device_driver *dax_drv,
 		const char *dev_name)
 {
diff --git a/drivers/dax/bus.h b/drivers/dax/bus.h
index 880bdf7e72d7..dc6f112ac4a4 100644
--- a/drivers/dax/bus.h
+++ b/drivers/dax/bus.h
@@ -42,6 +42,8 @@ struct dax_device_driver {
 	void (*remove)(struct dev_dax *dev);
 };
 
+#define to_dax_drv(__drv) container_of_const(__drv, struct dax_device_driver, drv)
+
 int __dax_driver_register(struct dax_device_driver *dax_drv,
 		struct module *module, const char *mod_name);
 #define dax_driver_register(driver) \
diff --git a/drivers/dax/super.c b/drivers/dax/super.c
index ba0b4cd18a77..00c330ef437c 100644
--- a/drivers/dax/super.c
+++ b/drivers/dax/super.c
@@ -14,6 +14,7 @@
 #include <linux/fs.h>
 #include <linux/cacheinfo.h>
 #include "dax-private.h"
+#include "bus.h"
 
 /**
  * struct dax_device - anchor object for dax services
@@ -111,6 +112,10 @@ struct dax_device *fs_dax_get_by_bdev(struct block_device *bdev, u64 *start_off,
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(fs_dax_get_by_bdev);
 
+#endif /* CONFIG_BLOCK && CONFIG_FS_DAX */
+
+#if IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_FS_DAX)
+
 void fs_put_dax(struct dax_device *dax_dev, void *holder)
 {
 	if (dax_dev && holder &&
@@ -119,7 +124,58 @@ void fs_put_dax(struct dax_device *dax_dev, void *holder)
 	put_dax(dax_dev);
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(fs_put_dax);
-#endif /* CONFIG_BLOCK && CONFIG_FS_DAX */
+
+/**
+ * fs_dax_get() - get ownership of a devdax via holder/holder_ops
+ *
+ * fs-dax file systems call this function to prepare to use a devdax device for
+ * fsdax. This is like fs_dax_get_by_bdev(), but the caller already has struct
+ * dev_dax (and there is no bdev). The holder makes this exclusive.
+ *
+ * @dax_dev: dev to be prepared for fs-dax usage
+ * @holder: filesystem or mapped device inside the dax_device
+ * @hops: operations for the inner holder
+ *
+ * Returns: 0 on success, <0 on failure
+ */
+int fs_dax_get(struct dax_device *dax_dev, void *holder,
+	const struct dax_holder_operations *hops)
+{
+	struct dev_dax *dev_dax;
+	struct dax_device_driver *dax_drv;
+	int id;
+
+	id = dax_read_lock();
+	if (!dax_dev || !dax_alive(dax_dev) || !igrab(&dax_dev->inode)) {
+		dax_read_unlock(id);
+		return -ENODEV;
+	}
+	dax_read_unlock(id);
+
+	/* Verify the device is bound to fsdev_dax driver */
+	dev_dax = dax_get_private(dax_dev);
+	if (!dev_dax || !dev_dax->dev.driver) {
Don't you need to hold the dev_dax->dev device lock in order to check the driver?

DJ
Derp. Thanks for catching that Dave!

I believe it's fixed for v8, which is probably coming early next week.

John

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