cxl: Fix coredump generation when cxl_get_fd() is used
If a process dumps core while owning a cxl file descriptor obtained from an AFU driver (e.g. cxlflash) through the cxl_get_fd() API, the following error occurs: [ 868.027591] Unable to handle kernel paging request for data at address ... [ 868.027778] Faulting instruction address: 0xc00000000035edb0 cpu 0x8c: Vector: 300 (Data Access) at [c000003c688275e0] pc: c00000000035edb0: elf_core_dump+0xd60/0x1300 lr: c00000000035ed80: elf_core_dump+0xd30/0x1300 sp: c000003c68827860 msr: 9000000100009033 dar: c dsisr: 40000000 current = 0xc000003c68780000 paca = 0xc000000001b73200 softe: 0 irq_happened: 0x01 pid = 46725, comm = hxesurelock enter ? for help [c000003c68827a60] c00000000036948c do_coredump+0xcec/0x11e0 [c000003c68827c20] c0000000000ce9e0 get_signal+0x540/0x7b0 [c000003c68827d10] c000000000017354 do_signal+0x54/0x2b0 [c000003c68827e00] c00000000001777c do_notify_resume+0xbc/0xd0 [c000003c68827e30] c000000000009838 ret_from_except_lite+0x64/0x68 --- Exception: 300 (Data Access) at 00003fff98ad2918 The root cause is that the address_space structure for the file doesn't define a 'host' member. When cxl allocates a file descriptor, it's using the anonymous inode to back the file, but allocates a private address_space for each context. The private address_space allows to track memory allocation for each context. cxl doesn't define the 'host' member of the address space, i.e. the inode. We don't want to define it as the anonymous inode, since there's no longer a 1-to-1 relation between address_space and inode. To fix it, instead of using the anonymous inode, we introduce a simple pseudo filesystem so that cxl can allocate its own inodes. So we now have one inode for each file and address_space. The pseudo filesystem is only mounted on the first allocation of a file descriptor by cxl_get_fd(). Tested with cxlflash. Signed-off-by: Frederic Barrat <fbarrat@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: Matthew R. Ochs <mrochs@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
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