block: Add bdev_dax_supported() for dax mount checks

DAX imposes additional requirements to a device.  Add
bdev_dax_supported() which performs all the precondition checks
necessary for filesystem to mount the device with dax option.

Also add a new check to verify if a partition is aligned by 4KB.
When a partition is unaligned, any dax read/write access fails,
except for metadata update.

Signed-off-by: Toshi Kani <toshi.kani@hpe.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
Cc: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: Andreas Dilger <adilger.kernel@dilger.ca>
Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Cc: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
Cc: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Cc: Ross Zwisler <ross.zwisler@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: Boaz Harrosh <boaz@plexistor.com>
Signed-off-by: Vishal Verma <vishal.l.verma@intel.com>

2 files changed, 46 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/fs/block_dev.c b/fs/block_dev.c
index 91e0ec0233c0..518cde62c01c 100644
--- a/fs/block_dev.c
+++ b/fs/block_dev.c
@@ -509,6 +509,51 @@ long bdev_direct_access(struct block_device *bdev, struct blk_dax_ctl *dax)
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(bdev_direct_access);
 
+/**
+ * bdev_dax_supported() - Check if the device supports dax for filesystem
+ * @sb: The superblock of the device
+ * @blocksize: The block size of the device
+ *
+ * This is a library function for filesystems to check if the block device
+ * can be mounted with dax option.
+ *
+ * Return: negative errno if unsupported, 0 if supported.
+ */
+int bdev_dax_supported(struct super_block *sb, int blocksize)
+{
+        struct blk_dax_ctl dax = {
+                .sector = 0,
+                .size = PAGE_SIZE,
+        };
+        int err;
+
+        if (blocksize != PAGE_SIZE) {
+                vfs_msg(sb, KERN_ERR, "error: unsupported blocksize for dax");
+                return -EINVAL;
+        }
+
+        err = bdev_direct_access(sb->s_bdev, &dax);
+        if (err < 0) {
+                switch (err) {
+                case -EOPNOTSUPP:
+                        vfs_msg(sb, KERN_ERR,
+                                "error: device does not support dax");
+                        break;
+                case -EINVAL:
+                        vfs_msg(sb, KERN_ERR,
+                                "error: unaligned partition for dax");
+                        break;
+                default:
+                        vfs_msg(sb, KERN_ERR,
+                                "error: dax access failed (%d)", err);
+                }
+                return err;
+        }
+
+        return 0;
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(bdev_dax_supported);
+
 /*
  * pseudo-fs
  */
diff --git a/include/linux/blkdev.h b/include/linux/blkdev.h
index 78c48ab22f46..71231a55debd 100644
--- a/include/linux/blkdev.h
+++ b/include/linux/blkdev.h
@@ -1688,6 +1688,7 @@ extern int bdev_read_page(struct block_device *, sector_t, struct page *);
 extern int bdev_write_page(struct block_device *, sector_t, struct page *,
                                                 struct writeback_control *);
 extern long bdev_direct_access(struct block_device *, struct blk_dax_ctl *);
+extern int bdev_dax_supported(struct super_block *, int);
 #else /* CONFIG_BLOCK */
 
 struct block_device;