Merge tag 'libnvdimm-for-4.7' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/nvdimm/nvdimm
Pull libnvdimm updates from Dan Williams:
"The bulk of this update was stabilized before the merge window and
appeared in -next. The "device dax" implementation was revised this
week in response to review feedback, and to address failures detected
by the recently expanded ndctl unit test suite.
Not included in this pull request are two dax topic branches (dax
error handling, and dax radix-tree locking). These topics were
deferred to get a few more days of -next integration testing, and to
coordinate a branch baseline with Ted and the ext4 tree. Vishal and
Ross will send the error handling and locking topics respectively in
the next few days.
This branch has received a positive build result from the kbuild robot
across 226 configs.
Summary:
- Device DAX for persistent memory: Device DAX is the device-centric
analogue of Filesystem DAX (CONFIG_FS_DAX). It allows memory
ranges to be allocated and mapped without need of an intervening
file system. Device DAX is strict, precise and predictable.
Specifically this interface:
a) Guarantees fault granularity with respect to a given page size
(pte, pmd, or pud) set at configuration time.
b) Enforces deterministic behavior by being strict about what
fault scenarios are supported.
Persistent memory is the first target, but the mechanism is also
targeted for exclusive allocations of performance/feature
differentiated memory ranges.
- Support for the HPE DSM (device specific method) command formats.
This enables management of these first generation devices until a
unified DSM specification materializes.
- Further ACPI 6.1 compliance with support for the common dimm
identifier format.
- Various fixes and cleanups across the subsystem"
* tag 'libnvdimm-for-4.7' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/nvdimm/nvdimm: (40 commits)
libnvdimm, dax: fix deletion
libnvdimm, dax: fix alignment validation
libnvdimm, dax: autodetect support
libnvdimm: release ida resources
Revert "block: enable dax for raw block devices"
/dev/dax, core: file operations and dax-mmap
/dev/dax, pmem: direct access to persistent memory
libnvdimm: stop requiring a driver ->remove() method
libnvdimm, dax: record the specified alignment of a dax-device instance
libnvdimm, dax: reserve space to store labels for device-dax
libnvdimm, dax: introduce device-dax infrastructure
nfit: add sysfs dimm 'family' and 'dsm_mask' attributes
tools/testing/nvdimm: ND_CMD_CALL support
nfit: disable vendor specific commands
nfit: export subsystem ids as attributes
nfit: fix format interface code byte order per ACPI6.1
nfit, libnvdimm: limited/whitelisted dimm command marshaling mechanism
nfit, libnvdimm: clarify "commands" vs "_DSMs"
libnvdimm: increase max envelope size for ioctl
acpi/nfit: Add sysfs "id" for NVDIMM ID
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