linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v3 09/21] libnd, nd_pmem: add libnd support to the pmem driver

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Date:	Sat, 23 May 2015 09:59:28 -0700
From:	Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@...el.com>
To:	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
Cc:	Jens Axboe <axboe@...nel.dk>, Neil Brown <neilb@...e.de>,
	linux-nvdimm@...1.01.org, "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Andy Lutomirski <luto@...capital.net>,
	Jens Axboe <axboe@...com>, linux-acpi@...r.kernel.org,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
	Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 09/21] libnd, nd_pmem: add libnd support to the pmem driver

On Sat, May 23, 2015 at 7:39 AM, Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org> wrote:
> On Wed, May 20, 2015 at 04:57:00PM -0400, Dan Williams wrote:
>> nd_pmem attaches to persistent memory regions and namespaces emitted by
>> the libnd subsystem, and, same as the original pmem driver, presents the
>> system-physical-address range as a block device.
>>
>> The existing e820-type-12 to pmem setup is converted to a full libnd bus
>> that emits an nd_namespace_io device.
>
> This looks completely bonkers.  If you want to pretend the legacy
> e820 NVDIMMs fit into your new world do that directly in
> arch/x86/kernel/pmem.c instead of splitting it over two files.

I was looking to preserve the ability to keep libnd as a module, but
it doesn't really matter given the small number of systems that will
end up caring about X86_PMEM_LEGACY in the near term.  I'll skip the
platform device infrastructure and just register the pmem regions
directly from arch/x86/kernel/pmem.c.
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