linux-kernel - [PATCH v2 0/3] libnvdimm, pfn: support section misaligned pmem

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Date:	Thu, 03 Mar 2016 13:53:04 -0800
From:	Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@...el.com>
To:	linux-nvdimm@...ts.01.org
Cc:	Haozhong Zhang <haozhong.zhang@...el.com>,
	Ross Zwisler <ross.zwisler@...ux.intel.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Toshi Kani <toshi.kani@....com>,
	linux-mm@...ck.org
Subject: [PATCH v2 0/3] libnvdimm, pfn: support section misaligned pmem

Permit platforms with section-misaligned persistent memory to establish
memory-mode (pfn) namespaces.  This sacrifices 64-128MB of pmem to gain
third-party DMA/RDMA support.

Changes since v1 [1]:

1/ Dropped "mm: fix mixed zone detection in devm_memremap_pages" since
   it was pulled into Andrew's tree.

2/ Moved CONFIG_SPARSEMEM #ifdef guards into drivers/nvdimm/pfn.h

3/ Added "libnvdimm, pmem: adjust for section collisions with 'System
   RAM'", i.e. support for reserving head and tail capacity out of a
   namespace to permit a section aligned range to be used for a
   'pfn'-device instance.

4/ Added 'resource' and 'size' attributes to an active pfn instance.

[1]: https://lists.01.org/pipermail/linux-nvdimm/2016-February/004727.html

This series is built on top of tip.git/core/resources.

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Dan Williams (3):
      libnvdimm, pmem: fix 'pfn' support for section-misaligned namespaces
      libnvdimm, pmem: adjust for section collisions with 'System RAM'
      libnvdimm, pfn: 'resource'-address and 'size' attributes for pfn devices

 drivers/nvdimm/namespace_devs.c |    7 ++
 drivers/nvdimm/pfn.h            |   23 ++++++
 drivers/nvdimm/pfn_devs.c       |   61 ++++++++++++++++
 drivers/nvdimm/pmem.c           |  145 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++---------
 4 files changed, 200 insertions(+), 36 deletions(-)