linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] device-dax: Add a 'resource' attribute

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Date:   Thu, 20 Jun 2019 17:53:36 -0700
From:   Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@...el.com>
To:     Vishal Verma <vishal.l.verma@...el.com>
Cc:     linux-nvdimm <linux-nvdimm@...ts.01.org>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@...ux.intel.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] device-dax: Add a 'resource' attribute

On Thu, Jun 20, 2019 at 5:41 PM Vishal Verma <vishal.l.verma@...el.com> wrote:
>
> device-dax based devices were missing a 'resource' attribute to indicate
> the physical address range contributed by the device in question. This
> information is desirable to userspace tooling that may want to use the
> dax device as system-ram, and wants to selectively hotplug and online
> the memory blocks associated with a given device.
>
> Without this, the tooling would have to parse /proc/iomem for the memory
> ranges contributed by dax devices, which can be a workaround, but it is
> far easier to provide this information in the sysfs hierarchy.
>
> Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@...ux.intel.com>
> Cc: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@...el.com>
> Signed-off-by: Vishal Verma <vishal.l.verma@...el.com>

Looks good to me, applied.