linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH RFC 10/10] nvdimm/e820: add multiple namespaces support

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Date:   Tue, 4 Feb 2020 16:57:14 -0500
From:   Barret Rhoden <brho@...gle.com>
To:     Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@...el.com>
Cc:     Joao Martins <joao.m.martins@...cle.com>,
        linux-nvdimm <linux-nvdimm@...ts.01.org>,
        Vishal Verma <vishal.l.verma@...el.com>,
        Dave Jiang <dave.jiang@...el.com>,
        Ira Weiny <ira.weiny@...el.com>,
        Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@...hat.com>,
        Cornelia Huck <cohuck@...hat.com>,
        KVM list <kvm@...r.kernel.org>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
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        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>, Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>,
        "H . Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>, X86 ML <x86@...nel.org>,
        Liran Alon <liran.alon@...cle.com>,
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        Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@...cle.com>,
        Matthew Wilcox <willy@...radead.org>,
        Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@...cle.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC 10/10] nvdimm/e820: add multiple namespaces support

On 2/4/20 4:43 PM, Dan Williams wrote:
> Ah, got it, you only ended up at wanting namespace labels because
> there was no other way to carve up device-dax. That's changing as part
> of the efi_fake_mem= enabling and I have a patch set in the works to
> allow discontiguous sub-divisions of a device-dax range. Note that is
> this branch rebases frequently:
> 
> https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/djbw/nvdimm.git/log/?h=libnvdimm-pending

Cool, thanks.  I'll check it out!

Barret