b6ffe9ba46
* Introduce the _flushcache() family of memory copy helpers and use them
for persistent memory write operations on x86. The _flushcache()
semantic indicates that the cache is either bypassed for the copy
operation (movnt) or any lines dirtied by the copy operation are
written back (clwb, clflushopt, or clflush).
* Extend dax_operations with ->copy_from_iter() and ->flush()
operations. These operations and other infrastructure updates allow
all persistent memory specific dax functionality to be pushed into
libnvdimm and the pmem driver directly. It also allows dax-specific
sysfs attributes to be linked to a host device, for example:
/sys/block/pmem0/dax/write_cache
* Add support for the new NVDIMM platform/firmware mechanisms introduced
in ACPI 6.2 and UEFI 2.7. This support includes the v1.2 namespace
label format, extensions to the address-range-scrub command set, new
error injection commands, and a new BTT (block-translation-table)
layout. These updates support inter-OS and pre-OS compatibility.
* Fix a longstanding memory corruption bug in nfit_test.
* Make the pmem and nvdimm-region 'badblocks' sysfs files poll(2)
capable.
* Miscellaneous fixes and small updates across libnvdimm and the nfit
driver.
Acknowledgements that came after the branch was pushed:
commit 6aa734a2f38e "libnvdimm, region, pmem: fix 'badblocks'
sysfs_get_dirent() reference lifetime"
Reviewed-by: Toshi Kani <toshi.kani@hpe.com>
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Merge tag 'libnvdimm-for-4.13' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/nvdimm/nvdimm
Pull libnvdimm updates from Dan Williams:
"libnvdimm updates for the latest ACPI and UEFI specifications. This
pull request also includes new 'struct dax_operations' enabling to
undo the abuse of copy_user_nocache() for copy operations to pmem.
The dax work originally missed 4.12 to address concerns raised by Al.
Summary:
- Introduce the _flushcache() family of memory copy helpers and use
them for persistent memory write operations on x86. The
_flushcache() semantic indicates that the cache is either bypassed
for the copy operation (movnt) or any lines dirtied by the copy
operation are written back (clwb, clflushopt, or clflush).
- Extend dax_operations with ->copy_from_iter() and ->flush()
operations. These operations and other infrastructure updates allow
all persistent memory specific dax functionality to be pushed into
libnvdimm and the pmem driver directly. It also allows dax-specific
sysfs attributes to be linked to a host device, for example:
/sys/block/pmem0/dax/write_cache
- Add support for the new NVDIMM platform/firmware mechanisms
introduced in ACPI 6.2 and UEFI 2.7. This support includes the v1.2
namespace label format, extensions to the address-range-scrub
command set, new error injection commands, and a new BTT
(block-translation-table) layout. These updates support inter-OS
and pre-OS compatibility.
- Fix a longstanding memory corruption bug in nfit_test.
- Make the pmem and nvdimm-region 'badblocks' sysfs files poll(2)
capable.
- Miscellaneous fixes and small updates across libnvdimm and the nfit
driver.
Acknowledgements that came after the branch was pushed: commit
6aa734a2f38e ("libnvdimm, region, pmem: fix 'badblocks'
sysfs_get_dirent() reference lifetime") was reviewed by Toshi Kani
<toshi.kani@hpe.com>"
* tag 'libnvdimm-for-4.13' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/nvdimm/nvdimm: (42 commits)
libnvdimm, namespace: record 'lbasize' for pmem namespaces
acpi/nfit: Issue Start ARS to retrieve existing records
libnvdimm: New ACPI 6.2 DSM functions
acpi, nfit: Show bus_dsm_mask in sysfs
libnvdimm, acpi, nfit: Add bus level dsm mask for pass thru.
acpi, nfit: Enable DSM pass thru for root functions.
libnvdimm: passthru functions clear to send
libnvdimm, btt: convert some info messages to warn/err
libnvdimm, region, pmem: fix 'badblocks' sysfs_get_dirent() reference lifetime
libnvdimm: fix the clear-error check in nsio_rw_bytes
libnvdimm, btt: fix btt_rw_page not returning errors
acpi, nfit: quiet invalid block-aperture-region warnings
libnvdimm, btt: BTT updates for UEFI 2.7 format
acpi, nfit: constify *_attribute_group
libnvdimm, pmem: disable dax flushing when pmem is fronting a volatile region
libnvdimm, pmem, dax: export a cache control attribute
dax: convert to bitmask for flags
dax: remove default copy_from_iter fallback
libnvdimm, nfit: enable support for volatile ranges
libnvdimm, pmem: fix persistence warning
...
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