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If an application wants exclusive access to all of the persistent memory provided by an NVDIMM namespace it can use this raw-block-dax facility to forgo establishing a filesystem. This capability is targeted primarily to hypervisors wanting to provision persistent memory for guests. It can be disabled / enabled dynamically via the new BLKDAXSET ioctl. Cc: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Cc: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Ross Zwisler <ross.zwisler@linux.intel.com> Reported-by: kbuild test robot <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.com> Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>