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authorLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2015-09-08 17:35:59 -0400
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2015-09-08 17:35:59 -0400
commit12f03ee606914317e7e6a0815e53a48205c31dae (patch)
treef8579bf77d29b3921e1877e0ae12ec65b5ebc738 /mm/Kconfig
parentd9241b22b58e012f26dd2244508d9f4837402af0 (diff)
parent004f1afbe199e6ab20805b95aefd83ccd24bc5c7 (diff)
Merge tag 'libnvdimm-for-4.3' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/nvdimm/nvdimm
Pull libnvdimm updates from Dan Williams: "This update has successfully completed a 0day-kbuild run and has appeared in a linux-next release. The changes outside of the typical drivers/nvdimm/ and drivers/acpi/nfit.[ch] paths are related to the removal of IORESOURCE_CACHEABLE, the introduction of memremap(), and the introduction of ZONE_DEVICE + devm_memremap_pages(). Summary: - Introduce ZONE_DEVICE and devm_memremap_pages() as a generic mechanism for adding device-driver-discovered memory regions to the kernel's direct map. This facility is used by the pmem driver to enable pfn_to_page() operations on the page frames returned by DAX ('direct_access' in 'struct block_device_operations'). For now, the 'memmap' allocation for these "device" pages comes from "System RAM". Support for allocating the memmap from device memory will arrive in a later kernel. - Introduce memremap() to replace usages of ioremap_cache() and ioremap_wt(). memremap() drops the __iomem annotation for these mappings to memory that do not have i/o side effects. The replacement of ioremap_cache() with memremap() is limited to the pmem driver to ease merging the api change in v4.3. Completion of the conversion is targeted for v4.4. - Similar to the usage of memcpy_to_pmem() + wmb_pmem() in the pmem driver, update the VFS DAX implementation and PMEM api to provide persistence guarantees for kernel operations on a DAX mapping. - Convert the ACPI NFIT 'BLK' driver to map the block apertures as cacheable to improve performance. - Miscellaneous updates and fixes to libnvdimm including support for issuing "address range scrub" commands, clarifying the optimal 'sector size' of pmem devices, a clarification of the usage of the ACPI '_STA' (status) property for DIMM devices, and other minor fixes" * tag 'libnvdimm-for-4.3' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/nvdimm/nvdimm: (34 commits) libnvdimm, pmem: direct map legacy pmem by default libnvdimm, pmem: 'struct page' for pmem libnvdimm, pfn: 'struct page' provider infrastructure x86, pmem: clarify that ARCH_HAS_PMEM_API implies PMEM mapped WB add devm_memremap_pages mm: ZONE_DEVICE for "device memory" mm: move __phys_to_pfn and __pfn_to_phys to asm/generic/memory_model.h dax: drop size parameter to ->direct_access() nd_blk: change aperture mapping from WC to WB nvdimm: change to use generic kvfree() pmem, dax: have direct_access use __pmem annotation dax: update I/O path to do proper PMEM flushing pmem: add copy_from_iter_pmem() and clear_pmem() pmem, x86: clean up conditional pmem includes pmem: remove layer when calling arch_has_wmb_pmem() pmem, x86: move x86 PMEM API to new pmem.h header libnvdimm, e820: make CONFIG_X86_PMEM_LEGACY a tristate option pmem: switch to devm_ allocations devres: add devm_memremap libnvdimm, btt: write and validate parent_uuid ...
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@@ -648,3 +648,20 @@ config DEFERRED_STRUCT_PAGE_INIT
648 when kswapd starts. This has a potential performance impact on 648 when kswapd starts. This has a potential performance impact on
649 processes running early in the lifetime of the systemm until kswapd 649 processes running early in the lifetime of the systemm until kswapd
650 finishes the initialisation. 650 finishes the initialisation.
651
652config ZONE_DEVICE
653 bool "Device memory (pmem, etc...) hotplug support" if EXPERT
654 default !ZONE_DMA
655 depends on !ZONE_DMA
656 depends on MEMORY_HOTPLUG
657 depends on MEMORY_HOTREMOVE
658 depends on X86_64 #arch_add_memory() comprehends device memory
659
660 help
661 Device memory hotplug support allows for establishing pmem,
662 or other device driver discovered memory regions, in the
663 memmap. This allows pfn_to_page() lookups of otherwise
664 "device-physical" addresses which is needed for using a DAX
665 mapping in an O_DIRECT operation, among other things.
666
667 If FS_DAX is enabled, then say Y.