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    Merge tag 'libnvdimm-for-4.3' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/nvdimm/nvdimm · 12f03ee6
    Linus Torvalds authored
    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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