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libnvdimm, pmem: add libnvdimm support to the pmem driver
authorDan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Tue, 9 Jun 2015 19:33:45 +0000 (15:33 -0400)
committerDan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Thu, 25 Jun 2015 01:24:10 +0000 (21:24 -0400)
commit9f53f9fa4ad1d8bddd4d14359cdabc531aedffe8
treeaa2a412de2b39b8b042e5cd9ae5a223b79ff8640
parent18da2c9ee41a036bf470dbad73c18a815725d36e
libnvdimm, pmem: add libnvdimm support to the pmem driver

nd_pmem attaches to persistent memory regions and namespaces emitted by
the libnvdimm subsystem, and, same as the original pmem driver, presents
the system-physical-address range as a block device.

The existing e820-type-12 to pmem setup is converted to an nvdimm_bus
that emits an nd_namespace_io device.

Note that the X in 'pmemX' is now derived from the parent region.  This
provides some stability to the pmem devices names from boot-to-boot.
The minor numbers are also more predictable by passing 0 to
alloc_disk().

Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Cc: Boaz Harrosh <boaz@plexistor.com>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Ross Zwisler <ross.zwisler@linux.intel.com>
Acked-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Tested-by: Toshi Kani <toshi.kani@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
arch/x86/Kconfig
arch/x86/kernel/pmem.c
drivers/nvdimm/pmem.c