linux/fs
Linus Torvalds 88793e5c77 The libnvdimm sub-system introduces, in addition to the libnvdimm-core,
4 drivers / enabling modules:
 
 NFIT:
 Instantiates an "nvdimm bus" with the core and registers memory devices
 (NVDIMMs) enumerated by the ACPI 6.0 NFIT (NVDIMM Firmware Interface
 table).  After registering NVDIMMs the NFIT driver then registers
 "region" devices.  A libnvdimm-region defines an access mode and the
 boundaries of persistent memory media.  A region may span multiple
 NVDIMMs that are interleaved by the hardware memory controller.  In
 turn, a libnvdimm-region can be carved into a "namespace" device and
 bound to the PMEM or BLK driver which will attach a Linux block device
 (disk) interface to the memory.
 
 PMEM:
 Initially merged in v4.1 this driver for contiguous spans of persistent
 memory address ranges is re-worked to drive PMEM-namespaces emitted by
 the libnvdimm-core.  In this update the PMEM driver, on x86, gains the
 ability to assert that writes to persistent memory have been flushed all
 the way through the caches and buffers in the platform to persistent
 media.  See memcpy_to_pmem() and wmb_pmem().
 
 BLK:
 This new driver enables access to persistent memory media through "Block
 Data Windows" as defined by the NFIT.  The primary difference of this
 driver to PMEM is that only a small window of persistent memory is
 mapped into system address space at any given point in time.  Per-NVDIMM
 windows are reprogrammed at run time, per-I/O, to access different
 portions of the media.  BLK-mode, by definition, does not support DAX.
 
 BTT:
 This is a library, optionally consumed by either PMEM or BLK, that
 converts a byte-accessible namespace into a disk with atomic sector
 update semantics (prevents sector tearing on crash or power loss).  The
 sinister aspect of sector tearing is that most applications do not know
 they have a atomic sector dependency.  At least today's disk's rarely
 ever tear sectors and if they do one almost certainly gets a CRC error
 on access.  NVDIMMs will always tear and always silently.  Until an
 application is audited to be robust in the presence of sector-tearing
 the usage of BTT is recommended.
 
 Thanks to: Ross Zwisler, Jeff Moyer, Vishal Verma, Christoph Hellwig,
 Ingo Molnar, Neil Brown, Boaz Harrosh, Robert Elliott, Matthew Wilcox,
 Andy Rudoff, Linda Knippers, Toshi Kani, Nicholas Moulin, Rafael
 Wysocki, and Bob Moore.
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Merge tag 'libnvdimm-for-4.2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/djbw/nvdimm

Pull libnvdimm subsystem from Dan Williams:
 "The libnvdimm sub-system introduces, in addition to the
  libnvdimm-core, 4 drivers / enabling modules:

  NFIT:
    Instantiates an "nvdimm bus" with the core and registers memory
    devices (NVDIMMs) enumerated by the ACPI 6.0 NFIT (NVDIMM Firmware
    Interface table).

    After registering NVDIMMs the NFIT driver then registers "region"
    devices.  A libnvdimm-region defines an access mode and the
    boundaries of persistent memory media.  A region may span multiple
    NVDIMMs that are interleaved by the hardware memory controller.  In
    turn, a libnvdimm-region can be carved into a "namespace" device and
    bound to the PMEM or BLK driver which will attach a Linux block
    device (disk) interface to the memory.

  PMEM:
    Initially merged in v4.1 this driver for contiguous spans of
    persistent memory address ranges is re-worked to drive
    PMEM-namespaces emitted by the libnvdimm-core.

    In this update the PMEM driver, on x86, gains the ability to assert
    that writes to persistent memory have been flushed all the way
    through the caches and buffers in the platform to persistent media.
    See memcpy_to_pmem() and wmb_pmem().

  BLK:
    This new driver enables access to persistent memory media through
    "Block Data Windows" as defined by the NFIT.  The primary difference
    of this driver to PMEM is that only a small window of persistent
    memory is mapped into system address space at any given point in
    time.

    Per-NVDIMM windows are reprogrammed at run time, per-I/O, to access
    different portions of the media.  BLK-mode, by definition, does not
    support DAX.

  BTT:
    This is a library, optionally consumed by either PMEM or BLK, that
    converts a byte-accessible namespace into a disk with atomic sector
    update semantics (prevents sector tearing on crash or power loss).

    The sinister aspect of sector tearing is that most applications do
    not know they have a atomic sector dependency.  At least today's
    disk's rarely ever tear sectors and if they do one almost certainly
    gets a CRC error on access.  NVDIMMs will always tear and always
    silently.  Until an application is audited to be robust in the
    presence of sector-tearing the usage of BTT is recommended.

  Thanks to: Ross Zwisler, Jeff Moyer, Vishal Verma, Christoph Hellwig,
  Ingo Molnar, Neil Brown, Boaz Harrosh, Robert Elliott, Matthew Wilcox,
  Andy Rudoff, Linda Knippers, Toshi Kani, Nicholas Moulin, Rafael
  Wysocki, and Bob Moore"

* tag 'libnvdimm-for-4.2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/djbw/nvdimm: (33 commits)
  arch, x86: pmem api for ensuring durability of persistent memory updates
  libnvdimm: Add sysfs numa_node to NVDIMM devices
  libnvdimm: Set numa_node to NVDIMM devices
  acpi: Add acpi_map_pxm_to_online_node()
  libnvdimm, nfit: handle unarmed dimms, mark namespaces read-only
  pmem: flag pmem block devices as non-rotational
  libnvdimm: enable iostat
  pmem: make_request cleanups
  libnvdimm, pmem: fix up max_hw_sectors
  libnvdimm, blk: add support for blk integrity
  libnvdimm, btt: add support for blk integrity
  fs/block_dev.c: skip rw_page if bdev has integrity
  libnvdimm: Non-Volatile Devices
  tools/testing/nvdimm: libnvdimm unit test infrastructure
  libnvdimm, nfit, nd_blk: driver for BLK-mode access persistent memory
  nd_btt: atomic sector updates
  libnvdimm: infrastructure for btt devices
  libnvdimm: write blk label set
  libnvdimm: write pmem label set
  libnvdimm: blk labels and namespace instantiation
  ...
2015-06-29 10:34:42 -07:00
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9p Merge branch 'for-4.2/writeback' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block 2015-06-25 16:00:17 -07:00
adfs Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs 2015-04-26 17:22:07 -07:00
affs Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs 2015-04-26 17:22:07 -07:00
afs net: Add a struct net parameter to sock_create_kern 2015-05-11 10:50:17 -04:00
autofs4 don't pass nameidata to ->follow_link() 2015-05-10 22:20:15 -04:00
befs fs/befs/btree.c: remove unneeded initializations 2015-06-25 17:00:43 -07:00
bfs Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs 2015-04-26 17:22:07 -07:00
btrfs Merge branch 'for-4.2/core' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block 2015-06-25 14:29:53 -07:00
cachefiles VFS: fs/cachefiles: d_backing_inode() annotations 2015-04-15 15:06:59 -04:00
ceph ceph: switch to simple_follow_link() 2015-05-10 22:18:28 -04:00
cifs Merge branch 'for-linus-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs 2015-06-22 12:51:21 -07:00
coda VFS: normal filesystems (and lustre): d_inode() annotations 2015-04-15 15:06:57 -04:00
configfs configfs: unexport/make static config_item_init() 2015-06-24 17:49:39 -07:00
cramfs
debugfs debugfs: switch to simple_follow_link() 2015-05-10 22:18:24 -04:00
devpts VFS: normal filesystems (and lustre): d_inode() annotations 2015-04-15 15:06:57 -04:00
dlm net: Add a struct net parameter to sock_create_kern 2015-05-11 10:50:17 -04:00
ecryptfs get rid of assorted nameidata-related debris 2015-05-15 01:10:37 -04:00
efivarfs Merge branch 'x86-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2015-05-06 10:57:37 -07:00
efs fs/efs: femove unneeded cast 2015-06-25 17:00:42 -07:00
exofs exofs: switch to {simple,page}_symlink_inode_operations 2015-05-10 22:18:27 -04:00
exportfs VFS: (Scripted) Convert S_ISLNK/DIR/REG(dentry->d_inode) to d_is_*(dentry) 2015-02-22 11:38:41 -05:00
ext2 Merge branch 'for-4.2/writeback' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block 2015-06-25 16:00:17 -07:00
ext3 Merge branch 'for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jack/linux-fs 2015-06-24 20:07:10 -07:00
ext4 Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew) 2015-06-26 09:52:05 -07:00
f2fs Merge branch 'for-4.2/writeback' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block 2015-06-25 16:00:17 -07:00
fat writeback: separate out include/linux/backing-dev-defs.h 2015-06-02 08:33:34 -06:00
freevxfs freevxfs: switch to simple_follow_link() 2015-05-10 22:18:27 -04:00
fscache
fuse Merge branch 'for-4.2/writeback' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block 2015-06-25 16:00:17 -07:00
gfs2 GFS2: merge window 2015-06-27 09:47:46 -07:00
hfs writeback: separate out include/linux/backing-dev-defs.h 2015-06-02 08:33:34 -06:00
hfsplus writeback: separate out include/linux/backing-dev-defs.h 2015-06-02 08:33:34 -06:00
hostfs Merge branch 'for-linus-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs 2015-06-22 12:51:21 -07:00
hpfs VFS: normal filesystems (and lustre): d_inode() annotations 2015-04-15 15:06:57 -04:00
hugetlbfs mm/hugetlb: reduce arch dependent code about hugetlb_prefault_arch_hook 2015-06-24 17:49:41 -07:00
isofs VFS: normal filesystems (and lustre): d_inode() annotations 2015-04-15 15:06:57 -04:00
jbd
jbd2 Revert "jbd2: speedup jbd2_journal_dirty_metadata()" 2015-06-27 09:41:50 -07:00
jffs2 MTD fixes for 4.2 2015-06-23 17:38:39 -07:00
jfs jfs: switch to simple_follow_link() 2015-05-10 22:18:26 -04:00
kernfs Merge branch 'for-4.2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/cgroup 2015-06-26 19:50:04 -07:00
lockd nfsd: eliminate NFSD_DEBUG 2015-04-21 16:16:02 -04:00
logfs logfs: fix a pagecache leak for symlinks 2015-05-10 22:18:28 -04:00
minix fs/minix: remove unneeded cast 2015-06-25 17:00:42 -07:00
ncpfs VFS: normal filesystems (and lustre): d_inode() annotations 2015-04-15 15:06:57 -04:00
nfs Merge branch 'for-4.2/writeback' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block 2015-06-25 16:00:17 -07:00
nfs_common
nfsd nfsd: wrap too long lines in nfsd4_encode_read 2015-06-22 14:15:05 -04:00
nilfs2 Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew) 2015-06-26 09:52:05 -07:00
nls
notify fanotify: fix event filtering with FAN_ONDIR set 2015-03-12 18:46:08 -07:00
ntfs mm: do not ignore mapping_gfp_mask in page cache allocation paths 2015-06-24 17:49:44 -07:00
ocfs2 Merge branch 'for-4.2/writeback' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block 2015-06-25 16:00:17 -07:00
omfs omfs: fix potential integer overflow in allocator 2015-05-28 18:25:19 -07:00
openpromfs
overlayfs Merge branch 'for-linus-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs 2015-06-22 12:51:21 -07:00
proc fs, proc: introduce CONFIG_PROC_CHILDREN 2015-06-25 17:00:37 -07:00
pstore ramoops: make it possible to change mem_type param. 2015-05-21 09:52:29 -07:00
qnx4
qnx6 VFS: normal filesystems (and lustre): d_inode() annotations 2015-04-15 15:06:57 -04:00
quota Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs 2015-04-26 17:22:07 -07:00
ramfs VFS: normal filesystems (and lustre): d_inode() annotations 2015-04-15 15:06:57 -04:00
reiserfs Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew) 2015-06-26 09:52:05 -07:00
romfs make new_sync_{read,write}() static 2015-04-11 22:29:40 -04:00
squashfs VFS: normal filesystems (and lustre): d_inode() annotations 2015-04-15 15:06:57 -04:00
sysfs fs: sysfs: don't pass count == 0 to bin file readers 2015-06-01 10:17:17 +09:00
sysv sysv: switch to simple_follow_link() 2015-05-10 22:18:26 -04:00
tracefs tracing: Have mkdir and rmdir be part of tracefs 2015-02-03 12:48:43 -05:00
ubifs This pull request includes the following UBI/UBIFS changes: 2015-06-25 14:11:34 -07:00
udf udf: fix udf_load_pvoldesc() 2015-05-21 15:19:15 +02:00
ufs Merge branch 'for-4.2/writeback' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block 2015-06-25 16:00:17 -07:00
xfs Merge branch 'for-4.2/writeback' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block 2015-06-25 16:00:17 -07:00
aio.c Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs 2015-04-16 23:27:56 -04:00
anon_inodes.c
attr.c
bad_inode.c don't bother with most of the bad_file_ops methods 2015-02-20 04:03:58 -05:00
binfmt_aout.c
binfmt_elf_fdpic.c
binfmt_elf.c fs/binfmt_elf.c:load_elf_binary(): return -EINVAL on zero-length mappings 2015-05-28 18:25:18 -07:00
binfmt_em86.c syscalls: implement execveat() system call 2014-12-13 12:42:51 -08:00
binfmt_flat.c
binfmt_misc.c Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs 2015-04-26 17:22:07 -07:00
binfmt_script.c syscalls: implement execveat() system call 2014-12-13 12:42:51 -08:00
block_dev.c The libnvdimm sub-system introduces, in addition to the libnvdimm-core, 2015-06-29 10:34:42 -07:00
buffer.c buffer: remove unusued 'ret' variable 2015-06-02 09:22:34 -06:00
char_dev.c fs: introduce f_op->mmap_capabilities for nommu mmap support 2015-01-20 14:02:58 -07:00
compat_binfmt_elf.c
compat_ioctl.c Bluetooth: bnep: Add support for get bnep features via ioctl 2015-04-03 23:21:34 +02:00
compat.c
coredump.c coredump: add __printf attribute to cn_*printf functions 2015-06-25 17:00:43 -07:00
dax.c Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs 2015-04-26 17:22:07 -07:00
dcache.c Merge branch 'timers-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2015-06-22 18:57:44 -07:00
dcookies.c
direct-io.c direct-io: only inc/dec inode->i_dio_count for file systems 2015-04-24 15:45:28 -04:00
drop_caches.c vmscan: per memory cgroup slab shrinkers 2015-02-12 18:54:09 -08:00
eventfd.c eventfd: don't take the spinlock in eventfd_poll 2015-02-17 14:34:52 -08:00
eventpoll.c epoll: optimize setting task running after blocking 2015-02-13 21:21:40 -08:00
exec.c parisc,metag: Fix crashes due to stack randomization on stack-grows-upwards architectures 2015-05-12 22:03:44 +02:00
fcntl.c vfs: renumber FMODE_NONOTIFY and add to uniqueness check 2015-01-08 15:10:52 -08:00
fhandle.c vfs: read file_handle only once in handle_to_path 2015-06-02 10:29:07 -07:00
file_table.c ->aio_read and ->aio_write removed 2015-04-11 22:29:43 -04:00
file.c mm: rcu-protected get_mm_exe_file() 2015-04-17 09:04:07 -04:00
filesystems.c
fs_pin.c fs_pin: Allow for the possibility that m_list or s_list go unused. 2015-04-09 11:39:55 -05:00
fs_struct.c
fs-writeback.c writeback: do foreign inode detection iff cgroup writeback is enabled 2015-06-17 12:47:37 -06:00
inode.c Merge branch 'for-4.2/writeback' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block 2015-06-25 16:00:17 -07:00
internal.h trylock_super(): replacement for grab_super_passive() 2015-02-22 11:38:42 -05:00
ioctl.c fsioctl.c: make generic_block_fiemap() signal-tolerant 2015-02-10 14:30:30 -08:00
Kconfig f2fs: relocate Kconfig from misc filesystems 2015-04-10 15:08:35 -07:00
Kconfig.binfmt mm: split ET_DYN ASLR from mmap ASLR 2015-04-14 16:49:05 -07:00
libfs.c new helper: free_page_put_link() 2015-05-11 08:13:13 -04:00
locks.c proc: show locks in /proc/pid/fdinfo/X 2015-04-17 09:04:12 -04:00
Makefile um: Remove hppfs 2015-05-31 13:23:08 +02:00
mbcache.c
mount.h new helper: __legitimize_mnt() 2015-05-11 08:13:14 -04:00
mpage.c writeback: implement foreign cgroup inode detection 2015-06-02 08:40:20 -06:00
namei.c turn user_{path_at,path,lpath,path_dir}() into static inlines 2015-05-15 01:10:45 -04:00
namespace.c new helper: __legitimize_mnt() 2015-05-11 08:13:14 -04:00
no-block.c
nsfs.c VFS: assorted weird filesystems: d_inode() annotations 2015-04-15 15:06:58 -04:00
open.c VFS: Handle lower layer dentry/inode in pathwalk 2015-05-11 08:13:10 -04:00
pipe.c VFS: assorted weird filesystems: d_inode() annotations 2015-04-15 15:06:58 -04:00
pnode.c mnt: Don't propagate unmounts to locked mounts 2015-04-02 20:34:20 -05:00
pnode.h mnt: Honor MNT_LOCKED when detaching mounts 2015-04-09 11:39:55 -05:00
posix_acl.c VFS: assorted d_backing_inode() annotations 2015-04-15 15:06:59 -04:00
proc_namespace.c vfs: add support for a lazytime mount option 2015-02-05 02:45:00 -05:00
read_write.c new_sync_write(): discard ->ki_pos unless the return value is positive 2015-04-11 22:29:46 -04:00
readdir.c
select.c locking/arch: Rename set_mb() to smp_store_mb() 2015-05-19 08:32:00 +02:00
seq_file.c bitmap, cpumask, nodemask: remove dedicated formatting functions 2015-02-13 21:21:39 -08:00
signalfd.c
splice.c Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew) 2015-06-24 20:47:21 -07:00
stack.c
stat.c VFS: assorted d_backing_inode() annotations 2015-04-15 15:06:59 -04:00
statfs.c
super.c cleancache: remove limit on the number of cleancache enabled filesystems 2015-04-14 16:49:03 -07:00
sync.c vfs: add support for a lazytime mount option 2015-02-05 02:45:00 -05:00
timerfd.c
utimes.c
xattr.c evm: fix potential race when removing xattrs 2015-05-21 13:28:47 -04:00