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libnvdimm, pmem: 'struct page' for pmem
authorDan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Sat, 1 Aug 2015 06:16:37 +0000 (02:16 -0400)
committerDan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Sat, 29 Aug 2015 03:40:04 +0000 (23:40 -0400)
commit5f58ed823cd193fcdaeb860a66b69dc2f5dcdd88
tree5e6ff1b400f4f1c42c7aecc76234f007d70e6a25
parentd11abd1027387cac9d8419086de63f95f7a4afbd
libnvdimm, pmem: 'struct page' for pmem

Enable the pmem driver to handle PFN device instances.  Attaching a pmem
namespace to a pfn device triggers the driver to allocate and initialize
struct page entries for pmem.  Memory capacity for this allocation comes
exclusively from RAM for now which is suitable for low PMEM to RAM
ratios.  This mechanism will be expanded later for setting an "allocate
from PMEM" policy.

Cc: Boaz Harrosh <boaz@plexistor.com>
Cc: Ross Zwisler <ross.zwisler@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
drivers/nvdimm/Kconfig
drivers/nvdimm/nd.h
drivers/nvdimm/pfn_devs.c
drivers/nvdimm/pmem.c
tools/testing/nvdimm/Kbuild
tools/testing/nvdimm/test/iomap.c