linux-stable/kernel
Linus Torvalds 8759957b77 libnvdimm for 4.6
1/ Asynchronous address range scrub:
 Given the capacities of next generation persistent memory devices a
 scrub operation to find all poison may take 10s of seconds.  We want
 this scrub work to be done asynchronously with the rest of system
 initialization, so we move it out of line from the NFIT probing, i.e.
 acpi_nfit_add().
 
 2/ Clear poison:
 ACPI 6.1 introduces the ability to send "clear error" commands to the
 ACPI0012:00 device representing the root of an "nvdimm bus".  Similar to
 relocating a bad block on a disk, this support clears media errors in
 response to a write.
 
 3/ Persistent memory resource tracking:
 A persistent memory range may be designated as simply "reserved" by
 platform firmware in the efi/e820 memory map.  Later when the NFIT
 driver loads it discovers that the range is "Persistent Memory".  The
 NFIT bus driver inserts a resource to advertise that "persistent"
 attribute in the system resource tree for /proc/iomem and
 kernel-internal usages.
 
 4/ Miscellaneous cleanups and fixes:
 Workaround section misaligned pmem ranges when allocating a struct page
 memmap, fix handling of the read-only case in the ioctl path, and clean
 up block device major number allocation.
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Merge tag 'libnvdimm-for-4.6' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/nvdimm/nvdimm

Pull libnvdimm updates from Dan Williams:

 - Asynchronous address range scrub:

     Given the capacities of next generation persistent memory devices a
     scrub operation to find all poison may take 10s of seconds.  We
     want this scrub work to be done asynchronously with the rest of
     system initialization, so we move it out of line from the NFIT
     probing, i.e. acpi_nfit_add().

 - Clear poison:

     ACPI 6.1 introduces the ability to send "clear error" commands to
     the ACPI0012:00 device representing the root of an "nvdimm bus".
     Similar to relocating a bad block on a disk, this support clears
     media errors in response to a write.

 - Persistent memory resource tracking:

     A persistent memory range may be designated as simply "reserved" by
     platform firmware in the efi/e820 memory map.  Later when the NFIT
     driver loads it discovers that the range is "Persistent Memory".

     The NFIT bus driver inserts a resource to advertise that
     "persistent" attribute in the system resource tree for /proc/iomem
     and kernel-internal usages.

 - Miscellaneous cleanups and fixes:

     Workaround section misaligned pmem ranges when allocating a struct
     page memmap, fix handling of the read-only case in the ioctl path,
     and clean up block device major number allocation.

* tag 'libnvdimm-for-4.6' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/nvdimm/nvdimm: (26 commits)
  libnvdimm, pmem: clear poison on write
  libnvdimm, pmem: fix kmap_atomic() leak in error path
  nvdimm/btt: don't allocate unused major device number
  nvdimm/blk: don't allocate unused major device number
  pmem: don't allocate unused major device number
  ACPI: Change NFIT driver to insert new resource
  resource: Export insert_resource and remove_resource
  resource: Add remove_resource interface
  resource: Change __request_region to inherit from immediate parent
  libnvdimm, pmem: fix ia64 build, use PHYS_PFN
  nfit, libnvdimm: clear poison command support
  libnvdimm, pfn: 'resource'-address and 'size' attributes for pfn devices
  libnvdimm, pmem: adjust for section collisions with 'System RAM'
  libnvdimm, pmem: fix 'pfn' support for section-misaligned namespaces
  libnvdimm: Fix security issue with DSM IOCTL.
  libnvdimm: Clean-up access mode check.
  tools/testing/nvdimm: expand ars unit testing
  nfit: disable userspace initiated ars during scrub
  nfit: scrub and register regions in a workqueue
  nfit, libnvdimm: async region scrub workqueue
  ...
2016-03-16 17:45:56 -07:00
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bpf bpf: fix branch offset adjustment on backjumps after patching ctx expansion 2016-02-10 16:56:47 -05:00
configs
debug mm/init: Add 'rodata=off' boot cmdline parameter to disable read-only kernel mappings 2016-02-22 08:51:37 +01:00
events Merge branch 'x86-asm-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2016-03-15 09:32:27 -07:00
gcov gcov: use within_module() helper. 2015-12-04 22:46:25 +01:00
irq Power management and ACPI material for v4.6-rc1, part 1 2016-03-16 14:10:53 -07:00
livepatch livepatch: Cleanup module page permission changes 2015-12-04 22:51:07 +01:00
locking tags: Fix DEFINE_PER_CPU expansions 2016-03-15 16:55:16 -07:00
power Power management and ACPI material for v4.6-rc1, part 1 2016-03-16 14:10:53 -07:00
printk kernel: printk: specify alignment for struct printk_log 2016-01-20 17:09:18 -08:00
rcu Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew) 2016-03-16 11:51:08 -07:00
sched Power management and ACPI material for v4.6-rc1, part 1 2016-03-16 14:10:53 -07:00
time Merge branch 'timers-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2016-03-15 12:13:56 -07:00
trace Power management and ACPI material for v4.6-rc1, part 1 2016-03-16 14:10:53 -07:00
.gitignore certs: add .gitignore to stop git nagging about x509_certificate_list 2015-10-21 15:18:35 +01:00
acct.c
async.c async: export current_is_async() 2015-11-19 17:51:48 +01:00
audit.c Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jmorris/linux-security 2016-01-17 19:13:15 -08:00
audit.h security: Make inode argument of inode_getsecid non-const 2015-12-24 11:09:39 -05:00
audit_fsnotify.c wrappers for ->i_mutex access 2016-01-22 18:04:28 -05:00
audit_tree.c audit: audit_tree_match can be boolean 2015-11-04 08:23:51 -05:00
audit_watch.c wrappers for ->i_mutex access 2016-01-22 18:04:28 -05:00
auditfilter.c audit: fix comment block whitespace 2015-11-04 08:23:51 -05:00
auditsc.c security: Make inode argument of inode_getsecid non-const 2015-12-24 11:09:39 -05:00
backtracetest.c
bounds.c
capability.c
cgroup.c cgroup: make sure a parent css isn't freed before its children 2016-01-22 10:42:58 -05:00
cgroup_freezer.c cgroup: kill cgrp_ss_priv[CGROUP_CANFORK_COUNT] and friends 2015-12-03 10:24:08 -05:00
cgroup_pids.c cgroup_pids: fix a typo. 2015-12-14 14:54:37 -05:00
compat.c
configs.c
context_tracking.c context_tracking: Switch to new static_branch API 2015-11-24 09:56:43 +01:00
cpu.c cpu/hotplug: Document states better 2016-03-12 20:57:38 +01:00
cpu_pm.c kernel/cpu_pm: fix cpu_cluster_pm_exit comment 2015-09-03 02:42:20 +02:00
cpuset.c cpuset: make mm migration asynchronous 2016-01-22 10:22:46 -05:00
crash_dump.c
cred.c kmemcg: account certain kmem allocations to memcg 2016-01-14 16:00:49 -08:00
delayacct.c kmemcg: account certain kmem allocations to memcg 2016-01-14 16:00:49 -08:00
dma.c
elfcore.c
exec_domain.c
exit.c exit: remove unneeded declaration of exit_mm() 2016-01-20 17:09:18 -08:00
extable.c kernel/extable.c: remove duplicated include 2015-09-10 13:29:01 -07:00
fork.c mm: rework virtual memory accounting 2016-01-14 16:00:49 -08:00
freezer.c
futex.c futex: Replace barrier() in unqueue_me() with READ_ONCE() 2016-03-08 17:04:02 +01:00
futex_compat.c ptrace: use fsuid, fsgid, effective creds for fs access checks 2016-01-20 17:09:18 -08:00
groups.c
hung_task.c
irq_work.c treewide: Remove old email address 2015-11-23 09:44:58 +01:00
jump_label.c treewide: Remove old email address 2015-11-23 09:44:58 +01:00
kallsyms.c kallsyms: add support for relative offsets in kallsyms address table 2016-03-15 16:55:16 -07:00
kcmp.c ptrace: use fsuid, fsgid, effective creds for fs access checks 2016-01-20 17:09:18 -08:00
Kconfig.freezer
Kconfig.hz
Kconfig.locks
Kconfig.preempt
kexec.c kexec: set KEXEC_TYPE_CRASH before sanity_check_segment_list() 2016-01-20 17:09:18 -08:00
kexec_core.c kexec: Set IORESOURCE_SYSTEM_RAM for System RAM 2016-01-30 09:49:57 +01:00
kexec_file.c x86, kexec, nvdimm: Use walk_iomem_res_desc() for iomem search 2016-01-30 09:49:59 +01:00
kexec_internal.h kexec: move some memembers and definitions within the scope of CONFIG_KEXEC_FILE 2016-01-20 17:09:18 -08:00
kmod.c kmod: don't run async usermode helper as a child of kworker thread 2015-10-23 17:55:10 +09:00
kprobes.c
ksysfs.c rcu: Remove TINY_RCU bloat from pointless boot parameters 2015-12-07 16:59:37 -08:00
kthread.c kernel/kthread.c:kthread_create_on_node(): clarify documentation 2015-09-04 16:54:41 -07:00
latencytop.c sched/debug: Make schedstats a runtime tunable that is disabled by default 2016-02-09 11:54:23 +01:00
Makefile sys_membarrier(): system-wide memory barrier (generic, x86) 2015-09-11 15:21:34 -07:00
membarrier.c sys_membarrier(): system-wide memory barrier (generic, x86) 2015-09-11 15:21:34 -07:00
memremap.c mm: fix two typos in comments for to_vmem_altmap() 2016-03-15 16:55:16 -07:00
module-internal.h
module.c Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/livepatching 2016-02-18 16:34:15 -08:00
module_signing.c KEYS: Merge the type-specific data with the payload data 2015-10-21 15:18:36 +01:00
notifier.c Merge branch 'x86-asm-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2015-09-01 08:40:25 -07:00
nsproxy.c
padata.c
panic.c printk: do cond_resched() between lines while outputting to consoles 2016-01-16 11:17:25 -08:00
params.c Nothing exciting, minor tweaks and cleanups. 2015-11-09 15:53:39 -08:00
pid.c Merge branch 'sched-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2016-01-31 15:44:04 -08:00
pid_namespace.c
profile.c sched/debug: Make schedstats a runtime tunable that is disabled by default 2016-02-09 11:54:23 +01:00
ptrace.c ptrace: use fsuid, fsgid, effective creds for fs access checks 2016-01-20 17:09:18 -08:00
range.c
reboot.c kexec: split kexec_load syscall from kexec core code 2015-09-10 13:29:01 -07:00
relay.c wrappers for ->i_mutex access 2016-01-22 18:04:28 -05:00
resource.c resource: Export insert_resource and remove_resource 2016-03-09 11:07:20 -08:00
seccomp.c seccomp: always propagate NO_NEW_PRIVS on tsync 2016-01-27 07:38:25 -08:00
signal.c signals: avoid random wakeups in sigsuspend() 2016-02-05 18:10:40 -08:00
smp.c Merge branch 'smp-hotplug-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2016-03-15 13:50:29 -07:00
smpboot.c cpu/hotplug: Unpark smpboot threads from the state machine 2016-03-01 20:36:56 +01:00
smpboot.h cpu/hotplug: Create hotplug threads 2016-03-01 20:36:56 +01:00
softirq.c sched/debug: Fix preempt_disable_ip recording for preempt_disable() 2016-02-29 09:53:10 +01:00
stacktrace.c
stop_machine.c kernel/stop_machine.c: remove CONFIG_SMP dependencies 2016-01-16 11:17:24 -08:00
sys.c prctl: take mmap sem for writing to protect against others 2016-01-20 17:09:18 -08:00
sys_ni.c vfs: add copy_file_range syscall and vfs helper 2015-12-01 14:00:53 -05:00
sysctl.c sched/debug: Make schedstats a runtime tunable that is disabled by default 2016-02-09 11:54:23 +01:00
sysctl_binary.c
task_work.c task_work: remove fifo ordering guarantee 2015-09-05 13:46:58 -07:00
taskstats.c
test_kprobes.c
torture.c torture: Consolidate cond_resched_rcu_qs() into stutter_wait() 2015-10-06 11:25:01 -07:00
tracepoint.c tracepoint: Give priority to probes of tracepoints 2015-10-25 21:33:54 -04:00
tsacct.c time, acct: Drop irq save & restore from __acct_update_integrals() 2016-02-29 09:53:09 +01:00
uid16.c
up.c
user-return-notifier.c
user.c
user_namespace.c kernel/*: switch to memdup_user_nul() 2016-01-04 10:27:55 -05:00
utsname.c
utsname_sysctl.c
watchdog.c Merge branch 'for-4.5' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/wq 2016-01-11 18:53:13 -08:00
workqueue.c tags: Fix DEFINE_PER_CPU expansions 2016-03-15 16:55:16 -07:00
workqueue_internal.h