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<title>linux-toradex.git/include/linux/device-mapper.h, branch v4.13-rc4</title>
<subtitle>Linux kernel for Apalis and Colibri modules</subtitle>
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<title>Merge tag 'libnvdimm-for-4.13' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/nvdimm/nvdimm</title>
<updated>2017-07-07T16:44:06+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2017-07-07T16:44:06+00:00</published>
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Pull libnvdimm updates from Dan Williams:
 "libnvdimm updates for the latest ACPI and UEFI specifications. This
  pull request also includes new 'struct dax_operations' enabling to
  undo the abuse of copy_user_nocache() for copy operations to pmem.

  The dax work originally missed 4.12 to address concerns raised by Al.

  Summary:

   - Introduce the _flushcache() family of memory copy helpers and use
     them for persistent memory write operations on x86. The
     _flushcache() semantic indicates that the cache is either bypassed
     for the copy operation (movnt) or any lines dirtied by the copy
     operation are written back (clwb, clflushopt, or clflush).

   - Extend dax_operations with -&gt;copy_from_iter() and -&gt;flush()
     operations. These operations and other infrastructure updates allow
     all persistent memory specific dax functionality to be pushed into
     libnvdimm and the pmem driver directly. It also allows dax-specific
     sysfs attributes to be linked to a host device, for example:
     /sys/block/pmem0/dax/write_cache

   - Add support for the new NVDIMM platform/firmware mechanisms
     introduced in ACPI 6.2 and UEFI 2.7. This support includes the v1.2
     namespace label format, extensions to the address-range-scrub
     command set, new error injection commands, and a new BTT
     (block-translation-table) layout. These updates support inter-OS
     and pre-OS compatibility.

   - Fix a longstanding memory corruption bug in nfit_test.

   - Make the pmem and nvdimm-region 'badblocks' sysfs files poll(2)
     capable.

   - Miscellaneous fixes and small updates across libnvdimm and the nfit
     driver.

  Acknowledgements that came after the branch was pushed: commit
  6aa734a2f38e ("libnvdimm, region, pmem: fix 'badblocks'
  sysfs_get_dirent() reference lifetime") was reviewed by Toshi Kani
  &lt;toshi.kani@hpe.com&gt;"

* tag 'libnvdimm-for-4.13' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/nvdimm/nvdimm: (42 commits)
  libnvdimm, namespace: record 'lbasize' for pmem namespaces
  acpi/nfit: Issue Start ARS to retrieve existing records
  libnvdimm: New ACPI 6.2 DSM functions
  acpi, nfit: Show bus_dsm_mask in sysfs
  libnvdimm, acpi, nfit: Add bus level dsm mask for pass thru.
  acpi, nfit: Enable DSM pass thru for root functions.
  libnvdimm: passthru functions clear to send
  libnvdimm, btt: convert some info messages to warn/err
  libnvdimm, region, pmem: fix 'badblocks' sysfs_get_dirent() reference lifetime
  libnvdimm: fix the clear-error check in nsio_rw_bytes
  libnvdimm, btt: fix btt_rw_page not returning errors
  acpi, nfit: quiet invalid block-aperture-region warnings
  libnvdimm, btt: BTT updates for UEFI 2.7 format
  acpi, nfit: constify *_attribute_group
  libnvdimm, pmem: disable dax flushing when pmem is fronting a volatile region
  libnvdimm, pmem, dax: export a cache control attribute
  dax: convert to bitmask for flags
  dax: remove default copy_from_iter fallback
  libnvdimm, nfit: enable support for volatile ranges
  libnvdimm, pmem: fix persistence warning
  ...
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Pull libnvdimm updates from Dan Williams:
 "libnvdimm updates for the latest ACPI and UEFI specifications. This
  pull request also includes new 'struct dax_operations' enabling to
  undo the abuse of copy_user_nocache() for copy operations to pmem.

  The dax work originally missed 4.12 to address concerns raised by Al.

  Summary:

   - Introduce the _flushcache() family of memory copy helpers and use
     them for persistent memory write operations on x86. The
     _flushcache() semantic indicates that the cache is either bypassed
     for the copy operation (movnt) or any lines dirtied by the copy
     operation are written back (clwb, clflushopt, or clflush).

   - Extend dax_operations with -&gt;copy_from_iter() and -&gt;flush()
     operations. These operations and other infrastructure updates allow
     all persistent memory specific dax functionality to be pushed into
     libnvdimm and the pmem driver directly. It also allows dax-specific
     sysfs attributes to be linked to a host device, for example:
     /sys/block/pmem0/dax/write_cache

   - Add support for the new NVDIMM platform/firmware mechanisms
     introduced in ACPI 6.2 and UEFI 2.7. This support includes the v1.2
     namespace label format, extensions to the address-range-scrub
     command set, new error injection commands, and a new BTT
     (block-translation-table) layout. These updates support inter-OS
     and pre-OS compatibility.

   - Fix a longstanding memory corruption bug in nfit_test.

   - Make the pmem and nvdimm-region 'badblocks' sysfs files poll(2)
     capable.

   - Miscellaneous fixes and small updates across libnvdimm and the nfit
     driver.

  Acknowledgements that came after the branch was pushed: commit
  6aa734a2f38e ("libnvdimm, region, pmem: fix 'badblocks'
  sysfs_get_dirent() reference lifetime") was reviewed by Toshi Kani
  &lt;toshi.kani@hpe.com&gt;"

* tag 'libnvdimm-for-4.13' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/nvdimm/nvdimm: (42 commits)
  libnvdimm, namespace: record 'lbasize' for pmem namespaces
  acpi/nfit: Issue Start ARS to retrieve existing records
  libnvdimm: New ACPI 6.2 DSM functions
  acpi, nfit: Show bus_dsm_mask in sysfs
  libnvdimm, acpi, nfit: Add bus level dsm mask for pass thru.
  acpi, nfit: Enable DSM pass thru for root functions.
  libnvdimm: passthru functions clear to send
  libnvdimm, btt: convert some info messages to warn/err
  libnvdimm, region, pmem: fix 'badblocks' sysfs_get_dirent() reference lifetime
  libnvdimm: fix the clear-error check in nsio_rw_bytes
  libnvdimm, btt: fix btt_rw_page not returning errors
  acpi, nfit: quiet invalid block-aperture-region warnings
  libnvdimm, btt: BTT updates for UEFI 2.7 format
  acpi, nfit: constify *_attribute_group
  libnvdimm, pmem: disable dax flushing when pmem is fronting a volatile region
  libnvdimm, pmem, dax: export a cache control attribute
  dax: convert to bitmask for flags
  dax: remove default copy_from_iter fallback
  libnvdimm, nfit: enable support for volatile ranges
  libnvdimm, pmem: fix persistence warning
  ...
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<entry>
<title>dm: introduce dm_remap_zone_report()</title>
<updated>2017-06-19T15:03:51+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Damien Le Moal</name>
<email>damien.lemoal@wdc.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-05-08T23:40:48+00:00</published>
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A target driver support zoned block devices and exposing it as such may
receive REQ_OP_ZONE_REPORT request for the user to determine the mapped
device zone configuration. To process properly such request, the target
driver may need to remap the zone descriptors provided in the report
reply. The helper function dm_remap_zone_report() does this generically
using only the target start offset and length and the start offset
within the target device.

dm_remap_zone_report() will remap the start sector of all zones
reported. If the report includes sequential zones, the write pointer
position of these zones will also be remapped.

Signed-off-by: Damien Le Moal &lt;damien.lemoal@wdc.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Hannes Reinecke &lt;hare@suse.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Bart Van Assche &lt;bart.vanassche@sandisk.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer &lt;snitzer@redhat.com&gt;
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A target driver support zoned block devices and exposing it as such may
receive REQ_OP_ZONE_REPORT request for the user to determine the mapped
device zone configuration. To process properly such request, the target
driver may need to remap the zone descriptors provided in the report
reply. The helper function dm_remap_zone_report() does this generically
using only the target start offset and length and the start offset
within the target device.

dm_remap_zone_report() will remap the start sector of all zones
reported. If the report includes sequential zones, the write pointer
position of these zones will also be remapped.

Signed-off-by: Damien Le Moal &lt;damien.lemoal@wdc.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Hannes Reinecke &lt;hare@suse.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Bart Van Assche &lt;bart.vanassche@sandisk.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer &lt;snitzer@redhat.com&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>dm table: add zoned block devices validation</title>
<updated>2017-06-19T15:03:50+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Damien Le Moal</name>
<email>damien.lemoal@wdc.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-05-08T23:40:43+00:00</published>
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1) Introduce DM_TARGET_ZONED_HM feature flag:

The target drivers currently available will not operate correctly if a
table target maps onto a host-managed zoned block device.

To avoid problems, introduce the new feature flag DM_TARGET_ZONED_HM to
allow a target to explicitly state that it supports host-managed zoned
block devices.  This feature is checked for all targets in a table if
any of the table's block devices are host-managed.

Note that as host-aware zoned block devices are backward compatible with
regular block devices, they can be used by any of the current target
types.  This new feature is thus restricted to host-managed zoned block
devices.

2) Check device area zone alignment:

If a target maps to a zoned block device, check that the device area is
aligned on zone boundaries to avoid problems with REQ_OP_ZONE_RESET
operations (resetting a partially mapped sequential zone would not be
possible).  This also facilitates the processing of zone report with
REQ_OP_ZONE_REPORT bios.

3) Check block devices zone model compatibility

When setting the DM device's queue limits, several possibilities exists
for zoned block devices:
1) The DM target driver may want to expose a different zone model
(e.g. host-managed device emulation or regular block device on top of
host-managed zoned block devices)
2) Expose the underlying zone model of the devices as-is

To allow both cases, the underlying block device zone model must be set
in the target limits in dm_set_device_limits() and the compatibility of
all devices checked similarly to the logical block size alignment.  For
this last check, introduce validate_hardware_zoned_model() to check that
all targets of a table have the same zone model and that the zone size
of the target devices are equal.

Signed-off-by: Damien Le Moal &lt;damien.lemoal@wdc.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Hannes Reinecke &lt;hare@suse.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Bart Van Assche &lt;bart.vanassche@sandisk.com&gt;
[Mike Snitzer refactored Damien's original work to simplify the code]
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer &lt;snitzer@redhat.com&gt;
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1) Introduce DM_TARGET_ZONED_HM feature flag:

The target drivers currently available will not operate correctly if a
table target maps onto a host-managed zoned block device.

To avoid problems, introduce the new feature flag DM_TARGET_ZONED_HM to
allow a target to explicitly state that it supports host-managed zoned
block devices.  This feature is checked for all targets in a table if
any of the table's block devices are host-managed.

Note that as host-aware zoned block devices are backward compatible with
regular block devices, they can be used by any of the current target
types.  This new feature is thus restricted to host-managed zoned block
devices.

2) Check device area zone alignment:

If a target maps to a zoned block device, check that the device area is
aligned on zone boundaries to avoid problems with REQ_OP_ZONE_RESET
operations (resetting a partially mapped sequential zone would not be
possible).  This also facilitates the processing of zone report with
REQ_OP_ZONE_REPORT bios.

3) Check block devices zone model compatibility

When setting the DM device's queue limits, several possibilities exists
for zoned block devices:
1) The DM target driver may want to expose a different zone model
(e.g. host-managed device emulation or regular block device on top of
host-managed zoned block devices)
2) Expose the underlying zone model of the devices as-is

To allow both cases, the underlying block device zone model must be set
in the target limits in dm_set_device_limits() and the compatibility of
all devices checked similarly to the logical block size alignment.  For
this last check, introduce validate_hardware_zoned_model() to check that
all targets of a table have the same zone model and that the zone size
of the target devices are equal.

Signed-off-by: Damien Le Moal &lt;damien.lemoal@wdc.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Hannes Reinecke &lt;hare@suse.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Bart Van Assche &lt;bart.vanassche@sandisk.com&gt;
[Mike Snitzer refactored Damien's original work to simplify the code]
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer &lt;snitzer@redhat.com&gt;
</pre>
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>dm: convert DM printk macros to pr_&lt;level&gt; macros</title>
<updated>2017-06-19T15:03:50+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Joe Perches</name>
<email>joe@perches.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-04-20T17:46:07+00:00</published>
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Using pr_&lt;level&gt; is the more common logging style.

Standardize style and use new macro DM_FMT.
Use no_printk in DMDEBUG macros when CONFIG_DM_DEBUG is not #defined.

Signed-off-by: Joe Perches &lt;joe@perches.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer &lt;snitzer@redhat.com&gt;
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Using pr_&lt;level&gt; is the more common logging style.

Standardize style and use new macro DM_FMT.
Use no_printk in DMDEBUG macros when CONFIG_DM_DEBUG is not #defined.

Signed-off-by: Joe Perches &lt;joe@perches.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer &lt;snitzer@redhat.com&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>dm: add -&gt;flush() dax operation support</title>
<updated>2017-06-15T21:34:59+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Dan Williams</name>
<email>dan.j.williams@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-05-29T20:02:52+00:00</published>
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Allow device-mapper to route flush operations to the
per-target implementation. In order for the device stacking to work we
need a dax_dev and a pgoff relative to that device. This gives each
layer of the stack the information it needs to look up the operation
pointer for the next level.

This conceptually allows for an array of mixed device drivers with
varying flush implementations.

Reviewed-by: Toshi Kani &lt;toshi.kani@hpe.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Mike Snitzer &lt;snitzer@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams &lt;dan.j.williams@intel.com&gt;
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Allow device-mapper to route flush operations to the
per-target implementation. In order for the device stacking to work we
need a dax_dev and a pgoff relative to that device. This gives each
layer of the stack the information it needs to look up the operation
pointer for the next level.

This conceptually allows for an array of mixed device drivers with
varying flush implementations.

Reviewed-by: Toshi Kani &lt;toshi.kani@hpe.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Mike Snitzer &lt;snitzer@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams &lt;dan.j.williams@intel.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>dm: add -&gt;copy_from_iter() dax operation support</title>
<updated>2017-06-09T16:22:21+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Dan Williams</name>
<email>dan.j.williams@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-05-29T19:57:56+00:00</published>
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Allow device-mapper to route copy_from_iter operations to the
per-target implementation. In order for the device stacking to work we
need a dax_dev and a pgoff relative to that device. This gives each
layer of the stack the information it needs to look up the operation
pointer for the next level.

This conceptually allows for an array of mixed device drivers with
varying copy_from_iter implementations.

Reviewed-by: Toshi Kani &lt;toshi.kani@hpe.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Mike Snitzer &lt;snitzer@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams &lt;dan.j.williams@intel.com&gt;
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Allow device-mapper to route copy_from_iter operations to the
per-target implementation. In order for the device stacking to work we
need a dax_dev and a pgoff relative to that device. This gives each
layer of the stack the information it needs to look up the operation
pointer for the next level.

This conceptually allows for an array of mixed device drivers with
varying copy_from_iter implementations.

Reviewed-by: Toshi Kani &lt;toshi.kani@hpe.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Mike Snitzer &lt;snitzer@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams &lt;dan.j.williams@intel.com&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>block: switch bios to blk_status_t</title>
<updated>2017-06-09T15:27:32+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Christoph Hellwig</name>
<email>hch@lst.de</email>
</author>
<published>2017-06-03T07:38:06+00:00</published>
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Replace bi_error with a new bi_status to allow for a clear conversion.
Note that device mapper overloaded bi_error with a private value, which
we'll have to keep arround at least for now and thus propagate to a
proper blk_status_t value.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@fb.com&gt;
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Replace bi_error with a new bi_status to allow for a clear conversion.
Note that device mapper overloaded bi_error with a private value, which
we'll have to keep arround at least for now and thus propagate to a
proper blk_status_t value.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@fb.com&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>block: introduce new block status code type</title>
<updated>2017-06-09T15:27:32+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Christoph Hellwig</name>
<email>hch@lst.de</email>
</author>
<published>2017-06-03T07:38:04+00:00</published>
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Currently we use nornal Linux errno values in the block layer, and while
we accept any error a few have overloaded magic meanings.  This patch
instead introduces a new  blk_status_t value that holds block layer specific
status codes and explicitly explains their meaning.  Helpers to convert from
and to the previous special meanings are provided for now, but I suspect
we want to get rid of them in the long run - those drivers that have a
errno input (e.g. networking) usually get errnos that don't know about
the special block layer overloads, and similarly returning them to userspace
will usually return somethings that strictly speaking isn't correct
for file system operations, but that's left as an exercise for later.

For now the set of errors is a very limited set that closely corresponds
to the previous overloaded errno values, but there is some low hanging
fruite to improve it.

blk_status_t (ab)uses the sparse __bitwise annotations to allow for sparse
typechecking, so that we can easily catch places passing the wrong values.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@fb.com&gt;
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Currently we use nornal Linux errno values in the block layer, and while
we accept any error a few have overloaded magic meanings.  This patch
instead introduces a new  blk_status_t value that holds block layer specific
status codes and explicitly explains their meaning.  Helpers to convert from
and to the previous special meanings are provided for now, but I suspect
we want to get rid of them in the long run - those drivers that have a
errno input (e.g. networking) usually get errnos that don't know about
the special block layer overloads, and similarly returning them to userspace
will usually return somethings that strictly speaking isn't correct
for file system operations, but that's left as an exercise for later.

For now the set of errors is a very limited set that closely corresponds
to the previous overloaded errno values, but there is some low hanging
fruite to improve it.

blk_status_t (ab)uses the sparse __bitwise annotations to allow for sparse
typechecking, so that we can easily catch places passing the wrong values.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@fb.com&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>dm: change -&gt;end_io calling convention</title>
<updated>2017-06-09T15:27:32+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Christoph Hellwig</name>
<email>hch@lst.de</email>
</author>
<published>2017-06-03T07:38:03+00:00</published>
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Turn the error paramter into a pointer so that target drivers can change
the value, and make sure only DM_ENDIO_* values are returned from the
methods.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer &lt;snitzer@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@fb.com&gt;
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Turn the error paramter into a pointer so that target drivers can change
the value, and make sure only DM_ENDIO_* values are returned from the
methods.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer &lt;snitzer@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@fb.com&gt;
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<title>Merge tag 'libnvdimm-for-4.12' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/nvdimm/nvdimm</title>
<updated>2017-05-06T01:49:20+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
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<published>2017-05-06T01:49:20+00:00</published>
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Pull libnvdimm updates from Dan Williams:
 "The bulk of this has been in multiple -next releases. There were a few
  late breaking fixes and small features that got added in the last
  couple days, but the whole set has received a build success
  notification from the kbuild robot.

  Change summary:

   - Region media error reporting: A libnvdimm region device is the
     parent to one or more namespaces. To date, media errors have been
     reported via the "badblocks" attribute attached to pmem block
     devices for namespaces in "raw" or "memory" mode. Given that
     namespaces can be in "device-dax" or "btt-sector" mode this new
     interface reports media errors generically, i.e. independent of
     namespace modes or state.

     This subsequently allows userspace tooling to craft "ACPI 6.1
     Section 9.20.7.6 Function Index 4 - Clear Uncorrectable Error"
     requests and submit them via the ioctl path for NVDIMM root bus
     devices.

   - Introduce 'struct dax_device' and 'struct dax_operations': Prompted
     by a request from Linus and feedback from Christoph this allows for
     dax capable drivers to publish their own custom dax operations.
     This fixes the broken assumption that all dax operations are
     related to a persistent memory device, and makes it easier for
     other architectures and platforms to add customized persistent
     memory support.

   - 'libnvdimm' core updates: A new "deep_flush" sysfs attribute is
     available for storage appliance applications to manually trigger
     memory controllers to drain write-pending buffers that would
     otherwise be flushed automatically by the platform ADR
     (asynchronous-DRAM-refresh) mechanism at a power loss event.
     Support for "locked" DIMMs is included to prevent namespaces from
     surfacing when the namespace label data area is locked. Finally,
     fixes for various reported deadlocks and crashes, also tagged for
     -stable.

   - ACPI / nfit driver updates: General updates of the nfit driver to
     add DSM command overrides, ACPI 6.1 health state flags support, DSM
     payload debug available by default, and various fixes.

  Acknowledgements that came after the branch was pushed:

   - commmit 565851c972b5 "device-dax: fix sysfs attribute deadlock":
     Tested-by: Yi Zhang &lt;yizhan@redhat.com&gt;

   - commit 23f498448362 "libnvdimm: rework region badblocks clearing"
     Tested-by: Toshi Kani &lt;toshi.kani@hpe.com&gt;"

* tag 'libnvdimm-for-4.12' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/nvdimm/nvdimm: (52 commits)
  libnvdimm, pfn: fix 'npfns' vs section alignment
  libnvdimm: handle locked label storage areas
  libnvdimm: convert NDD_ flags to use bitops, introduce NDD_LOCKED
  brd: fix uninitialized use of brd-&gt;dax_dev
  block, dax: use correct format string in bdev_dax_supported
  device-dax: fix sysfs attribute deadlock
  libnvdimm: restore "libnvdimm: band aid btt vs clear poison locking"
  libnvdimm: fix nvdimm_bus_lock() vs device_lock() ordering
  libnvdimm: rework region badblocks clearing
  acpi, nfit: kill ACPI_NFIT_DEBUG
  libnvdimm: fix clear length of nvdimm_forget_poison()
  libnvdimm, pmem: fix a NULL pointer BUG in nd_pmem_notify
  libnvdimm, region: sysfs trigger for nvdimm_flush()
  libnvdimm: fix phys_addr for nvdimm_clear_poison
  x86, dax, pmem: remove indirection around memcpy_from_pmem()
  block: remove block_device_operations -&gt;direct_access()
  block, dax: convert bdev_dax_supported() to dax_direct_access()
  filesystem-dax: convert to dax_direct_access()
  Revert "block: use DAX for partition table reads"
  ext2, ext4, xfs: retrieve dax_device for iomap operations
  ...
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Pull libnvdimm updates from Dan Williams:
 "The bulk of this has been in multiple -next releases. There were a few
  late breaking fixes and small features that got added in the last
  couple days, but the whole set has received a build success
  notification from the kbuild robot.

  Change summary:

   - Region media error reporting: A libnvdimm region device is the
     parent to one or more namespaces. To date, media errors have been
     reported via the "badblocks" attribute attached to pmem block
     devices for namespaces in "raw" or "memory" mode. Given that
     namespaces can be in "device-dax" or "btt-sector" mode this new
     interface reports media errors generically, i.e. independent of
     namespace modes or state.

     This subsequently allows userspace tooling to craft "ACPI 6.1
     Section 9.20.7.6 Function Index 4 - Clear Uncorrectable Error"
     requests and submit them via the ioctl path for NVDIMM root bus
     devices.

   - Introduce 'struct dax_device' and 'struct dax_operations': Prompted
     by a request from Linus and feedback from Christoph this allows for
     dax capable drivers to publish their own custom dax operations.
     This fixes the broken assumption that all dax operations are
     related to a persistent memory device, and makes it easier for
     other architectures and platforms to add customized persistent
     memory support.

   - 'libnvdimm' core updates: A new "deep_flush" sysfs attribute is
     available for storage appliance applications to manually trigger
     memory controllers to drain write-pending buffers that would
     otherwise be flushed automatically by the platform ADR
     (asynchronous-DRAM-refresh) mechanism at a power loss event.
     Support for "locked" DIMMs is included to prevent namespaces from
     surfacing when the namespace label data area is locked. Finally,
     fixes for various reported deadlocks and crashes, also tagged for
     -stable.

   - ACPI / nfit driver updates: General updates of the nfit driver to
     add DSM command overrides, ACPI 6.1 health state flags support, DSM
     payload debug available by default, and various fixes.

  Acknowledgements that came after the branch was pushed:

   - commmit 565851c972b5 "device-dax: fix sysfs attribute deadlock":
     Tested-by: Yi Zhang &lt;yizhan@redhat.com&gt;

   - commit 23f498448362 "libnvdimm: rework region badblocks clearing"
     Tested-by: Toshi Kani &lt;toshi.kani@hpe.com&gt;"

* tag 'libnvdimm-for-4.12' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/nvdimm/nvdimm: (52 commits)
  libnvdimm, pfn: fix 'npfns' vs section alignment
  libnvdimm: handle locked label storage areas
  libnvdimm: convert NDD_ flags to use bitops, introduce NDD_LOCKED
  brd: fix uninitialized use of brd-&gt;dax_dev
  block, dax: use correct format string in bdev_dax_supported
  device-dax: fix sysfs attribute deadlock
  libnvdimm: restore "libnvdimm: band aid btt vs clear poison locking"
  libnvdimm: fix nvdimm_bus_lock() vs device_lock() ordering
  libnvdimm: rework region badblocks clearing
  acpi, nfit: kill ACPI_NFIT_DEBUG
  libnvdimm: fix clear length of nvdimm_forget_poison()
  libnvdimm, pmem: fix a NULL pointer BUG in nd_pmem_notify
  libnvdimm, region: sysfs trigger for nvdimm_flush()
  libnvdimm: fix phys_addr for nvdimm_clear_poison
  x86, dax, pmem: remove indirection around memcpy_from_pmem()
  block: remove block_device_operations -&gt;direct_access()
  block, dax: convert bdev_dax_supported() to dax_direct_access()
  filesystem-dax: convert to dax_direct_access()
  Revert "block: use DAX for partition table reads"
  ext2, ext4, xfs: retrieve dax_device for iomap operations
  ...
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