libnvdimm, dax: introduce device-dax infrastructure

Device DAX is the device-centric analogue of Filesystem DAX
(CONFIG_FS_DAX). It allows persistent memory ranges to be allocated and
mapped withou

libnvdimm, dax: introduce device-dax infrastructure

Device DAX is the device-centric analogue of Filesystem DAX
(CONFIG_FS_DAX). It allows persistent memory ranges to be allocated and
mapped without need of an intervening file system. This initial
infrastructure arranges for a libnvdimm pfn-device to be represented as
a different device-type so that it can be attached to a driver other
than the pmem driver.

Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>

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Merge remote-tracking branch 'linusw-gpio/for-next' into devm_gpiochip

Base for demv_gpiochip_add_data() and devm_gpiochip_remove().

Merge branch 'next' into for-linus

Prepare first round of input updates for 4.3 merge window.

Merge branch 'for-4.3-fixes' into for-4.4

Merge branch 'x86/urgent' into core/efi, to pick up a pending EFI fix

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>

Merge remote-tracking branch 'net-next/master' into mac80211-next

Merge net-next to get some driver changes that patches depend
on (in order to avoid conflicts).

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johan

Merge remote-tracking branch 'net-next/master' into mac80211-next

Merge net-next to get some driver changes that patches depend
on (in order to avoid conflicts).

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>

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Merge remote-tracking branch 'asoc/fix/rt5645' into asoc-fix-rt5645

Merge branch 'for-4.3-rc/ti-clk-fixes' of https://github.com/t-kristo/linux-pm into clk-fixes

Pull fixes from Tero Kristo:

"A few TI clock driver fixes to pull against 4.3-rc"

* 'for-4.3-rc/ti-clk

Merge branch 'for-4.3-rc/ti-clk-fixes' of https://github.com/t-kristo/linux-pm into clk-fixes

Pull fixes from Tero Kristo:

"A few TI clock driver fixes to pull against 4.3-rc"

* 'for-4.3-rc/ti-clk-fixes' of https://github.com/t-kristo/linux-pm: (3 commits)
clk: ti: dflt: fix enable_reg validity check
clk: ti: fix dual-registration of uart4_ick
clk: ti: clk-7xx: Remove hardwired ABE clock configuration

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Merge remote-tracking branch 'airlied/drm-next' into drm-intel-next

Backmerge to catch up with 4.3. slightly more involved conflict in the
irq code, but nothing beyond adjacent changes.

Signed-off-

Merge remote-tracking branch 'airlied/drm-next' into drm-intel-next

Backmerge to catch up with 4.3. slightly more involved conflict in the
irq code, but nothing beyond adjacent changes.

Signed-off-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@intel.com>

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Merge tag 'v4.3-rc3' into next

Merge with Linux 4.3-rc3 to bring in MFD DA9062 changes to merge DA9062
OnKey driver.

Merge tag 'v4.3-rc2' into k.o/for-4.3-v1

Linux 4.3-rc2

Merge tag 'v4.3-rc2' into topic/drm-misc

Backmerge Linux 4.3-rc2 because of conflicts in the dp helper code
between bugfixes and new code. Just adjacent lines really.

On top of that there's a silen

Merge tag 'v4.3-rc2' into topic/drm-misc

Backmerge Linux 4.3-rc2 because of conflicts in the dp helper code
between bugfixes and new code. Just adjacent lines really.

On top of that there's a silent conflict in the new fsl-dcu driver
merged into 4.3 and

commit 844f9111f6f54f88eb2f0fac121b82ce77193866
Author: Maarten Lankhorst <maarten.lankhorst@linux.intel.com>
Date: Wed Sep 2 10:42:40 2015 +0200

drm/atomic: Make prepare_fb/cleanup_fb only take state, v3.

which Thierry Reding spotted and provided a fixup for.

Signed-off-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@intel.com>

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Merge branch 'for-linus' into for-next

Merge tag 'v4.3-rc1' into spi-fix-doc

Linux 4.3-rc1

Merge branch 'fixes-rc1' into omap-for-v4.3/fixes

Merge tag 'v4.3-rc1' into MTD -next development

Merge tag 'v4.3-rc1' into patchwork

Linux 4.3-rc1

* tag 'v4.3-rc1': (11838 commits)
Linux 4.3-rc1
blk: rq_data_dir() should not return a boolean
writeback: plug writeback in wb_writeback() an

Merge tag 'v4.3-rc1' into patchwork

Linux 4.3-rc1

* tag 'v4.3-rc1': (11838 commits)
Linux 4.3-rc1
blk: rq_data_dir() should not return a boolean
writeback: plug writeback in wb_writeback() and writeback_inodes_wb()
thermal: fix intel PCH thermal driver mismerge
ARCv2: [axs103_smp] Reduce clk for SMP FPGA configs
revert "ocfs2/dlm: use list_for_each_entry instead of list_for_each"
mm/early_ioremap: add explicit #include of asm/early_ioremap.h
fs/seq_file: convert int seq_vprint/seq_printf/etc... returns to void
selftests: enhance membarrier syscall test
selftests: add membarrier syscall test
sys_membarrier(): system-wide memory barrier (generic, x86)
MODSIGN: fix a compilation warning in extract-cert
Revert "writeback: plug writeback at a high level"
scsi_dh: fix randconfig build error
target: use stringify.h instead of own definition
target/user: Fix UFLAG_UNKNOWN_OP handling
target: Remove no-op conditional
target/user: Remove unused variable
target: Fix max_cmd_sn increment w/o cmdsn mutex regressions
target: Attach EXTENDED_COPY local I/O descriptors to xcopy_pt_sess
...

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Merge tag 'v4.3-rc1' into perf/core, to refresh the tree

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>

Merge tag 'v4.3-rc1' into locking/core, to refresh the tree

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>

Merge tag 'v4.3-rc1' into sched/core, to refresh the branch

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>

Merge tag 'libnvdimm-for-4.3' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/nvdimm/nvdimm

Pull libnvdimm updates from Dan Williams:
"This update has successfully completed a 0day-kbuild run and

Merge tag 'libnvdimm-for-4.3' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/nvdimm/nvdimm

Pull libnvdimm updates from Dan Williams:
"This update has successfully completed a 0day-kbuild run and has
appeared in a linux-next release. The changes outside of the typical
drivers/nvdimm/ and drivers/acpi/nfit.[ch] paths are related to the
removal of IORESOURCE_CACHEABLE, the introduction of memremap(), and
the introduction of ZONE_DEVICE + devm_memremap_pages().

Summary:

- Introduce ZONE_DEVICE and devm_memremap_pages() as a generic
mechanism for adding device-driver-discovered memory regions to the
kernel's direct map.

This facility is used by the pmem driver to enable pfn_to_page()
operations on the page frames returned by DAX ('direct_access' in
'struct block_device_operations').

For now, the 'memmap' allocation for these "device" pages comes
from "System RAM". Support for allocating the memmap from device
memory will arrive in a later kernel.

- Introduce memremap() to replace usages of ioremap_cache() and
ioremap_wt(). memremap() drops the __iomem annotation for these
mappings to memory that do not have i/o side effects. The
replacement of ioremap_cache() with memremap() is limited to the
pmem driver to ease merging the api change in v4.3.

Completion of the conversion is targeted for v4.4.

- Similar to the usage of memcpy_to_pmem() + wmb_pmem() in the pmem
driver, update the VFS DAX implementation and PMEM api to provide
persistence guarantees for kernel operations on a DAX mapping.

- Convert the ACPI NFIT 'BLK' driver to map the block apertures as
cacheable to improve performance.

- Miscellaneous updates and fixes to libnvdimm including support for
issuing "address range scrub" commands, clarifying the optimal
'sector size' of pmem devices, a clarification of the usage of the
ACPI '_STA' (status) property for DIMM devices, and other minor
fixes"

* tag 'libnvdimm-for-4.3' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/nvdimm/nvdimm: (34 commits)
libnvdimm, pmem: direct map legacy pmem by default
libnvdimm, pmem: 'struct page' for pmem
libnvdimm, pfn: 'struct page' provider infrastructure
x86, pmem: clarify that ARCH_HAS_PMEM_API implies PMEM mapped WB
add devm_memremap_pages
mm: ZONE_DEVICE for "device memory"
mm: move __phys_to_pfn and __pfn_to_phys to asm/generic/memory_model.h
dax: drop size parameter to ->direct_access()
nd_blk: change aperture mapping from WC to WB
nvdimm: change to use generic kvfree()
pmem, dax: have direct_access use __pmem annotation
dax: update I/O path to do proper PMEM flushing
pmem: add copy_from_iter_pmem() and clear_pmem()
pmem, x86: clean up conditional pmem includes
pmem: remove layer when calling arch_has_wmb_pmem()
pmem, x86: move x86 PMEM API to new pmem.h header
libnvdimm, e820: make CONFIG_X86_PMEM_LEGACY a tristate option
pmem: switch to devm_ allocations
devres: add devm_memremap
libnvdimm, btt: write and validate parent_uuid
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Merge branch 'next' into for-linus

Prepare first round of input updates for 4.3 merge window.

Merge branch 'for-4.3/gembird' into for-linus

libnvdimm, pfn: 'struct page' provider infrastructure

Implement the base infrastructure for libnvdimm PFN devices. Similar to
BTT devices they take a namespace as a backing device and layer
function

libnvdimm, pfn: 'struct page' provider infrastructure

Implement the base infrastructure for libnvdimm PFN devices. Similar to
BTT devices they take a namespace as a backing device and layer
functionality on top. In this case the functionality is reserving space
for an array of 'struct page' entries to be handed out through
pfn_to_page(). For now this is just the basic libnvdimm-device-model for
configuring the base PFN device.

As the namespace claiming mechanism for PFN devices is mostly identical
to BTT devices drivers/nvdimm/claim.c is created to house the common
bits.

Cc: Ross Zwisler <ross.zwisler@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>

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Merge tag 'v4.2-rc8' into x86/mm, before applying new changes

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>