Merge branch 'for-4.7/dax' into libnvdimm-for-next

block/ioctl.c

@@ -407,35 +407,6 @@ static inline int is_unrecognized_ioctl(int ret)
 		ret == -ENOIOCTLCMD;
 }
 
-#ifdef CONFIG_FS_DAX
-bool blkdev_dax_capable(struct block_device *bdev)
-{
-	struct gendisk *disk = bdev->bd_disk;
-
-	if (!disk->fops->direct_access)
-		return false;
-
-	/*
-	 * If the partition is not aligned on a page boundary, we can't
-	 * do dax I/O to it.
-	 */
-	if ((bdev->bd_part->start_sect % (PAGE_SIZE / 512))
-			|| (bdev->bd_part->nr_sects % (PAGE_SIZE / 512)))
-		return false;
-
-	/*
-	 * If the device has known bad blocks, force all I/O through the
-	 * driver / page cache.
-	 *
-	 * TODO: support finer grained dax error handling
-	 */
-	if (disk->bb && disk->bb->count)
-		return false;
-
-	return true;
-}
-#endif
-
 static int blkdev_flushbuf(struct block_device *bdev, fmode_t mode,
 		unsigned cmd, unsigned long arg)
 {
@@ -598,9 +569,6 @@ int blkdev_ioctl(struct block_device *bdev, fmode_t mode, unsigned cmd,
 	case BLKTRACESETUP:
 	case BLKTRACETEARDOWN:
 		return blk_trace_ioctl(bdev, cmd, argp);
-	case BLKDAXGET:
-		return put_int(arg, !!(bdev->bd_inode->i_flags & S_DAX));
-		break;
 	case IOC_PR_REGISTER:
 		return blkdev_pr_register(bdev, argp);
 	case IOC_PR_RESERVE:

drivers/Kconfig

@@ -190,6 +190,8 @@ source "drivers/android/Kconfig"
 
 source "drivers/nvdimm/Kconfig"
 
+source "drivers/dax/Kconfig"
+
 source "drivers/nvmem/Kconfig"
 
 source "drivers/hwtracing/stm/Kconfig"

drivers/Makefile

@@ -66,6 +66,7 @@ obj-$(CONFIG_PARPORT)		+= parport/
 obj-$(CONFIG_NVM)		+= lightnvm/
 obj-y				+= base/ block/ misc/ mfd/ nfc/
 obj-$(CONFIG_LIBNVDIMM)		+= nvdimm/
+obj-$(CONFIG_DEV_DAX)		+= dax/
 obj-$(CONFIG_DMA_SHARED_BUFFER) += dma-buf/
 obj-$(CONFIG_NUBUS)		+= nubus/
 obj-y				+= macintosh/

drivers/dax/Kconfig

@@ -0,0 +1,26 @@
+menuconfig DEV_DAX
+	tristate "DAX: direct access to differentiated memory"
+	default m if NVDIMM_DAX
+	depends on TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE
+	help
+	  Support raw access to differentiated (persistence, bandwidth,
+	  latency...) memory via an mmap(2) capable character
+	  device.  Platform firmware or a device driver may identify a
+	  platform memory resource that is differentiated from the
+	  baseline memory pool.  Mappings of a /dev/daxX.Y device impose
+	  restrictions that make the mapping behavior deterministic.
+
+if DEV_DAX
+
+config DEV_DAX_PMEM
+	tristate "PMEM DAX: direct access to persistent memory"
+	depends on NVDIMM_DAX
+	default DEV_DAX
+	help
+	  Support raw access to persistent memory.  Note that this
+	  driver consumes memory ranges allocated and exported by the
+	  libnvdimm sub-system.
+
+	  Say Y if unsure
+
+endif

drivers/dax/Makefile

@@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
+obj-$(CONFIG_DEV_DAX) += dax.o
+obj-$(CONFIG_DEV_DAX_PMEM) += dax_pmem.o
+
+dax_pmem-y := pmem.o