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| author | Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com> | 2015-11-30 10:20:29 -0800 |
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| committer | Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com> | 2016-01-09 06:30:49 -0800 |
| commit | 5a023cdba50c5f5f2bc351783b3131699deb3937 (patch) | |
| tree | bae047e7bf8fb28e48563b33afc2881c226f4e31 /block/genhd.c | |
| parent | 4ebb16ca9a06a54cdb2e7f2ce1e506fa4d432445 (diff) | |
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block: enable dax for raw block devices
If an application wants exclusive access to all of the persistent memory
provided by an NVDIMM namespace it can use this raw-block-dax facility
to forgo establishing a filesystem. This capability is targeted
primarily to hypervisors wanting to provision persistent memory for
guests. It can be disabled / enabled dynamically via the new BLKDAXSET
ioctl.
Cc: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Ross Zwisler <ross.zwisler@linux.intel.com>
Reported-by: kbuild test robot <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
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