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<title>linux-stable.git/drivers/acpi/Makefile, branch linux-4.5.y</title>
<subtitle>Linux kernel stable tree</subtitle>
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<entry>
<title>Merge branches 'acpi-pci', 'acpi-irq' and 'acpi-assorted'</title>
<updated>2016-01-12T00:10:19+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Rafael J. Wysocki</name>
<email>rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2016-01-12T00:10:19+00:00</published>
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* acpi-pci:
  ACPI, PCI, irq: remove redundant check for null string pointer
  ACPI / PCI: Simplify acpi_penalize_isa_irq()
  ACPI, PCI, irq: remove interrupt number restriction
  ACPI, PCI, irq: remove interrupt count restriction

* acpi-irq:
  ACPI / spi: attach GPIO IRQ from ACPI description to SPI device
  ACPI / gpio: Add irq_type when a GPIO is used as an interrupt
  ACPI: Rename acpi_gsi_get_irq_type to acpi_dev_get_irq_type and export symbol

* acpi-assorted:
  ACPI / SBS: fix inconsistent indenting inside if statement
  ACPI: Fix build errors due objects compiled unconditionally
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* acpi-pci:
  ACPI, PCI, irq: remove redundant check for null string pointer
  ACPI / PCI: Simplify acpi_penalize_isa_irq()
  ACPI, PCI, irq: remove interrupt number restriction
  ACPI, PCI, irq: remove interrupt count restriction

* acpi-irq:
  ACPI / spi: attach GPIO IRQ from ACPI description to SPI device
  ACPI / gpio: Add irq_type when a GPIO is used as an interrupt
  ACPI: Rename acpi_gsi_get_irq_type to acpi_dev_get_irq_type and export symbol

* acpi-assorted:
  ACPI / SBS: fix inconsistent indenting inside if statement
  ACPI: Fix build errors due objects compiled unconditionally
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<entry>
<title>ACPI / debugger: Add module support for ACPI debugger</title>
<updated>2015-12-14T23:17:44+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Lv Zheng</name>
<email>lv.zheng@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2015-12-03T02:43:14+00:00</published>
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This patch converts AML debugger into a loadable module.

Note that, it implements driver unloading at the level dependent on the
module reference count. Which means if ACPI debugger is being used by a
userspace program, "rmmod acpi_dbg" should result in failure.

Signed-off-by: Lv Zheng &lt;lv.zheng@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki &lt;rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com&gt;
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This patch converts AML debugger into a loadable module.

Note that, it implements driver unloading at the level dependent on the
module reference count. Which means if ACPI debugger is being used by a
userspace program, "rmmod acpi_dbg" should result in failure.

Signed-off-by: Lv Zheng &lt;lv.zheng@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki &lt;rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>ACPI / debugger: Add IO interface to access debugger functionalities</title>
<updated>2015-12-14T23:17:44+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Lv Zheng</name>
<email>lv.zheng@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2015-12-03T02:43:00+00:00</published>
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This patch adds /sys/kernel/debug/acpi/acpidbg, which can be used by
userspace programs to access ACPICA debugger functionalities.

Known issue:
1. IO flush support
   acpi_os_notify_command_complete() and acpi_os_wait_command_ready() can
   be used by acpi_dbg module to implement .flush() filesystem operation.
   While this patch doesn't go that far. It then becomes userspace tool's
   duty now to flush old commands before executing new batch mode commands.

Signed-off-by: Lv Zheng &lt;lv.zheng@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki &lt;rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com&gt;
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This patch adds /sys/kernel/debug/acpi/acpidbg, which can be used by
userspace programs to access ACPICA debugger functionalities.

Known issue:
1. IO flush support
   acpi_os_notify_command_complete() and acpi_os_wait_command_ready() can
   be used by acpi_dbg module to implement .flush() filesystem operation.
   While this patch doesn't go that far. It then becomes userspace tool's
   duty now to flush old commands before executing new batch mode commands.

Signed-off-by: Lv Zheng &lt;lv.zheng@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki &lt;rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>ACPI: Fix build errors due objects compiled unconditionally</title>
<updated>2015-12-09T22:40:41+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Javier Martinez Canillas</name>
<email>javier@osg.samsung.com</email>
</author>
<published>2015-11-20T17:35:02+00:00</published>
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If the CONFIG_ACPI Kconfig symbol is not enabled and a partial build is
attempted, compile errors will happen due missing types and identifiers.

This can be easily reproduced with the following commands:

$ export CROSS_COMPILE="arm-linux-gnueabihf-" ARCH=arm
$ make allmodconfig
$ make M=drivers/acpi/
  CC      drivers/acpi//tables.o
drivers/acpi//tables.c:235:3: warning: 'struct acpi_subtable_proc' declared inside parameter list
   unsigned int max_entries)
   ^
drivers/acpi//tables.c:235:3: warning: its scope is only this definition or declaration, which is probably not what you want
drivers/acpi//tables.c: In function 'acpi_parse_entries_array':
drivers/acpi//tables.c:269:4: error: invalid use of undefined type 'struct acpi_subtable_proc'
...
scripts/Makefile.build:258: recipe for target 'drivers/acpi//tables.o' failed
make[1]: *** [drivers/acpi//tables.o] Error 1
Makefile:1401: recipe for target '_module_drivers/acpi/' failed
make: *** [_module_drivers/acpi/] Error 2

This is because objects are tried to be built unconditionally even when
CONFIG_ACPI is not enabled. This is usually not a problem since arches'
Kconfig sources drivers/acpi/Kconfig directly and also selects ACPI but
the Makefile should conditionally build the objects as well to prevent
these build errors.

Signed-off-by: Javier Martinez Canillas &lt;javier@osg.samsung.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki &lt;rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com&gt;
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If the CONFIG_ACPI Kconfig symbol is not enabled and a partial build is
attempted, compile errors will happen due missing types and identifiers.

This can be easily reproduced with the following commands:

$ export CROSS_COMPILE="arm-linux-gnueabihf-" ARCH=arm
$ make allmodconfig
$ make M=drivers/acpi/
  CC      drivers/acpi//tables.o
drivers/acpi//tables.c:235:3: warning: 'struct acpi_subtable_proc' declared inside parameter list
   unsigned int max_entries)
   ^
drivers/acpi//tables.c:235:3: warning: its scope is only this definition or declaration, which is probably not what you want
drivers/acpi//tables.c: In function 'acpi_parse_entries_array':
drivers/acpi//tables.c:269:4: error: invalid use of undefined type 'struct acpi_subtable_proc'
...
scripts/Makefile.build:258: recipe for target 'drivers/acpi//tables.o' failed
make[1]: *** [drivers/acpi//tables.o] Error 1
Makefile:1401: recipe for target '_module_drivers/acpi/' failed
make: *** [_module_drivers/acpi/] Error 2

This is because objects are tried to be built unconditionally even when
CONFIG_ACPI is not enabled. This is usually not a problem since arches'
Kconfig sources drivers/acpi/Kconfig directly and also selects ACPI but
the Makefile should conditionally build the objects as well to prevent
these build errors.

Signed-off-by: Javier Martinez Canillas &lt;javier@osg.samsung.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki &lt;rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>ACPI: Introduce CPU performance controls using CPPC</title>
<updated>2015-10-12T20:49:55+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Ashwin Chaugule</name>
<email>ashwin.chaugule@linaro.org</email>
</author>
<published>2015-10-02T14:01:19+00:00</published>
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CPPC stands for Collaborative Processor Performance Controls
and is defined in the ACPI v5.0+ spec. It describes CPU
performance controls on an abstract and continuous scale
allowing the platform (e.g. remote power processor) to flexibly
optimize CPU performance with its knowledge of power budgets
and other architecture specific knowledge.

This patch adds a shim which exports commonly used functions
to get and set CPPC specific controls for each CPU. This enables
CPUFreq drivers to gather per CPU performance data and use
with exisiting governors or even allows for customized governors
which are implemented inside CPUFreq drivers.

Signed-off-by: Ashwin Chaugule &lt;ashwin.chaugule@linaro.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Al Stone &lt;al.stone@linaro.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki &lt;rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com&gt;
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CPPC stands for Collaborative Processor Performance Controls
and is defined in the ACPI v5.0+ spec. It describes CPU
performance controls on an abstract and continuous scale
allowing the platform (e.g. remote power processor) to flexibly
optimize CPU performance with its knowledge of power budgets
and other architecture specific knowledge.

This patch adds a shim which exports commonly used functions
to get and set CPPC specific controls for each CPU. This enables
CPUFreq drivers to gather per CPU performance data and use
with exisiting governors or even allows for customized governors
which are implemented inside CPUFreq drivers.

Signed-off-by: Ashwin Chaugule &lt;ashwin.chaugule@linaro.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Al Stone &lt;al.stone@linaro.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki &lt;rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge branches 'acpi-scan', 'acpi-processor' and 'acpi-assorted'</title>
<updated>2015-09-01T01:38:22+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Rafael J. Wysocki</name>
<email>rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2015-09-01T01:38:22+00:00</published>
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* acpi-scan:
  ACPI / bus: Move ACPI bus type registration
  ACPI / scan: Move bus operations and notification routines to bus.c
  ACPI / scan: Move device matching code to bus.c
  ACPI / scan: Move sysfs-related device code to a separate file

* acpi-processor:
  PCC: Disable compilation by default
  ACPI: Decouple ACPI idle and ACPI processor drivers
  ACPI: Split out ACPI PSS from ACPI Processor driver
  PCC: Initialize PCC Mailbox earlier at boot
  ACPI / processor: remove leftover __refdata annotations

* acpi-assorted:
  ACPI: fix acpi_debugfs_init prototype
  ACPI: Remove FSF mailing addresses
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* acpi-scan:
  ACPI / bus: Move ACPI bus type registration
  ACPI / scan: Move bus operations and notification routines to bus.c
  ACPI / scan: Move device matching code to bus.c
  ACPI / scan: Move sysfs-related device code to a separate file

* acpi-processor:
  PCC: Disable compilation by default
  ACPI: Decouple ACPI idle and ACPI processor drivers
  ACPI: Split out ACPI PSS from ACPI Processor driver
  PCC: Initialize PCC Mailbox earlier at boot
  ACPI / processor: remove leftover __refdata annotations

* acpi-assorted:
  ACPI: fix acpi_debugfs_init prototype
  ACPI: Remove FSF mailing addresses
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<entry>
<title>ACPI: Decouple ACPI idle and ACPI processor drivers</title>
<updated>2015-08-25T01:25:47+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Ashwin Chaugule</name>
<email>ashwin.chaugule@linaro.org</email>
</author>
<published>2015-08-05T13:40:26+00:00</published>
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This patch introduces a new Kconfig symbol, ACPI_PROCESSOR_IDLE,
which is auto selected by architectures which support the ACPI
based C states for CPU Idle management.

The processor_idle driver in its present form contains declarations
specific to X86 and IA64. Since there are no reasonable defaults
for other architectures e.g. ARM64, the driver is selected only for
X86 or IA64.

This helps in decoupling the ACPI processor_driver from the ACPI
processor_idle driver which is useful for the upcoming alternative
patchwork for controlling CPU Performance (CPPC) and CPU Idle (LPI).

Signed-off-by: Ashwin Chaugule &lt;ashwin.chaugule@linaro.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki &lt;rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com&gt;
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This patch introduces a new Kconfig symbol, ACPI_PROCESSOR_IDLE,
which is auto selected by architectures which support the ACPI
based C states for CPU Idle management.

The processor_idle driver in its present form contains declarations
specific to X86 and IA64. Since there are no reasonable defaults
for other architectures e.g. ARM64, the driver is selected only for
X86 or IA64.

This helps in decoupling the ACPI processor_driver from the ACPI
processor_idle driver which is useful for the upcoming alternative
patchwork for controlling CPU Performance (CPPC) and CPU Idle (LPI).

Signed-off-by: Ashwin Chaugule &lt;ashwin.chaugule@linaro.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki &lt;rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>ACPI: Split out ACPI PSS from ACPI Processor driver</title>
<updated>2015-08-25T01:25:47+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Ashwin Chaugule</name>
<email>ashwin.chaugule@linaro.org</email>
</author>
<published>2015-08-05T13:40:25+00:00</published>
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The ACPI processor driver is currently tied too closely
to the ACPI P-states (PSS) and other related constructs
for controlling CPU performance.

The newer ACPI specification (v5.1 onwards) introduces
alternative methods to PSS. These new mechanisms are
described within each ACPI Processor object and so they
need to be scanned whenever a new Processor object is detected.
This patch introduces a new Kconfig symbol to allow for
finer configurability among the two options for controlling
performance states. There is no change in functionality and
the option is auto-selected by the architectures which support it.

A future commit will introduce support for CPPC: A newer method of
controlling CPU performance. The OS is not expected to support
CPPC and PSS at the same time, so the Kconfig option lets us make
the two mutually exclusive at compile time.

Signed-off-by: Ashwin Chaugule &lt;ashwin.chaugule@linaro.org&gt;
[ rjw: Changelog ]
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki &lt;rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com&gt;
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The ACPI processor driver is currently tied too closely
to the ACPI P-states (PSS) and other related constructs
for controlling CPU performance.

The newer ACPI specification (v5.1 onwards) introduces
alternative methods to PSS. These new mechanisms are
described within each ACPI Processor object and so they
need to be scanned whenever a new Processor object is detected.
This patch introduces a new Kconfig symbol to allow for
finer configurability among the two options for controlling
performance states. There is no change in functionality and
the option is auto-selected by the architectures which support it.

A future commit will introduce support for CPPC: A newer method of
controlling CPU performance. The OS is not expected to support
CPPC and PSS at the same time, so the Kconfig option lets us make
the two mutually exclusive at compile time.

Signed-off-by: Ashwin Chaugule &lt;ashwin.chaugule@linaro.org&gt;
[ rjw: Changelog ]
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki &lt;rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com&gt;
</pre>
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>ACPI / scan: Move sysfs-related device code to a separate file</title>
<updated>2015-07-17T20:53:43+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Rafael J. Wysocki</name>
<email>rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2015-07-17T20:53:43+00:00</published>
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To reduce the size of scan.c and improve the readability of it, move
all code related to device sysfs, modalias creation etc. to a new
file called device_sysfs.c.

Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki &lt;rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com&gt;
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To reduce the size of scan.c and improve the readability of it, move
all code related to device sysfs, modalias creation etc. to a new
file called device_sysfs.c.

Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki &lt;rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com&gt;
</pre>
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'libnvdimm-for-4.2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/djbw/nvdimm</title>
<updated>2015-06-29T17:34:42+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2015-06-29T17:34:42+00:00</published>
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Pull libnvdimm subsystem from Dan Williams:
 "The libnvdimm sub-system introduces, in addition to the
  libnvdimm-core, 4 drivers / enabling modules:

  NFIT:
    Instantiates an "nvdimm bus" with the core and registers memory
    devices (NVDIMMs) enumerated by the ACPI 6.0 NFIT (NVDIMM Firmware
    Interface table).

    After registering NVDIMMs the NFIT driver then registers "region"
    devices.  A libnvdimm-region defines an access mode and the
    boundaries of persistent memory media.  A region may span multiple
    NVDIMMs that are interleaved by the hardware memory controller.  In
    turn, a libnvdimm-region can be carved into a "namespace" device and
    bound to the PMEM or BLK driver which will attach a Linux block
    device (disk) interface to the memory.

  PMEM:
    Initially merged in v4.1 this driver for contiguous spans of
    persistent memory address ranges is re-worked to drive
    PMEM-namespaces emitted by the libnvdimm-core.

    In this update the PMEM driver, on x86, gains the ability to assert
    that writes to persistent memory have been flushed all the way
    through the caches and buffers in the platform to persistent media.
    See memcpy_to_pmem() and wmb_pmem().

  BLK:
    This new driver enables access to persistent memory media through
    "Block Data Windows" as defined by the NFIT.  The primary difference
    of this driver to PMEM is that only a small window of persistent
    memory is mapped into system address space at any given point in
    time.

    Per-NVDIMM windows are reprogrammed at run time, per-I/O, to access
    different portions of the media.  BLK-mode, by definition, does not
    support DAX.

  BTT:
    This is a library, optionally consumed by either PMEM or BLK, that
    converts a byte-accessible namespace into a disk with atomic sector
    update semantics (prevents sector tearing on crash or power loss).

    The sinister aspect of sector tearing is that most applications do
    not know they have a atomic sector dependency.  At least today's
    disk's rarely ever tear sectors and if they do one almost certainly
    gets a CRC error on access.  NVDIMMs will always tear and always
    silently.  Until an application is audited to be robust in the
    presence of sector-tearing the usage of BTT is recommended.

  Thanks to: Ross Zwisler, Jeff Moyer, Vishal Verma, Christoph Hellwig,
  Ingo Molnar, Neil Brown, Boaz Harrosh, Robert Elliott, Matthew Wilcox,
  Andy Rudoff, Linda Knippers, Toshi Kani, Nicholas Moulin, Rafael
  Wysocki, and Bob Moore"

* tag 'libnvdimm-for-4.2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/djbw/nvdimm: (33 commits)
  arch, x86: pmem api for ensuring durability of persistent memory updates
  libnvdimm: Add sysfs numa_node to NVDIMM devices
  libnvdimm: Set numa_node to NVDIMM devices
  acpi: Add acpi_map_pxm_to_online_node()
  libnvdimm, nfit: handle unarmed dimms, mark namespaces read-only
  pmem: flag pmem block devices as non-rotational
  libnvdimm: enable iostat
  pmem: make_request cleanups
  libnvdimm, pmem: fix up max_hw_sectors
  libnvdimm, blk: add support for blk integrity
  libnvdimm, btt: add support for blk integrity
  fs/block_dev.c: skip rw_page if bdev has integrity
  libnvdimm: Non-Volatile Devices
  tools/testing/nvdimm: libnvdimm unit test infrastructure
  libnvdimm, nfit, nd_blk: driver for BLK-mode access persistent memory
  nd_btt: atomic sector updates
  libnvdimm: infrastructure for btt devices
  libnvdimm: write blk label set
  libnvdimm: write pmem label set
  libnvdimm: blk labels and namespace instantiation
  ...
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Pull libnvdimm subsystem from Dan Williams:
 "The libnvdimm sub-system introduces, in addition to the
  libnvdimm-core, 4 drivers / enabling modules:

  NFIT:
    Instantiates an "nvdimm bus" with the core and registers memory
    devices (NVDIMMs) enumerated by the ACPI 6.0 NFIT (NVDIMM Firmware
    Interface table).

    After registering NVDIMMs the NFIT driver then registers "region"
    devices.  A libnvdimm-region defines an access mode and the
    boundaries of persistent memory media.  A region may span multiple
    NVDIMMs that are interleaved by the hardware memory controller.  In
    turn, a libnvdimm-region can be carved into a "namespace" device and
    bound to the PMEM or BLK driver which will attach a Linux block
    device (disk) interface to the memory.

  PMEM:
    Initially merged in v4.1 this driver for contiguous spans of
    persistent memory address ranges is re-worked to drive
    PMEM-namespaces emitted by the libnvdimm-core.

    In this update the PMEM driver, on x86, gains the ability to assert
    that writes to persistent memory have been flushed all the way
    through the caches and buffers in the platform to persistent media.
    See memcpy_to_pmem() and wmb_pmem().

  BLK:
    This new driver enables access to persistent memory media through
    "Block Data Windows" as defined by the NFIT.  The primary difference
    of this driver to PMEM is that only a small window of persistent
    memory is mapped into system address space at any given point in
    time.

    Per-NVDIMM windows are reprogrammed at run time, per-I/O, to access
    different portions of the media.  BLK-mode, by definition, does not
    support DAX.

  BTT:
    This is a library, optionally consumed by either PMEM or BLK, that
    converts a byte-accessible namespace into a disk with atomic sector
    update semantics (prevents sector tearing on crash or power loss).

    The sinister aspect of sector tearing is that most applications do
    not know they have a atomic sector dependency.  At least today's
    disk's rarely ever tear sectors and if they do one almost certainly
    gets a CRC error on access.  NVDIMMs will always tear and always
    silently.  Until an application is audited to be robust in the
    presence of sector-tearing the usage of BTT is recommended.

  Thanks to: Ross Zwisler, Jeff Moyer, Vishal Verma, Christoph Hellwig,
  Ingo Molnar, Neil Brown, Boaz Harrosh, Robert Elliott, Matthew Wilcox,
  Andy Rudoff, Linda Knippers, Toshi Kani, Nicholas Moulin, Rafael
  Wysocki, and Bob Moore"

* tag 'libnvdimm-for-4.2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/djbw/nvdimm: (33 commits)
  arch, x86: pmem api for ensuring durability of persistent memory updates
  libnvdimm: Add sysfs numa_node to NVDIMM devices
  libnvdimm: Set numa_node to NVDIMM devices
  acpi: Add acpi_map_pxm_to_online_node()
  libnvdimm, nfit: handle unarmed dimms, mark namespaces read-only
  pmem: flag pmem block devices as non-rotational
  libnvdimm: enable iostat
  pmem: make_request cleanups
  libnvdimm, pmem: fix up max_hw_sectors
  libnvdimm, blk: add support for blk integrity
  libnvdimm, btt: add support for blk integrity
  fs/block_dev.c: skip rw_page if bdev has integrity
  libnvdimm: Non-Volatile Devices
  tools/testing/nvdimm: libnvdimm unit test infrastructure
  libnvdimm, nfit, nd_blk: driver for BLK-mode access persistent memory
  nd_btt: atomic sector updates
  libnvdimm: infrastructure for btt devices
  libnvdimm: write blk label set
  libnvdimm: write pmem label set
  libnvdimm: blk labels and namespace instantiation
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