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<entry>
<title>nfit: update address range scrub commands to the acpi 6.1 format</title>
<updated>2016-02-24T01:17:20+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Dan Williams</name>
<email>dan.j.williams@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2016-02-17T21:08:58+00:00</published>
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The original format of these commands from the "NVDIMM DSM Interface
Example" [1] are superseded by the ACPI 6.1 definition of the "NVDIMM Root
Device _DSMs" [2].

[1]: http://pmem.io/documents/NVDIMM_DSM_Interface_Example.pdf
[2]: http://www.uefi.org/sites/default/files/resources/ACPI_6_1.pdf
     "9.20.7 NVDIMM Root Device _DSMs"

Changes include:
1/ New 'restart' fields in ars_status, unfortunately these are
   implemented in the middle of the existing definition so this change
   is not backwards compatible.  The expectation is that shipping
   platforms will only ever support the ACPI 6.1 definition.

2/ New status values for ars_start ('busy') and ars_status ('overflow').

Cc: Vishal Verma &lt;vishal.l.verma@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Linda Knippers &lt;linda.knippers@hpe.com&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams &lt;dan.j.williams@intel.com&gt;
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The original format of these commands from the "NVDIMM DSM Interface
Example" [1] are superseded by the ACPI 6.1 definition of the "NVDIMM Root
Device _DSMs" [2].

[1]: http://pmem.io/documents/NVDIMM_DSM_Interface_Example.pdf
[2]: http://www.uefi.org/sites/default/files/resources/ACPI_6_1.pdf
     "9.20.7 NVDIMM Root Device _DSMs"

Changes include:
1/ New 'restart' fields in ars_status, unfortunately these are
   implemented in the middle of the existing definition so this change
   is not backwards compatible.  The expectation is that shipping
   platforms will only ever support the ACPI 6.1 definition.

2/ New status values for ars_start ('busy') and ars_status ('overflow').

Cc: Vishal Verma &lt;vishal.l.verma@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Linda Knippers &lt;linda.knippers@hpe.com&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams &lt;dan.j.williams@intel.com&gt;
</pre>
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>libnvdimm, tools/testing/nvdimm: fix 'ars_status' output buffer sizing</title>
<updated>2016-02-19T23:21:52+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Dan Williams</name>
<email>dan.j.williams@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2016-02-19T23:21:14+00:00</published>
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Use the output length specified in the command to size the receive
buffer rather than the arbitrary 4K limit.

This bug was hiding the fact that the ndctl implementation of
ndctl_bus_cmd_new_ars_status() was not specifying an output buffer size.

Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Vishal Verma &lt;vishal.l.verma@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams &lt;dan.j.williams@intel.com&gt;
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Use the output length specified in the command to size the receive
buffer rather than the arbitrary 4K limit.

This bug was hiding the fact that the ndctl implementation of
ndctl_bus_cmd_new_ars_status() was not specifying an output buffer size.

Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Vishal Verma &lt;vishal.l.verma@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams &lt;dan.j.williams@intel.com&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>libnvdimm: Add a poison list and export badblocks</title>
<updated>2016-01-09T16:39:03+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Vishal Verma</name>
<email>vishal.l.verma@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2015-12-25T02:21:43+00:00</published>
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During region creation, perform Address Range Scrubs (ARS) for the SPA
(System Physical Address) ranges to retrieve known poison locations from
firmware. Add a new data structure 'nd_poison' which is used as a list
in nvdimm_bus to store these poison locations.

When creating a pmem namespace, if there is any known poison associated
with its physical address space, convert the poison ranges to bad sectors
that are exposed using the badblocks interface.

Signed-off-by: Vishal Verma &lt;vishal.l.verma@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams &lt;dan.j.williams@intel.com&gt;
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During region creation, perform Address Range Scrubs (ARS) for the SPA
(System Physical Address) ranges to retrieve known poison locations from
firmware. Add a new data structure 'nd_poison' which is used as a list
in nvdimm_bus to store these poison locations.

When creating a pmem namespace, if there is any known poison associated
with its physical address space, convert the poison ranges to bad sectors
that are exposed using the badblocks interface.

Signed-off-by: Vishal Verma &lt;vishal.l.verma@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams &lt;dan.j.williams@intel.com&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>libnvdimm, pmem: direct map legacy pmem by default</title>
<updated>2015-08-29T03:40:05+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Dan Williams</name>
<email>dan.j.williams@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2015-08-24T23:20:23+00:00</published>
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The expectation is that the legacy / non-standard pmem discovery method
(e820 type-12) will only ever be used to describe small quantities of
persistent memory.  Larger capacities will be described via the ACPI
NFIT.  When "allocate struct page from pmem" support is added this default
policy can be overridden by assigning a legacy pmem namespace to a pfn
device, however this would be only be necessary if a platform used the
legacy mechanism to define a very large range.

Cc: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams &lt;dan.j.williams@intel.com&gt;
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The expectation is that the legacy / non-standard pmem discovery method
(e820 type-12) will only ever be used to describe small quantities of
persistent memory.  Larger capacities will be described via the ACPI
NFIT.  When "allocate struct page from pmem" support is added this default
policy can be overridden by assigning a legacy pmem namespace to a pfn
device, however this would be only be necessary if a platform used the
legacy mechanism to define a very large range.

Cc: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams &lt;dan.j.williams@intel.com&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>libnvdimm: Add sysfs numa_node to NVDIMM devices</title>
<updated>2015-06-26T15:23:38+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Toshi Kani</name>
<email>toshi.kani@hp.com</email>
</author>
<published>2015-06-19T18:18:34+00:00</published>
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Add support of sysfs 'numa_node' to I/O-related NVDIMM devices
under /sys/bus/nd/devices, regionN, namespaceN.0, and bttN.x.

An example of numa_node values on a 2-socket system with a single
NVDIMM range on each socket is shown below.
  /sys/bus/nd/devices
  |-- btt0.0/numa_node:0
  |-- btt1.0/numa_node:1
  |-- btt1.1/numa_node:1
  |-- namespace0.0/numa_node:0
  |-- namespace1.0/numa_node:1
  |-- region0/numa_node:0
  |-- region1/numa_node:1

These numa_node files are then linked under the block class of
their device names.
  /sys/class/block/pmem0/device/numa_node:0
  /sys/class/block/pmem1s/device/numa_node:1

This enables numactl(8) to accept 'block:' and 'file:' paths of
pmem and btt devices as shown in the examples below.
  numactl --preferred block:pmem0 --show
  numactl --preferred file:/dev/pmem1s --show

Signed-off-by: Toshi Kani &lt;toshi.kani@hp.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams &lt;dan.j.williams@intel.com&gt;
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Add support of sysfs 'numa_node' to I/O-related NVDIMM devices
under /sys/bus/nd/devices, regionN, namespaceN.0, and bttN.x.

An example of numa_node values on a 2-socket system with a single
NVDIMM range on each socket is shown below.
  /sys/bus/nd/devices
  |-- btt0.0/numa_node:0
  |-- btt1.0/numa_node:1
  |-- btt1.1/numa_node:1
  |-- namespace0.0/numa_node:0
  |-- namespace1.0/numa_node:1
  |-- region0/numa_node:0
  |-- region1/numa_node:1

These numa_node files are then linked under the block class of
their device names.
  /sys/class/block/pmem0/device/numa_node:0
  /sys/class/block/pmem1s/device/numa_node:1

This enables numactl(8) to accept 'block:' and 'file:' paths of
pmem and btt devices as shown in the examples below.
  numactl --preferred block:pmem0 --show
  numactl --preferred file:/dev/pmem1s --show

Signed-off-by: Toshi Kani &lt;toshi.kani@hp.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams &lt;dan.j.williams@intel.com&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>libnvdimm: Set numa_node to NVDIMM devices</title>
<updated>2015-06-26T15:23:38+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Toshi Kani</name>
<email>toshi.kani@hp.com</email>
</author>
<published>2015-06-19T18:18:33+00:00</published>
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ACPI NFIT table has System Physical Address Range Structure entries that
describe a proximity ID of each range when ACPI_NFIT_PROXIMITY_VALID is
set in the flags.

Change acpi_nfit_register_region() to map a proximity ID to its node ID,
and set it to a new numa_node field of nd_region_desc, which is then
conveyed to the nd_region device.

The device core arranges for btt and namespace devices to inherit their
node from their parent region.

Signed-off-by: Toshi Kani &lt;toshi.kani@hp.com&gt;
[djbw: move set_dev_node() from region.c to bus.c]
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams &lt;dan.j.williams@intel.com&gt;
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ACPI NFIT table has System Physical Address Range Structure entries that
describe a proximity ID of each range when ACPI_NFIT_PROXIMITY_VALID is
set in the flags.

Change acpi_nfit_register_region() to map a proximity ID to its node ID,
and set it to a new numa_node field of nd_region_desc, which is then
conveyed to the nd_region device.

The device core arranges for btt and namespace devices to inherit their
node from their parent region.

Signed-off-by: Toshi Kani &lt;toshi.kani@hp.com&gt;
[djbw: move set_dev_node() from region.c to bus.c]
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams &lt;dan.j.williams@intel.com&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>libnvdimm, nfit: handle unarmed dimms, mark namespaces read-only</title>
<updated>2015-06-26T15:23:38+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Dan Williams</name>
<email>dan.j.williams@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2015-06-24T00:08:34+00:00</published>
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Upon detection of an unarmed dimm in a region, arrange for descendant
BTT, PMEM, or BLK instances to be read-only.  A dimm is primarily marked
"unarmed" via flags passed by platform firmware (NFIT).

The flags in the NFIT memory device sub-structure indicate the state of
the data on the nvdimm relative to its energy source or last "flush to
persistence".  For the most part there is nothing the driver can do but
advertise the state of these flags in sysfs and emit a message if
firmware indicates that the contents of the device may be corrupted.
However, for the case of ACPI_NFIT_MEM_ARMED, the driver can arrange for
the block devices incorporating that nvdimm to be marked read-only.
This is a safe default as the data is still available and new writes are
held off until the administrator either forces read-write mode, or the
energy source becomes armed.

A 'read_only' attribute is added to REGION devices to allow for
overriding the default read-only policy of all descendant block devices.

Signed-off-by: Dan Williams &lt;dan.j.williams@intel.com&gt;
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Upon detection of an unarmed dimm in a region, arrange for descendant
BTT, PMEM, or BLK instances to be read-only.  A dimm is primarily marked
"unarmed" via flags passed by platform firmware (NFIT).

The flags in the NFIT memory device sub-structure indicate the state of
the data on the nvdimm relative to its energy source or last "flush to
persistence".  For the most part there is nothing the driver can do but
advertise the state of these flags in sysfs and emit a message if
firmware indicates that the contents of the device may be corrupted.
However, for the case of ACPI_NFIT_MEM_ARMED, the driver can arrange for
the block devices incorporating that nvdimm to be marked read-only.
This is a safe default as the data is still available and new writes are
held off until the administrator either forces read-write mode, or the
energy source becomes armed.

A 'read_only' attribute is added to REGION devices to allow for
overriding the default read-only policy of all descendant block devices.

Signed-off-by: Dan Williams &lt;dan.j.williams@intel.com&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>libnvdimm, nfit, nd_blk: driver for BLK-mode access persistent memory</title>
<updated>2015-06-26T15:23:38+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Ross Zwisler</name>
<email>ross.zwisler@linux.intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2015-06-25T08:21:02+00:00</published>
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The libnvdimm implementation handles allocating dimm address space (DPA)
between PMEM and BLK mode interfaces.  After DPA has been allocated from
a BLK-region to a BLK-namespace the nd_blk driver attaches to handle I/O
as a struct bio based block device. Unlike PMEM, BLK is required to
handle platform specific details like mmio register formats and memory
controller interleave.  For this reason the libnvdimm generic nd_blk
driver calls back into the bus provider to carry out the I/O.

This initial implementation handles the BLK interface defined by the
ACPI 6 NFIT [1] and the NVDIMM DSM Interface Example [2] composed from
DCR (dimm control region), BDW (block data window), IDT (interleave
descriptor) NFIT structures and the hardware register format.
[1]: http://www.uefi.org/sites/default/files/resources/ACPI_6.0.pdf
[2]: http://pmem.io/documents/NVDIMM_DSM_Interface_Example.pdf

Cc: Andy Lutomirski &lt;luto@amacapital.net&gt;
Cc: Boaz Harrosh &lt;boaz@plexistor.com&gt;
Cc: H. Peter Anvin &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
Cc: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@fb.com&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ross Zwisler &lt;ross.zwisler@linux.intel.com&gt;
Acked-by: Rafael J. Wysocki &lt;rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams &lt;dan.j.williams@intel.com&gt;</content>
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The libnvdimm implementation handles allocating dimm address space (DPA)
between PMEM and BLK mode interfaces.  After DPA has been allocated from
a BLK-region to a BLK-namespace the nd_blk driver attaches to handle I/O
as a struct bio based block device. Unlike PMEM, BLK is required to
handle platform specific details like mmio register formats and memory
controller interleave.  For this reason the libnvdimm generic nd_blk
driver calls back into the bus provider to carry out the I/O.

This initial implementation handles the BLK interface defined by the
ACPI 6 NFIT [1] and the NVDIMM DSM Interface Example [2] composed from
DCR (dimm control region), BDW (block data window), IDT (interleave
descriptor) NFIT structures and the hardware register format.
[1]: http://www.uefi.org/sites/default/files/resources/ACPI_6.0.pdf
[2]: http://pmem.io/documents/NVDIMM_DSM_Interface_Example.pdf

Cc: Andy Lutomirski &lt;luto@amacapital.net&gt;
Cc: Boaz Harrosh &lt;boaz@plexistor.com&gt;
Cc: H. Peter Anvin &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
Cc: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@fb.com&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ross Zwisler &lt;ross.zwisler@linux.intel.com&gt;
Acked-by: Rafael J. Wysocki &lt;rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams &lt;dan.j.williams@intel.com&gt;</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>nd_btt: atomic sector updates</title>
<updated>2015-06-26T15:23:38+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Vishal Verma</name>
<email>vishal.l.verma@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2015-06-25T08:20:32+00:00</published>
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BTT stands for Block Translation Table, and is a way to provide power
fail sector atomicity semantics for block devices that have the ability
to perform byte granularity IO. It relies on the capability of libnvdimm
namespace devices to do byte aligned IO.

The BTT works as a stacked blocked device, and reserves a chunk of space
from the backing device for its accounting metadata. It is a bio-based
driver because all IO is done synchronously, and there is no queuing or
asynchronous completions at either the device or the driver level.

The BTT uses 'lanes' to index into various 'on-disk' data structures,
and lanes also act as a synchronization mechanism in case there are more
CPUs than available lanes. We did a comparison between two lane lock
strategies - first where we kept an atomic counter around that tracked
which was the last lane that was used, and 'our' lane was determined by
atomically incrementing that. That way, for the nr_cpus &gt; nr_lanes case,
theoretically, no CPU would be blocked waiting for a lane. The other
strategy was to use the cpu number we're scheduled on to and hash it to
a lane number. Theoretically, this could block an IO that could've
otherwise run using a different, free lane. But some fio workloads
showed that the direct cpu -&gt; lane hash performed faster than tracking
'last lane' - my reasoning is the cache thrash caused by moving the
atomic variable made that approach slower than simply waiting out the
in-progress IO. This supports the conclusion that the driver can be a
very simple bio-based one that does synchronous IOs instead of queuing.

Cc: Andy Lutomirski &lt;luto@amacapital.net&gt;
Cc: Boaz Harrosh &lt;boaz@plexistor.com&gt;
Cc: H. Peter Anvin &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
Cc: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@fb.com&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Cc: Neil Brown &lt;neilb@suse.de&gt;
Cc: Jeff Moyer &lt;jmoyer@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Dave Chinner &lt;david@fromorbit.com&gt;
Cc: Greg KH &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
[jmoyer: fix nmi watchdog timeout in btt_map_init]
[jmoyer: move btt initialization to module load path]
[jmoyer: fix memory leak in the btt initialization path]
[jmoyer: Don't overwrite corrupted arenas]
Signed-off-by: Vishal Verma &lt;vishal.l.verma@linux.intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams &lt;dan.j.williams@intel.com&gt;</content>
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BTT stands for Block Translation Table, and is a way to provide power
fail sector atomicity semantics for block devices that have the ability
to perform byte granularity IO. It relies on the capability of libnvdimm
namespace devices to do byte aligned IO.

The BTT works as a stacked blocked device, and reserves a chunk of space
from the backing device for its accounting metadata. It is a bio-based
driver because all IO is done synchronously, and there is no queuing or
asynchronous completions at either the device or the driver level.

The BTT uses 'lanes' to index into various 'on-disk' data structures,
and lanes also act as a synchronization mechanism in case there are more
CPUs than available lanes. We did a comparison between two lane lock
strategies - first where we kept an atomic counter around that tracked
which was the last lane that was used, and 'our' lane was determined by
atomically incrementing that. That way, for the nr_cpus &gt; nr_lanes case,
theoretically, no CPU would be blocked waiting for a lane. The other
strategy was to use the cpu number we're scheduled on to and hash it to
a lane number. Theoretically, this could block an IO that could've
otherwise run using a different, free lane. But some fio workloads
showed that the direct cpu -&gt; lane hash performed faster than tracking
'last lane' - my reasoning is the cache thrash caused by moving the
atomic variable made that approach slower than simply waiting out the
in-progress IO. This supports the conclusion that the driver can be a
very simple bio-based one that does synchronous IOs instead of queuing.

Cc: Andy Lutomirski &lt;luto@amacapital.net&gt;
Cc: Boaz Harrosh &lt;boaz@plexistor.com&gt;
Cc: H. Peter Anvin &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
Cc: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@fb.com&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Cc: Neil Brown &lt;neilb@suse.de&gt;
Cc: Jeff Moyer &lt;jmoyer@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Dave Chinner &lt;david@fromorbit.com&gt;
Cc: Greg KH &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
[jmoyer: fix nmi watchdog timeout in btt_map_init]
[jmoyer: move btt initialization to module load path]
[jmoyer: fix memory leak in the btt initialization path]
[jmoyer: Don't overwrite corrupted arenas]
Signed-off-by: Vishal Verma &lt;vishal.l.verma@linux.intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams &lt;dan.j.williams@intel.com&gt;</pre>
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<title>libnvdimm: blk labels and namespace instantiation</title>
<updated>2015-06-25T01:24:10+00:00</updated>
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<name>Dan Williams</name>
<email>dan.j.williams@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2015-05-01T17:34:01+00:00</published>
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A blk label set describes a namespace comprised of one or more
discontiguous dpa ranges on a single dimm.  They may alias with one or
more pmem interleave sets that include the given dimm.

This is the runtime/volatile configuration infrastructure for sysfs
manipulation of 'alt_name', 'uuid', 'size', and 'sector_size'.  A later
patch will make these settings persistent by writing back the label(s).

Unlike pmem namespaces, multiple blk namespaces can be created per
region.  Once a blk namespace has been created a new seed device
(unconfigured child of a parent blk region) is instantiated.  As long as
a region has 'available_size' != 0 new child namespaces may be created.

Cc: Greg KH &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
Cc: Neil Brown &lt;neilb@suse.de&gt;
Acked-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams &lt;dan.j.williams@intel.com&gt;
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A blk label set describes a namespace comprised of one or more
discontiguous dpa ranges on a single dimm.  They may alias with one or
more pmem interleave sets that include the given dimm.

This is the runtime/volatile configuration infrastructure for sysfs
manipulation of 'alt_name', 'uuid', 'size', and 'sector_size'.  A later
patch will make these settings persistent by writing back the label(s).

Unlike pmem namespaces, multiple blk namespaces can be created per
region.  Once a blk namespace has been created a new seed device
(unconfigured child of a parent blk region) is instantiated.  As long as
a region has 'available_size' != 0 new child namespaces may be created.

Cc: Greg KH &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
Cc: Neil Brown &lt;neilb@suse.de&gt;
Acked-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams &lt;dan.j.williams@intel.com&gt;
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