linux/include
Dan Williams 34c0fd540e mm, dax, pmem: introduce pfn_t
For the purpose of communicating the optional presence of a 'struct
page' for the pfn returned from ->direct_access(), introduce a type that
encapsulates a page-frame-number plus flags.  These flags contain the
historical "page_link" encoding for a scatterlist entry, but can also
denote "device memory".  Where "device memory" is a set of pfns that are
not part of the kernel's linear mapping by default, but are accessed via
the same memory controller as ram.

The motivation for this new type is large capacity persistent memory
that needs struct page entries in the 'memmap' to support 3rd party DMA
(i.e.  O_DIRECT I/O with a persistent memory source/target).  However,
we also need it in support of maintaining a list of mapped inodes which
need to be unmapped at driver teardown or freeze_bdev() time.

Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave@sr71.net>
Cc: Ross Zwisler <ross.zwisler@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2016-01-15 17:56:32 -08:00
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acpi Merge branches 'acpi-scan', 'acpi-bus', 'acpi-osl' and 'acpi-pm' 2016-01-12 01:10:03 +01:00
asm-generic mm, thp: remove infrastructure for handling splitting PMDs 2016-01-15 17:56:32 -08:00
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dt-bindings Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial 2016-01-14 17:04:19 -08:00
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linux mm, dax, pmem: introduce pfn_t 2016-01-15 17:56:32 -08:00
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media [media] media-entitiy: add a function to create multiple links 2016-01-11 12:19:26 -02:00
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scsi Merge branch 'jejb-scsi' into misc 2016-01-07 15:51:13 -08:00
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trace khugepaged: ignore pmd tables with THP mapped with ptes 2016-01-15 17:56:32 -08:00
uapi arch/*/include/uapi/asm/mman.h: : let MADV_FREE have same value for all architectures 2016-01-15 17:56:32 -08:00
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