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Commit bd799eb6 authored by Linus Torvalds's avatar Linus Torvalds
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Merge tag 'libnvdimm-fixes-4.20-rc6' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/nvdimm/nvdimm

Pull libnvdimm fixes from Dan Williams:
 "A regression fix for the Address Range Scrub implementation, yes
  another one, and support for platforms that misalign persistent memory
  relative to the Linux memory hotplug section constraint. Longer term,
  support for sub-section memory hotplug would alleviate alignment
  waste, but until then this hack allows a 'struct page' memmap to be
  established for these misaligned memory regions.

  These have all appeared in a -next release, and thanks to Patrick for
  reporting and testing the alignment padding fix.

  Summary:

   - Unless and until the core mm handles memory hotplug units smaller
     than a section (128M), persistent memory namespaces must be padded
     to section alignment.

     The libnvdimm core already handled section collision with "System
     RAM", but some configurations overlap independent "Persistent
     Memory" ranges within a section, so additional padding injection is
     added for that case.

   - The recent reworks of the ARS (address range scrub) state machine
     to reduce the number of state flags inadvertantly missed a
     conversion of acpi_nfit_ars_rescan() call sites. Fix the regression
     whereby user-requested ARS results in a "short" scrub rather than a
     "long" scrub.

   - Fixup the unit tests to handle / test the 128M section alignment of
     mocked test resources.

* tag 'libnvdimm-fixes-4.20-rc6' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/nvdimm/nvdimm:
  acpi/nfit: Fix user-initiated ARS to be "ARS-long" rather than "ARS-short"
  libnvdimm, pfn: Pad pfn namespaces relative to other regions
  tools/testing/nvdimm: Align test resources to 128M
parents 6ec067e3 b5fd2e00
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