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Commit 34c0fd54 authored by Dan Williams's avatar Dan Williams Committed by Linus Torvalds
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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: default avatarDan 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: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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