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Commit 9567da0b authored by Dan Williams's avatar Dan Williams
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device-dax: Introduce bus + driver model



In support of multiple device-dax instances per device-dax-region and
allowing the 'kmem' driver to attach to dax-instances instead of the
current device-node access, convert the dax sub-system from a class to a
bus. Recall that the kmem driver takes reserved / special purpose
memories and assigns them to be managed by the core-mm.

Aside from the fact the device-dax instances are registered and probed
on a bus, two other lifetime-management changes are made:

1/ Delay attaching a cdev until driver probe time

2/ A new run_dax() helper is introduced to allow restoring dax-operation
   after a kill_dax() event. So, at driver ->probe() time we run_dax()
   and at ->remove() time we kill_dax() and invalidate all mappings.

Signed-off-by: default avatarDan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
parent 51cf784c
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