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Dan Williams 6568b08b77 dax: introduce dax_operations
Track a set of dax_operations per dax_device that can be set at
alloc_dax() time. These operations will be used to stop the abuse of
block_device_operations for communicating dax capabilities to
filesystems. It will also be used to replace the "pmem api" and move
pmem-specific cache maintenance, and other dax-driver-specific
filesystem-dax operations, to dax device methods. In particular this
allows us to stop abusing __copy_user_nocache(), via memcpy_to_pmem(),
with a driver specific replacement.

This is a standalone introduction of the operations. Follow on patches
convert each dax-driver and teach fs/dax.c to use ->direct_access() from
dax_operations instead of block_device_operations.

Suggested-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
2017-04-19 15:14:35 -07:00
Documentation Merge branch 'for-4.11/libnvdimm' into for-4.12/dax 2017-04-12 21:59:01 -07:00
arch Merge branch 'for-4.11/libnvdimm' into for-4.12/dax 2017-04-12 21:59:01 -07:00
block blk-mq: don't complete un-started request in timeout handler 2017-03-22 08:03:35 -06:00
certs certs: Add a secondary system keyring that can be added to dynamically 2016-04-11 22:48:09 +01:00
crypto net: Work around lockdep limitation in sockets that use sockets 2017-03-09 18:23:27 -08:00
drivers dax: introduce dax_operations 2017-04-19 15:14:35 -07:00
firmware WHENCE: use https://linuxtv.org for LinuxTV URLs 2015-12-04 10:35:11 -02:00
fs Merge branch 'for-4.11/libnvdimm' into for-4.12/dax 2017-04-12 21:59:01 -07:00
include dax: introduce dax_operations 2017-04-19 15:14:35 -07:00
init Change get_random_{int,log} to use the CRNG used by /dev/urandom and 2017-03-11 09:08:47 -08:00
ipc Merge branch 'WIP.sched-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2017-03-03 10:16:38 -08:00
kernel Merge branch 'stable-4.11' of git://git.infradead.org/users/pcmoore/audit 2017-03-25 15:13:55 -07:00
lib mm: convert generic code to 5-level paging 2017-03-09 11:48:47 -08:00
mm mm, swap: Remove WARN_ON_ONCE() in free_swap_slot() 2017-03-21 14:13:19 -07:00
net A fix for a writeback deadlock caused by a GFP_KERNEL allocation on the 2017-03-24 14:35:39 -07:00
samples Merge branch 'rebased-statx' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs 2017-03-03 11:38:56 -08:00
scripts Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew) 2017-03-10 08:34:42 -08:00
security Merge branch 'WIP.sched-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2017-03-03 10:16:38 -08:00
sound ALSA: hda - Adding a group of pin definition to fix headset problem 2017-03-23 09:39:55 +01:00
tools dax: refactor dax-fs into a generic provider of 'struct dax_device' instances 2017-04-12 21:59:14 -07:00
usr kbuild: initramfs cleanup, set target from Kconfig 2017-01-05 09:40:16 -08:00
virt KVM: arm/arm64: VGIC: Fix command handling while ITS being disabled 2017-03-07 15:44:08 +00:00
.cocciconfig scripts: add Linux .cocciconfig for coccinelle 2016-07-22 12:13:39 +02:00
.get_maintainer.ignore Add hch to .get_maintainer.ignore 2015-08-21 14:30:10 -07:00
.gitattributes .gitattributes: set git diff driver for C source code files 2016-10-07 18:46:30 -07:00
.gitignore Merge branch 'misc' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mmarek/kbuild 2016-08-02 16:48:52 -04:00
.mailmap mailmap: add codeaurora.org names for nameless email commits 2017-01-10 18:31:55 -08:00
COPYING [PATCH] update FSF address in COPYING 2005-09-10 10:06:29 -07:00
CREDITS MAINTAINERS: Remove old e-mail address 2017-02-13 12:24:56 -05:00
Kbuild scripts/gdb: provide linux constants 2016-05-23 17:04:14 -07:00
Kconfig kbuild: migrate all arch to the kconfig mainmenu upgrade 2010-09-19 22:54:11 -04:00
MAINTAINERS Merge branch 'for-4.11/libnvdimm' into for-4.12/dax 2017-04-12 21:59:01 -07:00
Makefile Linux 4.11-rc4 2017-03-26 14:15:16 -07:00
README README: add a new README file, pointing to the Documentation/ 2016-10-24 08:12:35 -02:00

README

Linux kernel
============

This file was moved to Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst

Please notice that there are several guides for kernel developers and users.
These guides can be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.

There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
See Documentation/00-INDEX for a list of what is contained in each file.

Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.