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Linus Torvalds dd5cdb48ed Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next
Pull networking updates from David Miller:
 "Another merge window, another set of networking changes.  I've heard
  rumblings that the lightweight tunnels infrastructure has been voted
  networking change of the year.  But what do I know?

   1) Add conntrack support to openvswitch, from Joe Stringer.

   2) Initial support for VRF (Virtual Routing and Forwarding), which
      allows the segmentation of routing paths without using multiple
      devices.  There are some semantic kinks to work out still, but
      this is a reasonably strong foundation.  From David Ahern.

   3) Remove spinlock fro act_bpf fast path, from Alexei Starovoitov.

   4) Ignore route nexthops with a link down state in ipv6, just like
      ipv4.  From Andy Gospodarek.

   5) Remove spinlock from fast path of act_gact and act_mirred, from
      Eric Dumazet.

   6) Document the DSA layer, from Florian Fainelli.

   7) Add netconsole support to bcmgenet, systemport, and DSA.  Also
      from Florian Fainelli.

   8) Add Mellanox Switch Driver and core infrastructure, from Jiri
      Pirko.

   9) Add support for "light weight tunnels", which allow for
      encapsulation and decapsulation without bearing the overhead of a
      full blown netdevice.  From Thomas Graf, Jiri Benc, and a cast of
      others.

  10) Add Identifier Locator Addressing support for ipv6, from Tom
      Herbert.

  11) Support fragmented SKBs in iwlwifi, from Johannes Berg.

  12) Allow perf PMUs to be accessed from eBPF programs, from Kaixu Xia.

  13) Add BQL support to 3c59x driver, from Loganaden Velvindron.

  14) Stop using a zero TX queue length to mean that a device shouldn't
      have a qdisc attached, use an explicit flag instead.  From Phil
      Sutter.

  15) Use generic geneve netdevice infrastructure in openvswitch, from
      Pravin B Shelar.

  16) Add infrastructure to avoid re-forwarding a packet in software
      that was already forwarded by a hardware switch.  From Scott
      Feldman.

  17) Allow AF_PACKET fanout function to be implemented in a bpf
      program, from Willem de Bruijn"

* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next: (1458 commits)
  netfilter: nf_conntrack: make nf_ct_zone_dflt built-in
  netfilter: nf_dup{4, 6}: fix build error when nf_conntrack disabled
  net: fec: clear receive interrupts before processing a packet
  ipv6: fix exthdrs offload registration in out_rt path
  xen-netback: add support for multicast control
  bgmac: Update fixed_phy_register()
  sock, diag: fix panic in sock_diag_put_filterinfo
  flow_dissector: Use 'const' where possible.
  flow_dissector: Fix function argument ordering dependency
  ixgbe: Resolve "initialized field overwritten" warnings
  ixgbe: Remove bimodal SR-IOV disabling
  ixgbe: Add support for reporting 2.5G link speed
  ixgbe: fix bounds checking in ixgbe_setup_tc for 82598
  ixgbe: support for ethtool set_rxfh
  ixgbe: Avoid needless PHY access on copper phys
  ixgbe: cleanup to use cached mask value
  ixgbe: Remove second instance of lan_id variable
  ixgbe: use kzalloc for allocating one thing
  flow: Move __get_hash_from_flowi{4,6} into flow_dissector.c
  ixgbe: Remove unused PCI bus types
  ...
2015-09-03 08:08:17 -07:00
Linus Torvalds 5778077d03 Merge branch 'x86-asm-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
Pull x86 asm changes from Ingo Molnar:
 "The biggest changes in this cycle were:

   - Revamp, simplify (and in some cases fix) Time Stamp Counter (TSC)
     primitives.  (Andy Lutomirski)

   - Add new, comprehensible entry and exit handlers written in C.
     (Andy Lutomirski)

   - vm86 mode cleanups and fixes.  (Brian Gerst)

   - 32-bit compat code cleanups.  (Brian Gerst)

  The amount of simplification in low level assembly code is already
  palpable:

     arch/x86/entry/entry_32.S                          | 130 +----
     arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S                          | 197 ++-----

  but more simplifications are planned.

  There's also the usual laudry mix of low level changes - see the
  changelog for details"

* 'x86-asm-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (83 commits)
  x86/asm: Drop repeated macro of X86_EFLAGS_AC definition
  x86/asm/msr: Make wrmsrl() a function
  x86/asm/delay: Introduce an MWAITX-based delay with a configurable timer
  x86/asm: Add MONITORX/MWAITX instruction support
  x86/traps: Weaken context tracking entry assertions
  x86/asm/tsc: Add rdtscll() merge helper
  selftests/x86: Add syscall_nt selftest
  selftests/x86: Disable sigreturn_64
  x86/vdso: Emit a GNU hash
  x86/entry: Remove do_notify_resume(), syscall_trace_leave(), and their TIF masks
  x86/entry/32: Migrate to C exit path
  x86/entry/32: Remove 32-bit syscall audit optimizations
  x86/vm86: Rename vm86->v86flags and v86mask
  x86/vm86: Rename vm86->vm86_info to user_vm86
  x86/vm86: Clean up vm86.h includes
  x86/vm86: Move the vm86 IRQ definitions to vm86.h
  x86/vm86: Use the normal pt_regs area for vm86
  x86/vm86: Eliminate 'struct kernel_vm86_struct'
  x86/vm86: Move fields from 'struct kernel_vm86_struct' to 'struct vm86'
  x86/vm86: Move vm86 fields out of 'thread_struct'
  ...
2015-09-01 08:40:25 -07:00
Linus Torvalds 7073bc6612 Merge branch 'core-rcu-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
Pull RCU updates from Ingo Molnar:
 "The main RCU changes in this cycle are:

   - the combination of tree geometry-initialization simplifications and
     OS-jitter-reduction changes to expedited grace periods.  These two
     are stacked due to the large number of conflicts that would
     otherwise result.

   - privatize smp_mb__after_unlock_lock().

     This commit moves the definition of smp_mb__after_unlock_lock() to
     kernel/rcu/tree.h, in recognition of the fact that RCU is the only
     thing using this, that nothing else is likely to use it, and that
     it is likely to go away completely.

   - documentation updates.

   - torture-test updates.

   - misc fixes"

* 'core-rcu-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (60 commits)
  rcu,locking: Privatize smp_mb__after_unlock_lock()
  rcu: Silence lockdep false positive for expedited grace periods
  rcu: Don't disable CPU hotplug during OOM notifiers
  scripts: Make checkpatch.pl warn on expedited RCU grace periods
  rcu: Update MAINTAINERS entry
  rcu: Clarify CONFIG_RCU_EQS_DEBUG help text
  rcu: Fix backwards RCU_LOCKDEP_WARN() in synchronize_rcu_tasks()
  rcu: Rename rcu_lockdep_assert() to RCU_LOCKDEP_WARN()
  rcu: Make rcu_is_watching() really notrace
  cpu: Wait for RCU grace periods concurrently
  rcu: Create a synchronize_rcu_mult()
  rcu: Fix obsolete priority-boosting comment
  rcu: Use WRITE_ONCE in RCU_INIT_POINTER
  rcu: Hide RCU_NOCB_CPU behind RCU_EXPERT
  rcu: Add RCU-sched flavors of get-state and cond-sync
  rcu: Add fastpath bypassing funnel locking
  rcu: Rename RCU_GP_DONE_FQS to RCU_GP_DOING_FQS
  rcu: Pull out wait_event*() condition into helper function
  documentation: Describe new expedited stall warnings
  rcu: Add stall warnings to synchronize_sched_expedited()
  ...
2015-08-31 18:12:07 -07:00
Linus Torvalds 1af115d675 Merge tag 'driver-core-4.3-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-core
Pull driver core updates from Greg KH:
 "Here is the new patches for the driver core / sysfs for 4.3-rc1.

  Very small number of changes here, all the details are in the
  shortlog, nothing major happening at all this kernel release, which is
  nice to see"

* tag 'driver-core-4.3-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-core:
  bus: subsys: update return type of ->remove_dev() to void
  driver core: correct device's shutdown order
  driver core: fix docbook for device_private.device
  selftests: firmware: skip timeout checks for kernels without user mode helper
  kernel, cpu: Remove bogus __ref annotations
  cpu: Remove bogus __ref annotation of cpu_subsys_online()
  firmware: fix wrong memory deallocation in fw_add_devm_name()
  sysfs.txt: update show method notes about sprintf/snprintf/scnprintf usage
  devres: fix devres_get()
2015-08-31 08:47:40 -07:00
Andy Lutomirski a9c909ce8c selftests/x86: Add syscall_nt selftest
I've had this sitting around for a while.  Add it to the
selftests tree.  Far Cry running under Wine depends on this
behavior.

Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com>
Cc: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@redhat.com>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Shuah Khan <shuahkh@osg.samsung.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/ee4d63799a9e5294b70930618b71d04d2770eb2d.1439838962.git.luto@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2015-08-18 09:43:38 +02:00
Andy Lutomirski 33f3df41d0 selftests/x86: Disable sigreturn_64
sigreturn_64 was broken by ed596cde94 ("Revert x86 sigcontext
cleanups").  Turn it off until we have a better fix.

Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com>
Cc: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@redhat.com>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Shuah Khan <shuahkh@osg.samsung.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/a184e75ff170a0bcd76bf376c41cad2c402fe9f7.1439838962.git.luto@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2015-08-18 09:43:31 +02:00
Ingo Molnar a5dd192496 Merge branch 'x86/urgent' into x86/asm to fix up conflicts and to pick up fixes
Conflicts:
	arch/x86/entry/entry_64_compat.S
	arch/x86/math-emu/get_address.c

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2015-08-18 09:39:47 +02:00
Willem de Bruijn 30da679e67 selftests/net: test extended BPF fanout mode
Test PACKET_FANOUT_EBPF by inserting a program into the the kernel
with bpf(), then attaching it to the fanout group. Observe the same
payload-based distribution as in the PACKET_FANOUT_CBPF test.

Signed-off-by: Willem de Bruijn <willemb@google.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2015-08-17 14:22:48 -07:00
Willem de Bruijn 95e22792fa selftests/net: test classic bpf fanout mode
Test PACKET_FANOUT_CBPF by inserting a cBPF program that selects a
socket by payload. Requires modifying the test program to send
packets with multiple payloads.

Also fix a bug in testing the return value of mmap()

Signed-off-by: Willem de Bruijn <willemb@google.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2015-08-17 14:22:48 -07:00
Ingo Molnar 9b9412dc70 Merge branch 'for-mingo' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulmck/linux-rcu into core/rcu
Pull RCU changes from Paul E. McKenney:

  - The combination of tree geometry-initialization simplifications
    and OS-jitter-reduction changes to expedited grace periods.
    These two are stacked due to the large number of conflicts
    that would otherwise result.

    [ With one addition, a temporary commit to silence a lockdep false
      positive. Additional changes to the expedited grace-period
      primitives (queued for 4.4) remove the cause of this false
      positive, and therefore include a revert of this temporary commit. ]

  - Documentation updates.

  - Torture-test updates.

  - Miscellaneous fixes.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2015-08-12 12:12:12 +02:00
Luis R. Rodriguez 1d0fbb3467 selftests: firmware: skip timeout checks for kernels without user mode helper
The CONFIG_FW_LOADER_USER_HELPER is mostly disabled these days, so skip
timeout setting for these kernels.

Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <mcgrof@suse.com>
Acked-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2015-08-05 17:07:19 -07:00
Paul E. McKenney 3dbe43f6fb Merge branches 'doc.2015.07.15a' and 'torture.2015.07.15a' into HEAD
doc.2015.07.15a: Documentation updates.
torture.2015.07.15a: Torture-test updates.
2015-08-04 08:42:02 -07:00
Andy Lutomirski e800eb39e3 selftests/x86/vm86: Fix entry_from_vm86 test on 64-bit kernels
The test failed due to an oversight on my part when run on a
64-bit kernel.  vm86 isn't expected to work at all, and I
mistakenly failed one part of the test because no signal was
delivered.

Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com>
Cc: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@redhat.com>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Shuah Khan <shuahkh@osg.samsung.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/502c8bef877b33fe4943885ded6125dfcc7892db.1438205722.git.luto@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2015-07-31 13:31:07 +02:00
Andy Lutomirski 014dc90b66 selftests/x86, x86/ldt: Add a selftest for modify_ldt()
This tests general modify_ldt() behavior (only writes, so far) as
well as synchronous updates via IPI.  It fails on old kernels.

I called this ldt_gdt because I'll add set_thread_area() tests to
it at some point.

Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Cc: Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com>
Cc: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@redhat.com>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>
Cc: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@oracle.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: security@kernel.org <security@kernel.org>
Cc: xen-devel <xen-devel@lists.xen.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/dcfda65dad07ff5a3ea97a9172b5963bf8031b2e.1438291540.git.luto@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2015-07-31 10:24:37 +02:00
Ingo Molnar 5b929bd11d Merge branch 'x86/urgent' into x86/asm, before applying dependent patches
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2015-07-31 10:23:35 +02:00
Linus Torvalds 30b4f0faf4 Merge tag 'linux-kselftest-4.2-rc5' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/shuah/linux-kselftest
Pull kselftest fix from Shuah Khan.

* tag 'linux-kselftest-4.2-rc5' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/shuah/linux-kselftest:
  selftests/futex: Fix futex_cmp_requeue_pi() error handling
2015-07-28 10:09:53 -07:00
Andy Lutomirski f2a50f8b7d x86/selftests, x86/vm86: Improve entry_from_vm86 selftest
The entry_from_vm86 selftest was very weak.  Improve it: test
more types of kernel entries from vm86 mode and test them more
carefully.

While we're at it, try to improve behavior on non-SEP CPUs.  The
old code was buggy because I misunderstood the intended
semantics of #UD in vm86, so I didn't handle a possible signal.

Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com>
Cc: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@redhat.com>
Cc: Denys Vlasenko <vda.linux@googlemail.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Shuah Khan <shuahkh@osg.samsung.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/d8ef1d7368ac70d8342481563ed50f9a7d2eea6f.1436492057.git.luto@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2015-07-21 10:51:20 +02:00
Darren Hart fee50f3c84 selftests/futex: Fix futex_cmp_requeue_pi() error handling
An earlier (pre-kernel-integration) refactoring of this code mistakenly
replaced the error condition, <, with a >. Use < to detect an error as
opposed to a successful requeue or signal race.

Reported-by: David Binderman <dcb314@hotmail.com>
Cc: Shuah Khan <shuahkh@osg.samsung.com>
Signed-off-by: Darren Hart <dvhart@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Shuah Khan <shuahkh@osg.samsung.com>
2015-07-20 18:29:38 -06:00
Paul E. McKenney 75c27f119b rcu: Remove CONFIG_RCU_CPU_STALL_INFO
The CONFIG_RCU_CPU_STALL_INFO has been default-y for a couple of
releases with no complaints, so it is time to eliminate this Kconfig
option entirely, so that the long-form RCU CPU stall warnings cannot
be disabled.  This commit does just that.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2015-07-17 14:58:44 -07:00
Paul E. McKenney d6a8c6d342 rcutorture: Enable lockdep-RCU on TASKS01
Currently none of the RCU-tasks scenarios enables lockdep-RCU, which
causes bugs to be missed.  This commit therefore enables lockdep-RCU
on TASKS01.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2015-07-15 14:47:20 -07:00
Dan Williams 9d27a87ec9 tools/testing/nvdimm: add mock acpi_nfit_flush_address entries to nfit_test
In preparation for fixing the BLK path to properly use "directed
pcommit" enable the unit test infrastructure to emit mock "flush"
tables.  Writes to these flush addresses trigger a memory controller to
flush its internal buffers to persistent media, similar to the x86
"pcommit" instruction.

Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
2015-07-10 14:07:03 -04:00
Dan Williams f7ec83684a tools/testing/nvdimm: fix return code for unimplemented commands
The implementation for the new "DIMM Flags" DSM relies on the -ENOTTY
return code to indicate that the flags are unimplimented and to fall
back to a safe default.  As is the -ENXIO error code erroneoously
indicates to fail enabling a BLK region.

Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
2015-07-10 13:50:50 -04:00
Dan Williams b1b2e6235a tools/testing/nvdimm: mock ioremap_wt
In the 4.2-rc1 merge the default_memremap_pmem() implementation switched
from ioremap_nocache() to ioremap_wt().  Add it to the list of mocked
routines to restore the ability to run the unit tests.

Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
2015-07-10 13:50:50 -04:00
Andy Lutomirski 5e5c684a2c x86/entry, selftests/x86: Add a test for 32-bit fast syscall arg faults
This test passes on 4.0 and fails on some newer kernels.
Fortunately, the failure is likely not a big deal.

This test will make sure that we don't break it further (e.g. OOPSing)
as we clean up the entry code and that we eventually fix the
regression.

There's arguably no need to preserve the old ABI here --
anything that makes it into a fast (vDSO) syscall with a bad
stack is about to crash no matter what we do.

Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com>
Cc: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@redhat.com>
Cc: Denys Vlasenko <vda.linux@googlemail.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/9cfcc51005168cb1b06b31991931214d770fc59a.1435952415.git.luto@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2015-07-07 10:58:30 +02:00
Linus Torvalds 88793e5c77 Merge tag 'libnvdimm-for-4.2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/djbw/nvdimm
Pull libnvdimm subsystem from Dan Williams:
 "The libnvdimm sub-system introduces, in addition to the
  libnvdimm-core, 4 drivers / enabling modules:

  NFIT:
    Instantiates an "nvdimm bus" with the core and registers memory
    devices (NVDIMMs) enumerated by the ACPI 6.0 NFIT (NVDIMM Firmware
    Interface table).

    After registering NVDIMMs the NFIT driver then registers "region"
    devices.  A libnvdimm-region defines an access mode and the
    boundaries of persistent memory media.  A region may span multiple
    NVDIMMs that are interleaved by the hardware memory controller.  In
    turn, a libnvdimm-region can be carved into a "namespace" device and
    bound to the PMEM or BLK driver which will attach a Linux block
    device (disk) interface to the memory.

  PMEM:
    Initially merged in v4.1 this driver for contiguous spans of
    persistent memory address ranges is re-worked to drive
    PMEM-namespaces emitted by the libnvdimm-core.

    In this update the PMEM driver, on x86, gains the ability to assert
    that writes to persistent memory have been flushed all the way
    through the caches and buffers in the platform to persistent media.
    See memcpy_to_pmem() and wmb_pmem().

  BLK:
    This new driver enables access to persistent memory media through
    "Block Data Windows" as defined by the NFIT.  The primary difference
    of this driver to PMEM is that only a small window of persistent
    memory is mapped into system address space at any given point in
    time.

    Per-NVDIMM windows are reprogrammed at run time, per-I/O, to access
    different portions of the media.  BLK-mode, by definition, does not
    support DAX.

  BTT:
    This is a library, optionally consumed by either PMEM or BLK, that
    converts a byte-accessible namespace into a disk with atomic sector
    update semantics (prevents sector tearing on crash or power loss).

    The sinister aspect of sector tearing is that most applications do
    not know they have a atomic sector dependency.  At least today's
    disk's rarely ever tear sectors and if they do one almost certainly
    gets a CRC error on access.  NVDIMMs will always tear and always
    silently.  Until an application is audited to be robust in the
    presence of sector-tearing the usage of BTT is recommended.

  Thanks to: Ross Zwisler, Jeff Moyer, Vishal Verma, Christoph Hellwig,
  Ingo Molnar, Neil Brown, Boaz Harrosh, Robert Elliott, Matthew Wilcox,
  Andy Rudoff, Linda Knippers, Toshi Kani, Nicholas Moulin, Rafael
  Wysocki, and Bob Moore"

* tag 'libnvdimm-for-4.2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/djbw/nvdimm: (33 commits)
  arch, x86: pmem api for ensuring durability of persistent memory updates
  libnvdimm: Add sysfs numa_node to NVDIMM devices
  libnvdimm: Set numa_node to NVDIMM devices
  acpi: Add acpi_map_pxm_to_online_node()
  libnvdimm, nfit: handle unarmed dimms, mark namespaces read-only
  pmem: flag pmem block devices as non-rotational
  libnvdimm: enable iostat
  pmem: make_request cleanups
  libnvdimm, pmem: fix up max_hw_sectors
  libnvdimm, blk: add support for blk integrity
  libnvdimm, btt: add support for blk integrity
  fs/block_dev.c: skip rw_page if bdev has integrity
  libnvdimm: Non-Volatile Devices
  tools/testing/nvdimm: libnvdimm unit test infrastructure
  libnvdimm, nfit, nd_blk: driver for BLK-mode access persistent memory
  nd_btt: atomic sector updates
  libnvdimm: infrastructure for btt devices
  libnvdimm: write blk label set
  libnvdimm: write pmem label set
  libnvdimm: blk labels and namespace instantiation
  ...
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