device-dax: Add a driver for "hmem" devices
authorDan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Thu, 7 Nov 2019 01:43:43 +0000 (17:43 -0800)
committerRafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
Thu, 7 Nov 2019 14:45:00 +0000 (15:45 +0100)
commita6c7f4c6aea5f4ca6056b06cec7ebd79f8c23e33
treec942e9a1b25e2cf4b47a233ef22e4badebcd86c7
parent460370ab20b6cc174256e46e192adf01e730faf6
device-dax: Add a driver for "hmem" devices

Platform firmware like EFI/ACPI may publish "hmem" platform devices.
Such a device is a performance differentiated memory range likely
reserved for an application specific use case. The driver gives access
to 100% of the capacity via a device-dax mmap instance by default.

However, if over-subscription and other kernel memory management is
desired the resulting dax device can be assigned to the core-mm via the
kmem driver.

This consumes "hmem" devices the producer of "hmem" devices is saved for
a follow-on patch so that it can reference the new CONFIG_DEV_DAX_HMEM
symbol to gate performing the enumeration work.

Reported-by: kbuild test robot <lkp@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
drivers/dax/Kconfig
drivers/dax/Makefile
drivers/dax/hmem.c [new file with mode: 0644]
include/linux/memregion.h