libnvdimm for 4.13
* Introduce the _flushcache() family of memory copy helpers and use them
for persistent memory write operations on x86. The _flushcache()
semantic indicates that the cache is either bypassed for the copy
operation (movnt) or any lines dirtied by the copy operation are
written back (clwb, clflushopt, or clflush).
* Extend dax_operations with ->copy_from_iter() and ->flush()
operations. These operations and other infrastructure updates allow
all persistent memory specific dax functionality to be pushed into
libnvdimm and the pmem driver directly. It also allows dax-specific
sysfs attributes to be linked to a host device, for example:
/sys/block/pmem0/dax/write_cache
* Add support for the new NVDIMM platform/firmware mechanisms introduced
in ACPI 6.2 and UEFI 2.7. This support includes the v1.2 namespace
label format, extensions to the address-range-scrub command set, new
error injection commands, and a new BTT (block-translation-table)
layout. These updates support inter-OS and pre-OS compatibility.
* Fix a longstanding memory corruption bug in nfit_test.
* Make the pmem and nvdimm-region 'badblocks' sysfs files poll(2)
capable.
* Miscellaneous fixes and small updates across libnvdimm and the nfit
driver.
Acknowledgements that came after the branch was pushed:
commit 6aa734a2f38e "libnvdimm, region, pmem: fix 'badblocks'
sysfs_get_dirent() reference lifetime"
Reviewed-by: Toshi Kani <toshi.kani@hpe.com>