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authorDan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>2016-03-11 10:15:36 -0800
committerDan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>2016-05-09 15:35:42 -0700
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libnvdimm, dax: introduce device-dax infrastructure
Device DAX is the device-centric analogue of Filesystem DAX (CONFIG_FS_DAX). It allows persistent memory ranges to be allocated and mapped without need of an intervening file system. This initial infrastructure arranges for a libnvdimm pfn-device to be represented as a different device-type so that it can be attached to a driver other than the pmem driver. Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
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diff --git a/drivers/nvdimm/Kconfig b/drivers/nvdimm/Kconfig
index 53c11621d5b1..7c8a3bf07884 100644
--- a/drivers/nvdimm/Kconfig
+++ b/drivers/nvdimm/Kconfig
@@ -88,4 +88,17 @@ config NVDIMM_PFN
Select Y if unsure
+config NVDIMM_DAX
+ bool "NVDIMM DAX: Raw access to persistent memory"
+ default LIBNVDIMM
+ depends on NVDIMM_PFN
+ help
+ Support raw device dax access to a persistent memory
+ namespace. For environments that want to hard partition
+ peristent memory, this capability provides a mechanism to
+ sub-divide a namespace into character devices that can only be
+ accessed via DAX (mmap(2)).
+
+ Select Y if unsure
+
endif