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<title>lib/scatterlist: Introduce sgl_alloc() and sgl_free()</title>
<updated>2019-11-12T18:18:30Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Bart Van Assche</name>
<email>bart.vanassche@wdc.com</email>
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<published>2018-01-05T16:26:46Z</published>
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commit e80a0af4759a164214f02da157a3800753ce135f upstream.

Many kernel drivers contain code that allocates and frees both a
scatterlist and the pages that populate that scatterlist.
Introduce functions in lib/scatterlist.c that perform these tasks
instead of duplicating this functionality in multiple drivers.
Only include these functions in the build if CONFIG_SGL_ALLOC=y
to avoid that the kernel size increases if this functionality is
not used.

Signed-off-by: Bart Van Assche &lt;bart.vanassche@wdc.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Hannes Reinecke &lt;hare@suse.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Johannes Thumshirn &lt;jthumshirn@suse.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'zstd-minimal' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mason/linux-btrfs</title>
<updated>2017-09-15T00:30:49Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2017-09-15T00:30:49Z</published>
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Pull zstd support from Chris Mason:
 "Nick Terrell's patch series to add zstd support to the kernel has been
  floating around for a while. After talking with Dave Sterba, Herbert
  and Phillip, we decided to send the whole thing in as one pull
  request.

  zstd is a big win in speed over zlib and in compression ratio over
  lzo, and the compression team here at FB has gotten great results
  using it in production. Nick will continue to update the kernel side
  with new improvements from the open source zstd userland code.

  Nick has a number of benchmarks for the main zstd code in his lib/zstd
  commit:

      I ran the benchmarks on a Ubuntu 14.04 VM with 2 cores and 4 GiB
      of RAM. The VM is running on a MacBook Pro with a 3.1 GHz Intel
      Core i7 processor, 16 GB of RAM, and a SSD. I benchmarked using
      `silesia.tar` [3], which is 211,988,480 B large. Run the following
      commands for the benchmark:

        sudo modprobe zstd_compress_test
        sudo mknod zstd_compress_test c 245 0
        sudo cp silesia.tar zstd_compress_test

      The time is reported by the time of the userland `cp`.
      The MB/s is computed with

        1,536,217,008 B / time(buffer size, hash)

      which includes the time to copy from userland.
      The Adjusted MB/s is computed with

        1,536,217,088 B / (time(buffer size, hash) - time(buffer size, none)).

      The memory reported is the amount of memory the compressor
      requests.

        | Method   | Size (B) | Time (s) | Ratio | MB/s    | Adj MB/s | Mem (MB) |
        |----------|----------|----------|-------|---------|----------|----------|
        | none     | 11988480 |    0.100 |     1 | 2119.88 |        - |        - |
        | zstd -1  | 73645762 |    1.044 | 2.878 |  203.05 |   224.56 |     1.23 |
        | zstd -3  | 66988878 |    1.761 | 3.165 |  120.38 |   127.63 |     2.47 |
        | zstd -5  | 65001259 |    2.563 | 3.261 |   82.71 |    86.07 |     2.86 |
        | zstd -10 | 60165346 |   13.242 | 3.523 |   16.01 |    16.13 |    13.22 |
        | zstd -15 | 58009756 |   47.601 | 3.654 |    4.45 |     4.46 |    21.61 |
        | zstd -19 | 54014593 |  102.835 | 3.925 |    2.06 |     2.06 |    60.15 |
        | zlib -1  | 77260026 |    2.895 | 2.744 |   73.23 |    75.85 |     0.27 |
        | zlib -3  | 72972206 |    4.116 | 2.905 |   51.50 |    52.79 |     0.27 |
        | zlib -6  | 68190360 |    9.633 | 3.109 |   22.01 |    22.24 |     0.27 |
        | zlib -9  | 67613382 |   22.554 | 3.135 |    9.40 |     9.44 |     0.27 |

      I benchmarked zstd decompression using the same method on the same
      machine. The benchmark file is located in the upstream zstd repo
      under `contrib/linux-kernel/zstd_decompress_test.c` [4]. The
      memory reported is the amount of memory required to decompress
      data compressed with the given compression level. If you know the
      maximum size of your input, you can reduce the memory usage of
      decompression irrespective of the compression level.

        | Method   | Time (s) | MB/s    | Adjusted MB/s | Memory (MB) |
        |----------|----------|---------|---------------|-------------|
        | none     |    0.025 | 8479.54 |             - |           - |
        | zstd -1  |    0.358 |  592.15 |        636.60 |        0.84 |
        | zstd -3  |    0.396 |  535.32 |        571.40 |        1.46 |
        | zstd -5  |    0.396 |  535.32 |        571.40 |        1.46 |
        | zstd -10 |    0.374 |  566.81 |        607.42 |        2.51 |
        | zstd -15 |    0.379 |  559.34 |        598.84 |        4.61 |
        | zstd -19 |    0.412 |  514.54 |        547.77 |        8.80 |
        | zlib -1  |    0.940 |  225.52 |        231.68 |        0.04 |
        | zlib -3  |    0.883 |  240.08 |        247.07 |        0.04 |
        | zlib -6  |    0.844 |  251.17 |        258.84 |        0.04 |
        | zlib -9  |    0.837 |  253.27 |        287.64 |        0.04 |

  I ran a long series of tests and benchmarks on the btrfs side and the
  gains are very similar to the core benchmarks Nick ran"

* 'zstd-minimal' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mason/linux-btrfs:
  squashfs: Add zstd support
  btrfs: Add zstd support
  lib: Add zstd modules
  lib: Add xxhash module
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'libnvdimm-for-4.14' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/nvdimm/nvdimm</title>
<updated>2017-09-11T20:10:57Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2017-09-11T20:10:57Z</published>
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Pull libnvdimm from Dan Williams:
 "A rework of media error handling in the BTT driver and other updates.
  It has appeared in a few -next releases and collected some late-
  breaking build-error and warning fixups as a result.

  Summary:

   - Media error handling support in the Block Translation Table (BTT)
     driver is reworked to address sleeping-while-atomic locking and
     memory-allocation-context conflicts.

   - The dax_device lookup overhead for xfs and ext4 is moved out of the
     iomap hot-path to a mount-time lookup.

   - A new 'ecc_unit_size' sysfs attribute is added to advertise the
     read-modify-write boundary property of a persistent memory range.

   - Preparatory fix-ups for arm and powerpc pmem support are included
     along with other miscellaneous fixes"

* tag 'libnvdimm-for-4.14' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/nvdimm/nvdimm: (26 commits)
  libnvdimm, btt: fix format string warnings
  libnvdimm, btt: clean up warning and error messages
  ext4: fix null pointer dereference on sbi
  libnvdimm, nfit: move the check on nd_reserved2 to the endpoint
  dax: fix FS_DAX=n BLOCK=y compilation
  libnvdimm: fix integer overflow static analysis warning
  libnvdimm, nd_blk: remove mmio_flush_range()
  libnvdimm, btt: rework error clearing
  libnvdimm: fix potential deadlock while clearing errors
  libnvdimm, btt: cache sector_size in arena_info
  libnvdimm, btt: ensure that flags were also unchanged during a map_read
  libnvdimm, btt: refactor map entry operations with macros
  libnvdimm, btt: fix a missed NVDIMM_IO_ATOMIC case in the write path
  libnvdimm, nfit: export an 'ecc_unit_size' sysfs attribute
  ext4: perform dax_device lookup at mount
  ext2: perform dax_device lookup at mount
  xfs: perform dax_device lookup at mount
  dax: introduce a fs_dax_get_by_bdev() helper
  libnvdimm, btt: check memory allocation failure
  libnvdimm, label: fix index block size calculation
  ...
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<entry>
<title>lib/string.c: add testcases for memset16/32/64</title>
<updated>2017-09-09T01:26:48Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Matthew Wilcox</name>
<email>mawilcox@microsoft.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-09-08T23:13:52Z</published>
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[akpm@linux-foundation.org: minor tweaks]
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170720184539.31609-3-willy@infradead.org
Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox &lt;mawilcox@microsoft.com&gt;
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
Cc: "James E.J. Bottomley" &lt;jejb@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: "Martin K. Petersen" &lt;martin.petersen@oracle.com&gt;
Cc: David Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@elte.hu&gt;
Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky &lt;ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru&gt;
Cc: Matt Turner &lt;mattst88@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Cc: Minchan Kim &lt;minchan@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Ralf Baechle &lt;ralf@linux-mips.org&gt;
Cc: Richard Henderson &lt;rth@twiddle.net&gt;
Cc: Russell King &lt;rmk+kernel@armlinux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Sam Ravnborg &lt;sam@ravnborg.org&gt;
Cc: Sergey Senozhatsky &lt;sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>libnvdimm, nd_blk: remove mmio_flush_range()</title>
<updated>2017-08-31T22:05:10Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Robin Murphy</name>
<email>robin.murphy@arm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-08-31T11:27:09Z</published>
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mmio_flush_range() suffers from a lack of clearly-defined semantics,
and is somewhat ambiguous to port to other architectures where the
scope of the writeback implied by "flush" and ordering might matter,
but MMIO would tend to imply non-cacheable anyway. Per the rationale
in 67a3e8fe9015 ("nd_blk: change aperture mapping from WC to WB"), the
only existing use is actually to invalidate clean cache lines for
ARCH_MEMREMAP_PMEM type mappings *without* writeback. Since the recent
cleanup of the pmem API, that also now happens to be the exact purpose
of arch_invalidate_pmem(), which would be a far more well-defined tool
for the job.

Rather than risk potentially inconsistent implementations of
mmio_flush_range() for the sake of one callsite, streamline things by
removing it entirely and instead move the ARCH_MEMREMAP_PMEM related
definitions up to the libnvdimm level, so they can be shared by NFIT
as well. This allows NFIT to be enabled for arm64.

Signed-off-by: Robin Murphy &lt;robin.murphy@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams &lt;dan.j.williams@intel.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>lib: Add zstd modules</title>
<updated>2017-08-15T16:02:08Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Nick Terrell</name>
<email>terrelln@fb.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-08-10T02:35:53Z</published>
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Add zstd compression and decompression kernel modules.
zstd offers a wide varity of compression speed and quality trade-offs.
It can compress at speeds approaching lz4, and quality approaching lzma.
zstd decompressions at speeds more than twice as fast as zlib, and
decompression speed remains roughly the same across all compression levels.

The code was ported from the upstream zstd source repository. The
`linux/zstd.h` header was modified to match linux kernel style.
The cross-platform and allocation code was stripped out. Instead zstd
requires the caller to pass a preallocated workspace. The source files
were clang-formatted [1] to match the Linux Kernel style as much as
possible. Otherwise, the code was unmodified. We would like to avoid
as much further manual modification to the source code as possible, so it
will be easier to keep the kernel zstd up to date.

I benchmarked zstd compression as a special character device. I ran zstd
and zlib compression at several levels, as well as performing no
compression, which measure the time spent copying the data to kernel space.
Data is passed to the compresser 4096 B at a time. The benchmark file is
located in the upstream zstd source repository under
`contrib/linux-kernel/zstd_compress_test.c` [2].

I ran the benchmarks on a Ubuntu 14.04 VM with 2 cores and 4 GiB of RAM.
The VM is running on a MacBook Pro with a 3.1 GHz Intel Core i7 processor,
16 GB of RAM, and a SSD. I benchmarked using `silesia.tar` [3], which is
211,988,480 B large. Run the following commands for the benchmark:

    sudo modprobe zstd_compress_test
    sudo mknod zstd_compress_test c 245 0
    sudo cp silesia.tar zstd_compress_test

The time is reported by the time of the userland `cp`.
The MB/s is computed with

    1,536,217,008 B / time(buffer size, hash)

which includes the time to copy from userland.
The Adjusted MB/s is computed with

    1,536,217,088 B / (time(buffer size, hash) - time(buffer size, none)).

The memory reported is the amount of memory the compressor requests.

| Method   | Size (B) | Time (s) | Ratio | MB/s    | Adj MB/s | Mem (MB) |
|----------|----------|----------|-------|---------|----------|----------|
| none     | 11988480 |    0.100 |     1 | 2119.88 |        - |        - |
| zstd -1  | 73645762 |    1.044 | 2.878 |  203.05 |   224.56 |     1.23 |
| zstd -3  | 66988878 |    1.761 | 3.165 |  120.38 |   127.63 |     2.47 |
| zstd -5  | 65001259 |    2.563 | 3.261 |   82.71 |    86.07 |     2.86 |
| zstd -10 | 60165346 |   13.242 | 3.523 |   16.01 |    16.13 |    13.22 |
| zstd -15 | 58009756 |   47.601 | 3.654 |    4.45 |     4.46 |    21.61 |
| zstd -19 | 54014593 |  102.835 | 3.925 |    2.06 |     2.06 |    60.15 |
| zlib -1  | 77260026 |    2.895 | 2.744 |   73.23 |    75.85 |     0.27 |
| zlib -3  | 72972206 |    4.116 | 2.905 |   51.50 |    52.79 |     0.27 |
| zlib -6  | 68190360 |    9.633 | 3.109 |   22.01 |    22.24 |     0.27 |
| zlib -9  | 67613382 |   22.554 | 3.135 |    9.40 |     9.44 |     0.27 |

I benchmarked zstd decompression using the same method on the same machine.
The benchmark file is located in the upstream zstd repo under
`contrib/linux-kernel/zstd_decompress_test.c` [4]. The memory reported is
the amount of memory required to decompress data compressed with the given
compression level. If you know the maximum size of your input, you can
reduce the memory usage of decompression irrespective of the compression
level.

| Method   | Time (s) | MB/s    | Adjusted MB/s | Memory (MB) |
|----------|----------|---------|---------------|-------------|
| none     |    0.025 | 8479.54 |             - |           - |
| zstd -1  |    0.358 |  592.15 |        636.60 |        0.84 |
| zstd -3  |    0.396 |  535.32 |        571.40 |        1.46 |
| zstd -5  |    0.396 |  535.32 |        571.40 |        1.46 |
| zstd -10 |    0.374 |  566.81 |        607.42 |        2.51 |
| zstd -15 |    0.379 |  559.34 |        598.84 |        4.61 |
| zstd -19 |    0.412 |  514.54 |        547.77 |        8.80 |
| zlib -1  |    0.940 |  225.52 |        231.68 |        0.04 |
| zlib -3  |    0.883 |  240.08 |        247.07 |        0.04 |
| zlib -6  |    0.844 |  251.17 |        258.84 |        0.04 |
| zlib -9  |    0.837 |  253.27 |        287.64 |        0.04 |

Tested in userland using the test-suite in the zstd repo under
`contrib/linux-kernel/test/UserlandTest.cpp` [5] by mocking the kernel
functions. Fuzz tested using libfuzzer [6] with the fuzz harnesses under
`contrib/linux-kernel/test/{RoundTripCrash.c,DecompressCrash.c}` [7] [8]
with ASAN, UBSAN, and MSAN. Additionaly, it was tested while testing the
BtrFS and SquashFS patches coming next.

[1] https://clang.llvm.org/docs/ClangFormat.html
[2] https://github.com/facebook/zstd/blob/dev/contrib/linux-kernel/zstd_compress_test.c
[3] http://sun.aei.polsl.pl/~sdeor/index.php?page=silesia
[4] https://github.com/facebook/zstd/blob/dev/contrib/linux-kernel/zstd_decompress_test.c
[5] https://github.com/facebook/zstd/blob/dev/contrib/linux-kernel/test/UserlandTest.cpp
[6] http://llvm.org/docs/LibFuzzer.html
[7] https://github.com/facebook/zstd/blob/dev/contrib/linux-kernel/test/RoundTripCrash.c
[8] https://github.com/facebook/zstd/blob/dev/contrib/linux-kernel/test/DecompressCrash.c

zstd source repository: https://github.com/facebook/zstd

Signed-off-by: Nick Terrell &lt;terrelln@fb.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Chris Mason &lt;clm@fb.com&gt;
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>lib: Add xxhash module</title>
<updated>2017-08-15T16:02:07Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Nick Terrell</name>
<email>terrelln@fb.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-08-04T20:19:17Z</published>
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Adds xxhash kernel module with xxh32 and xxh64 hashes. xxhash is an
extremely fast non-cryptographic hash algorithm for checksumming.
The zstd compression and decompression modules added in the next patch
require xxhash. I extracted it out from zstd since it is useful on its
own. I copied the code from the upstream XXHash source repository and
translated it into kernel style. I ran benchmarks and tests in the kernel
and tests in userland.

I benchmarked xxhash as a special character device. I ran in four modes,
no-op, xxh32, xxh64, and crc32. The no-op mode simply copies the data to
kernel space and ignores it. The xxh32, xxh64, and crc32 modes compute
hashes on the copied data. I also ran it with four different buffer sizes.
The benchmark file is located in the upstream zstd source repository under
`contrib/linux-kernel/xxhash_test.c` [1].

I ran the benchmarks on a Ubuntu 14.04 VM with 2 cores and 4 GiB of RAM.
The VM is running on a MacBook Pro with a 3.1 GHz Intel Core i7 processor,
16 GB of RAM, and a SSD. I benchmarked using the file `filesystem.squashfs`
from `ubuntu-16.10-desktop-amd64.iso`, which is 1,536,217,088 B large.
Run the following commands for the benchmark:

    modprobe xxhash_test
    mknod xxhash_test c 245 0
    time cp filesystem.squashfs xxhash_test

The time is reported by the time of the userland `cp`.
The GB/s is computed with

    1,536,217,008 B / time(buffer size, hash)

which includes the time to copy from userland.
The Normalized GB/s is computed with

    1,536,217,088 B / (time(buffer size, hash) - time(buffer size, none)).

| Buffer Size (B) | Hash  | Time (s) | GB/s | Adjusted GB/s |
|-----------------|-------|----------|------|---------------|
|            1024 | none  |    0.408 | 3.77 |             - |
|            1024 | xxh32 |    0.649 | 2.37 |          6.37 |
|            1024 | xxh64 |    0.542 | 2.83 |         11.46 |
|            1024 | crc32 |    1.290 | 1.19 |          1.74 |
|            4096 | none  |    0.380 | 4.04 |             - |
|            4096 | xxh32 |    0.645 | 2.38 |          5.79 |
|            4096 | xxh64 |    0.500 | 3.07 |         12.80 |
|            4096 | crc32 |    1.168 | 1.32 |          1.95 |
|            8192 | none  |    0.351 | 4.38 |             - |
|            8192 | xxh32 |    0.614 | 2.50 |          5.84 |
|            8192 | xxh64 |    0.464 | 3.31 |         13.60 |
|            8192 | crc32 |    1.163 | 1.32 |          1.89 |
|           16384 | none  |    0.346 | 4.43 |             - |
|           16384 | xxh32 |    0.590 | 2.60 |          6.30 |
|           16384 | xxh64 |    0.466 | 3.30 |         12.80 |
|           16384 | crc32 |    1.183 | 1.30 |          1.84 |

Tested in userland using the test-suite in the zstd repo under
`contrib/linux-kernel/test/XXHashUserlandTest.cpp` [2] by mocking the
kernel functions. A line in each branch of every function in `xxhash.c`
was commented out to ensure that the test-suite fails. Additionally
tested while testing zstd and with SMHasher [3].

[1] https://phabricator.intern.facebook.com/P57526246
[2] https://github.com/facebook/zstd/blob/dev/contrib/linux-kernel/test/XXHashUserlandTest.cpp
[3] https://github.com/aappleby/smhasher

zstd source repository: https://github.com/facebook/zstd
XXHash source repository: https://github.com/cyan4973/xxhash

Signed-off-by: Nick Terrell &lt;terrelln@fb.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Chris Mason &lt;clm@fb.com&gt;
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'libnvdimm-for-4.13' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/nvdimm/nvdimm</title>
<updated>2017-07-07T16:44:06Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2017-07-07T16:44:06Z</published>
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Pull libnvdimm updates from Dan Williams:
 "libnvdimm updates for the latest ACPI and UEFI specifications. This
  pull request also includes new 'struct dax_operations' enabling to
  undo the abuse of copy_user_nocache() for copy operations to pmem.

  The dax work originally missed 4.12 to address concerns raised by Al.

  Summary:

   - 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 -&gt;copy_from_iter() and -&gt;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") was reviewed by Toshi Kani
  &lt;toshi.kani@hpe.com&gt;"

* tag 'libnvdimm-for-4.13' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/nvdimm/nvdimm: (42 commits)
  libnvdimm, namespace: record 'lbasize' for pmem namespaces
  acpi/nfit: Issue Start ARS to retrieve existing records
  libnvdimm: New ACPI 6.2 DSM functions
  acpi, nfit: Show bus_dsm_mask in sysfs
  libnvdimm, acpi, nfit: Add bus level dsm mask for pass thru.
  acpi, nfit: Enable DSM pass thru for root functions.
  libnvdimm: passthru functions clear to send
  libnvdimm, btt: convert some info messages to warn/err
  libnvdimm, region, pmem: fix 'badblocks' sysfs_get_dirent() reference lifetime
  libnvdimm: fix the clear-error check in nsio_rw_bytes
  libnvdimm, btt: fix btt_rw_page not returning errors
  acpi, nfit: quiet invalid block-aperture-region warnings
  libnvdimm, btt: BTT updates for UEFI 2.7 format
  acpi, nfit: constify *_attribute_group
  libnvdimm, pmem: disable dax flushing when pmem is fronting a volatile region
  libnvdimm, pmem, dax: export a cache control attribute
  dax: convert to bitmask for flags
  dax: remove default copy_from_iter fallback
  libnvdimm, nfit: enable support for volatile ranges
  libnvdimm, pmem: fix persistence warning
  ...
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<entry>
<title>x86, uaccess: introduce copy_from_iter_flushcache for pmem / cache-bypass operations</title>
<updated>2017-06-09T16:09:56Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Dan Williams</name>
<email>dan.j.williams@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-05-29T19:22:50Z</published>
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The pmem driver has a need to transfer data with a persistent memory
destination and be able to rely on the fact that the destination writes are not
cached. It is sufficient for the writes to be flushed to a cpu-store-buffer
(non-temporal / "movnt" in x86 terms), as we expect userspace to call fsync()
to ensure data-writes have reached a power-fail-safe zone in the platform. The
fsync() triggers a REQ_FUA or REQ_FLUSH to the pmem driver which will turn
around and fence previous writes with an "sfence".

Implement a __copy_from_user_inatomic_flushcache, memcpy_page_flushcache, and
memcpy_flushcache, that guarantee that the destination buffer is not dirty in
the cpu cache on completion. The new copy_from_iter_flushcache and sub-routines
will be used to replace the "pmem api" (include/linux/pmem.h +
arch/x86/include/asm/pmem.h). The availability of copy_from_iter_flushcache()
and memcpy_flushcache() are gated by the CONFIG_ARCH_HAS_UACCESS_FLUSHCACHE
config symbol, and fallback to copy_from_iter_nocache() and plain memcpy()
otherwise.

This is meant to satisfy the concern from Linus that if a driver wants to do
something beyond the normal nocache semantics it should be something private to
that driver [1], and Al's concern that anything uaccess related belongs with
the rest of the uaccess code [2].

The first consumer of this interface is a new 'copy_from_iter' dax operation so
that pmem can inject cache maintenance operations without imposing this
overhead on other dax-capable drivers.

[1]: https://lists.01.org/pipermail/linux-nvdimm/2017-January/008364.html
[2]: https://lists.01.org/pipermail/linux-nvdimm/2017-April/009942.html

Cc: &lt;x86@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
Cc: Jeff Moyer &lt;jmoyer@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Cc: Toshi Kani &lt;toshi.kani@hpe.com&gt;
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
Cc: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Matthew Wilcox &lt;mawilcox@microsoft.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Ross Zwisler &lt;ross.zwisler@linux.intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams &lt;dan.j.williams@intel.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>lib: Add crc4 module</title>
<updated>2017-06-09T09:52:07Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Jeremy Kerr</name>
<email>jk@ozlabs.org</email>
</author>
<published>2017-06-06T21:08:39Z</published>
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Add a little helper for crc4 calculations. This works 4-bits-at-a-time,
using a simple table approach.

We will need this in the FSI core code, as well as any master
implementations that need to calculate CRCs in software.

Signed-off-by: Jeremy Kerr &lt;jk@ozlabs.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Chris Bostic &lt;cbostic@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Joel Stanley &lt;joel@jms.id.au&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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