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Tyler Hicks 2e5021cc42 libnvdimm/region: Allow setting align attribute on regions without mappings 
The alignment constraint for namespace creation in a region was
increased, from 2M to 16M, for non-PowerPC architectures in v5.7 with
commit 2522afb86a ("libnvdimm/region: Introduce an 'align'
attribute"). The thought behind the change was that region alignment
should be uniform across all architectures and, since PowerPC had the
largest alignment constraint of 16M, all architectures should conform to
that alignment.

The change regressed namespace creation in pre-defined regions that
relied on 2M alignment but a workaround was provided in the form of a
sysfs attribute, named 'align', that could be adjusted to a non-default
alignment value.

However, the sysfs attribute's store function returned an error (-ENXIO)
when userspace attempted to change the alignment of a region that had no
mappings. This affected 2M aligned regions of volatile memory that were
defined in a device tree using "pmem-region" and created by the
of_pmem_region_driver, since those regions do not contain mappings
(ndr_mappings is 0).

Allow userspace to set the align attribute on pre-existing regions that
do not have mappings so that namespaces can still be within those
regions, despite not being aligned to 16M.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/CA+CK2bDJ3hrWoE91L2wpAk+Yu0_=GtYw=4gLDDD7mxs321b_aA@mail.gmail.com
Fixes: 2522afb86a ("libnvdimm/region: Introduce an 'align' attribute")
Signed-off-by: Tyler Hicks <tyhicks@linux.microsoft.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220830054505.1159488-1-tyhicks@linux.microsoft.com
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
History 2022-09-29 17:22:30 -07:00
arch parisc: Allow CONFIG_64BIT with ARCH=parisc 2022-09-15 07:59:37 +02:00
block block-6.0-2022-09-16 2022-09-16 06:58:04 -07:00
certs Kbuild updates for v5.20 2022-08-10 10:40:41 -07:00
crypto crypto: blake2b: effectively disable frame size warning 2022-08-10 17:59:11 -07:00
Documentation Devicetree fixes for v6.0, take 2: 2022-09-14 10:22:39 +01:00
drivers libnvdimm/region: Allow setting align attribute on regions without mappings 2022-09-29 17:22:30 -07:00
fs four smb3 fixes for stable 2022-09-16 06:41:44 -07:00
include parisc architecture fixes for kernel v6.0-rc6: 2022-09-18 13:26:59 -07:00
init arm64 fixes for -rc3 2022-08-26 11:32:53 -07:00
io_uring io_uring-6.0-2022-09-18 2022-09-18 09:25:27 -07:00
ipc Updates to various subsystems which I help look after. lib, ocfs2, 2022-08-07 10:03:24 -07:00
kernel dma-mapping fixes for Linux 6.0 2022-09-10 12:18:19 -04:00
lib This push fixes a boot performance regression due to an unnecessary 2022-08-31 09:47:06 -07:00
LICENSES LICENSES/LGPL-2.1: Add LGPL-2.1-or-later as valid identifiers 2021-12-16 14:33:10 +01:00
mm mm: pagewalk: Fix race between unmap and page walker 2022-09-03 10:13:13 -07:00
net NFS client bugfixes for Linux 6.0 2022-09-12 17:53:46 -04:00
samples Tracing updates for 5.20 / 6.0 2022-08-05 09:41:12 -07:00
scripts Kbuild fixes for v6.0 (2nd) 2022-09-11 15:16:47 -04:00
security Landlock fix for v6.0-rc4 2022-09-02 15:24:08 -07:00
sound ASoC: Fixes for v6.0 2022-09-08 14:24:05 +02:00
tools parisc architecture fixes for kernel v6.0-rc6: 2022-09-18 13:26:59 -07:00
usr Not a lot of material this cycle. Many singleton patches against various 2022-05-27 11:22:03 -07:00
virt KVM: Drop unnecessary initialization of "ops" in kvm_ioctl_create_device() 2022-08-19 04:05:43 -04:00
.clang-format PCI/DOE: Add DOE mailbox support functions 2022-07-19 15:38:04 -07:00
.cocciconfig scripts: add Linux .cocciconfig for coccinelle 2016-07-22 12:13:39 +02:00
.get_maintainer.ignore get_maintainer: add Alan to .get_maintainer.ignore 2022-08-20 15:17:44 -07:00
.gitattributes .gitattributes: use 'dts' diff driver for dts files 2019-12-04 19:44:11 -08:00
.gitignore kbuild: split the second line of *.mod into *.usyms 2022-05-08 03:16:59 +09:00
.mailmap Devicetree fixes for v6.0, take 2: 2022-09-14 10:22:39 +01:00
COPYING COPYING: state that all contributions really are covered by this file 2020-02-10 13:32:20 -08:00
CREDITS drm for 5.20/6.0 2022-08-03 19:52:08 -07:00
Kbuild kbuild: rename hostprogs-y/always to hostprogs/always-y 2020-02-04 01:53:07 +09:00
Kconfig kbuild: ensure full rebuild when the compiler is updated 2020-05-12 13:28:33 +09:00
MAINTAINERS gpio fixes for v6.0-rc6 2022-09-16 12:58:17 -07:00
Makefile Linux 6.0-rc6 2022-09-18 13:44:14 -07:00
README Drop all 00-INDEX files from Documentation/ 2018-09-09 15:08:58 -06:00

README 

Linux kernel
============

There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.  The formatted documentation can also be read online at:

    https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/

There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.

Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.