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2017-07-18	device-dax: fix sysfs duplicate warnings	Dan Williams	1	-1/+1
	Fix warnings of the form... WARNING: CPU: 10 PID: 4983 at fs/sysfs/dir.c:31 sysfs_warn_dup+0x62/0x80 sysfs: cannot create duplicate filename '/class/dax/dax12.0' Call Trace: dump_stack+0x63/0x86 __warn+0xcb/0xf0 warn_slowpath_fmt+0x5a/0x80 ? kernfs_path_from_node+0x4f/0x60 sysfs_warn_dup+0x62/0x80 sysfs_do_create_link_sd.isra.2+0x97/0xb0 sysfs_create_link+0x25/0x40 device_add+0x266/0x630 devm_create_dax_dev+0x2cf/0x340 [dax] dax_pmem_probe+0x1f5/0x26e [dax_pmem] nvdimm_bus_probe+0x71/0x120 ...by reusing the namespace id for the device-dax instance name. Now that we have decided that there will never by more than one device-dax instance per libnvdimm-namespace parent device [1], we can directly reuse the namepace ids. There are some possible follow-on cleanups, but those are saved for a later patch to simplify the -stable backport. [1]: https://lists.01.org/pipermail/linux-nvdimm/2016-December/008266.html Fixes: 98a29c39dc68 ("libnvdimm, namespace: allow creation of multiple pmem...") Cc: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> Reported-by: Dariusz Dokupil <dariusz.dokupil@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
2017-04-12	dax: refactor dax-fs into a generic provider of 'struct dax_device' instances	Dan Williams	1	-0/+25
	We want dax capable drivers to be able to publish a set of dax operations [1]. However, we do not want to further abuse block_devices to advertise these operations. Instead we will attach these operations to a dax device and add a lookup mechanism to go from block device path to a dax device. A dax capable driver like pmem or brd is responsible for registering a dax device, alongside a block device, and then a dax capable filesystem is responsible for retrieving the dax device by path name if it wants to call dax_operations. For now, we refactor the dax pseudo-fs to be a generic facility, rather than an implementation detail, of the device-dax use case. Where a "dax device" is just an inode + dax infrastructure, and "Device DAX" is a mapping service layered on top of that base 'struct dax_device'. "Filesystem DAX" is then a mapping service that layers a filesystem on top of that same base device. Filesystem DAX is associated with a block_device for now, but perhaps directly to a dax device in the future, or for new pmem-only filesystems. [1]: https://lkml.org/lkml/2017/1/19/880 Suggested-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>