Re: [GIT PULL] device-dax for 5.1: PMEM as RAM
On Sun, Mar 10, 2019 at 12:54 PM Dan Williams <dan.j.williams(a)intel.com> wrote:
Hi Linus, please pull from:
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/nvdimm/nvdimm
tags/devdax-for-5.1
...to receive new device-dax infrastructure to allow persistent memory
and other "reserved" / performance differentiated memories, to be
assigned to the core-mm as "System RAM".
I'm not pulling this until I get official Intel clarification on the
whole "pmem vs rep movs vs machine check" behavior.
Last I saw it was deadly and didn't work, and we have a whole "mc-safe
memory copy" thing for it in the kernel because repeat string
instructions didn't work correctly on nvmem.
No way am I exposing any users to something like that.
We need a way to know when it works and when it doesn't, and only do
it when it's safe.
Linus