This release incorporates functionality up to the 5.3 kernel, and adds a
number of bug fixes, and improvements.
Highlights include a new command to reconfigure dax devices to
different modes (devdax - default, and system-ram - to hotplug the dax
device as system memory), improvements to ndctl-{read,write,init}-labels
allowing smaller sized reads/writes, usability fixes to ndctl-monitor,
and ndctl-create-namespace, and a fix to ndctl-check-namespace allowing
it to be used on systems with different page sizes.
Shortlog for this release:
Alison Schofield (2):
ndctl, test: handle backup_keys in security.sh
ndctl, test: move security.sh to the destructive test list
Dan Williams (14):
ndctl/dimm: Add 'flags' field to read-labels output
ndctl/dimm: Add --human support to read-labels
ndctl/build: Drop -Wpointer-arith
ndctl/namespace: Handle 'create-namespace' in label-less mode
ndctl/dimm: Fix init-labels success reporting
ndctl/test: Fix device-dax bus-model detection
ndctl/monitor: Allow monitor to be manually moved to the background
ndctl/dimm: Support small label reads/writes
ndctl/dimm: Minimize data-transfer for init-labels
ndctl/dimm: Add offset and size options to {read, write, zero}-labels
ndctl/dimm: Limit read-labels with --index option
ndctl/namespace: Minimize label data transfer for autolabel
ndctl/namespace: Continue region search on 'missing seed' event
ndctl/namespace: Report ENOSPC when regions are full
Vaibhav Jain (1):
ndctl, check: Ensure mmap of BTT sections work with 64K page-sizes
Vishal Verma (17):
libndctl/inject: Refuse error injection for BTT namespaces
Documentation/ndctl: fix a typo in ndctl(1)
ndctl/monitor: make the daemon exit message 'info' level
libdaxctl: add interfaces to get ctx and check device state
libdaxctl: add interfaces to enable/disable devices
libdaxctl: add an interface to retrieve the device resource
libdaxctl: add a 'daxctl_memory' object for memory based operations
daxctl/list: add target_node for device listings
daxctl/list: display the mode for a dax device
daxctl: add a new reconfigure-device command
Documentation/daxctl: add a man page for daxctl-reconfigure-device
daxctl: add commands to online and offline memory
Documentation: Add man pages for daxctl-{on,off}line-memory
contrib/ndctl: fix region-id completions for daxctl
contrib/ndctl: add bash-completion for the new daxctl commands
test: Add a unit test for daxctl-reconfigure-device and friends
ndctl: release v66
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