block: enable dax for raw block devices

If an application wants exclusive access to all of the persistent memory
provided by an NVDIMM namespace it can use this raw-block-dax facility
to forgo establishing a filesystem.  This capability is targeted
primarily to hypervisors wanting to provision persistent memory for
guests.  It can be disabled / enabled dynamically via the new BLKDAXSET
ioctl.

Cc: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Ross Zwisler <ross.zwisler@linux.intel.com>
Reported-by: kbuild test robot <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
This commit is contained in:
Dan Williams
2015-11-30 10:20:29 -08:00
parent 4ebb16ca9a
commit 5a023cdba5
4 changed files with 169 additions and 8 deletions

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@@ -152,6 +152,8 @@ struct inodes_stat_t {
#define BLKSECDISCARD _IO(0x12,125)
#define BLKROTATIONAL _IO(0x12,126)
#define BLKZEROOUT _IO(0x12,127)
#define BLKDAXSET _IO(0x12,128)
#define BLKDAXGET _IO(0x12,129)
#define BMAP_IOCTL 1 /* obsolete - kept for compatibility */
#define FIBMAP _IO(0x00,1) /* bmap access */