Re: [Linux-nvdimm] [GIT PULL] PMEM driver for v4.1

From: Matthew Wilcox
Date: Mon May 25 2015 - 14:17:02 EST


On Mon, Apr 13, 2015 at 11:33:09AM +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> Please pull the latest x86-pmem-for-linus git tree from:
>
> git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip.git x86-pmem-for-linus
>
> # HEAD: 4c1eaa2344fb26bb5e936fb4d8ee307343ea0089 drivers/block/pmem: Fix 32-bit build warning in pmem_alloc()
>
> This is the initial support for the pmem block device driver:
> persistent non-volatile memory space mapped into the system's physical
> memory space as large physical memory regions.

Ingo, this sucks. You collapsed all of the separate patches into a
single "add new driver" patch, which makes it impossible to bisect which
of the recent changes broke xfstests. Please don't do this again.

> ------------------>
> Christoph Hellwig (1):
> x86/mm: Add support for the non-standard protected e820 type
>
> Ingo Molnar (1):
> drivers/block/pmem: Fix 32-bit build warning in pmem_alloc()
>
> Ross Zwisler (1):
> drivers/block/pmem: Add a driver for persistent memory

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