[PATCH] libnvdimm, namespace: make min namespace size 4K

From: Dan Williams
Date: Fri Feb 02 2018 - 03:39:48 EST


The arbitrary 4MB minimum namespace size turns out to be too large for
some environments. Quoting Cheng-mean Liu:

In the case of emulated NVDIMM devices in the VM environment, there
are scenarios that NVDIMM device with much smaller sizes are
desired, for example, we might use a single enumerated NVDIMM DAX
device for representing each container layer, which in some cases
could be just a few KBs size.

PAGE_SIZE is the minimum where we can still support DAX of at least
a single page.

Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Reported-by: Cheng-mean Liu <soccerl@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@xxxxxxxxx>
---
include/uapi/linux/ndctl.h | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/include/uapi/linux/ndctl.h b/include/uapi/linux/ndctl.h
index 30ef1236aafa..7e27070b9440 100644
--- a/include/uapi/linux/ndctl.h
+++ b/include/uapi/linux/ndctl.h
@@ -209,7 +209,7 @@ enum nd_driver_flags {
};

enum {
- ND_MIN_NAMESPACE_SIZE = 0x00400000,
+ ND_MIN_NAMESPACE_SIZE = PAGE_SIZE,
};

enum ars_masks {