Merge tag 'libnvdimm-for-5.7' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/nvdimm/nvdimm

Pull libnvdimm and dax updates from Dan Williams:
 "There were multiple touches outside of drivers/nvdimm/ this round to
  add cross arch compatibility to the devm_memremap_pages() interface,
  enhance numa information for persistent memory ranges, and add a
  zero_page_range() dax operation.

  This cycle I switched from the patchwork api to Konstantin's b4 script
  for collecting tags (from x86, PowerPC, filesystem, and device-mapper
  folks), and everything looks to have gone ok there. This has all
  appeared in -next with no reported issues.

  Summary:

   - Add support for region alignment configuration and enforcement to
     fix compatibility across architectures and PowerPC page size
     configurations.

   - Introduce 'zero_page_range' as a dax operation. This facilitates
     filesystem-dax operation without a block-device.

   - Introduce phys_to_target_node() to facilitate drivers that want to
     know resulting numa node if a given reserved address range was
     onlined.

   - Advertise a persistence-domain for of_pmem and papr_scm. The
     persistence domain indicates where cpu-store cycles need to reach
     in the platform-memory subsystem before the platform will consider
     them power-fail protected.

   - Promote numa_map_to_online_node() to a cross-kernel generic
     facility.

   - Save x86 numa information to allow for node-id lookups for reserved
     memory ranges, deploy that capability for the e820-pmem driver.

   - Pick up some miscellaneous minor fixes, that missed v5.6-final,
     including a some smatch reports in the ioctl path and some unit
     test compilation fixups.

   - Fixup some flexible-array declarations"

* tag 'libnvdimm-for-5.7' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/nvdimm/nvdimm: (29 commits)
  dax: Move mandatory ->zero_page_range() check in alloc_dax()
  dax,iomap: Add helper dax_iomap_zero() to zero a range
  dax: Use new dax zero page method for zeroing a page
  dm,dax: Add dax zero_page_range operation
  s390,dcssblk,dax: Add dax zero_page_range operation to dcssblk driver
  dax, pmem: Add a dax operation zero_page_range
  pmem: Add functions for reading/writing page to/from pmem
  libnvdimm: Update persistence domain value for of_pmem and papr_scm device
  tools/test/nvdimm: Fix out of tree build
  libnvdimm/region: Fix build error
  libnvdimm/region: Replace zero-length array with flexible-array member
  libnvdimm/label: Replace zero-length array with flexible-array member
  ACPI: NFIT: Replace zero-length array with flexible-array member
  libnvdimm/region: Introduce an 'align' attribute
  libnvdimm/region: Introduce NDD_LABELING
  libnvdimm/namespace: Enforce memremap_compat_align()
  libnvdimm/pfn: Prevent raw mode fallback if pfn-infoblock valid
  libnvdimm: Out of bounds read in __nd_ioctl()
  acpi/nfit: improve bounds checking for 'func'
  mm/memremap_pages: Introduce memremap_compat_align()
  ...

1 files changed, 12 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/drivers/nvdimm/pfn.h b/drivers/nvdimm/pfn.h
index acb19517f678..37cb1b8a2a39 100644
--- a/drivers/nvdimm/pfn.h
+++ b/drivers/nvdimm/pfn.h
@@ -24,6 +24,18 @@ struct nd_pfn_sb {
 	__le64 npfns;
 	__le32 mode;
 	/* minor-version-1 additions for section alignment */
+	/**
+	 * @start_pad: Deprecated attribute to pad start-misaligned namespaces
+	 *
+	 * start_pad is deprecated because the original definition did
+	 * not comprehend that dataoff is relative to the base address
+	 * of the namespace not the start_pad adjusted base. The result
+	 * is that the dax path is broken, but the block-I/O path is
+	 * not. The kernel will no longer create namespaces using start
+	 * padding, but it still supports block-I/O for legacy
+	 * configurations mainly to allow a backup, reconfigure the
+	 * namespace, and restore flow to repair dax operation.
+	 */
 	__le32 start_pad;
 	__le32 end_trunc;
 	/* minor-version-2 record the base alignment of the mapping */