Re: [RFC v1 00/31] kunit: Introducing KUnit, the Linux kernel unit testing framework

2018-10-18 Thread Brendan Higgins
On Wed, Oct 17, 2018 at 8:55 PM Dan Williams wrote: > > ## More information on KUnit > > > > There is a bunch of documentation near the end of this patch set that > > describes how to use KUnit and best practices for writing unit tests. > > For convenience I am hosting the compiled docs here: > >

Re: Problems with VM_MIXEDMAP removal from /proc//smaps

2018-10-18 Thread Dave Chinner
On Thu, Oct 18, 2018 at 12:10:13PM -0700, Dan Williams wrote: > The only caveat to address all the use cases for applications making > decisions based on the presence of DAX And that's how we've got into this mess. Applications need to focus on the functionality they require, not the technology t

Re: [v3,1/2] powerpc/pseries: PAPR persistent memory support

2018-10-18 Thread Michael Ellerman
On Sun, 2018-10-14 at 23:18:27 UTC, Oliver O'Halloran wrote: > This patch implements support for discovering storage class memory > devices at boot and for handling hotplug of new regions via RTAS > hotplug events. > > Signed-off-by: Oliver O'Halloran Series applied to powerpc next, thanks. htt

Re: Problems with VM_MIXEDMAP removal from /proc//smaps

2018-10-18 Thread Dave Chinner
On Thu, Oct 18, 2018 at 04:55:55PM +0200, Jan Kara wrote: > On Thu 18-10-18 11:25:10, Dave Chinner wrote: > > On Wed, Oct 17, 2018 at 04:23:50PM -0400, Jeff Moyer wrote: > > > MAP_SYNC > > > - file system guarantees that metadata required to reach faulted-in file > > > data is consistent on media

Re: Problems with VM_MIXEDMAP removal from /proc//smaps

2018-10-18 Thread Jeff Moyer
Dave, Thanks for the detailed response! I hadn't considered the NOVA use case at all. Cheers, Jeff ___ Linux-nvdimm mailing list Linux-nvdimm@lists.01.org https://lists.01.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-nvdimm

Re: Problems with VM_MIXEDMAP removal from /proc//smaps

2018-10-18 Thread Dan Williams
On Thu, Oct 18, 2018 at 10:43 AM Jan Kara wrote: > > On Wed 17-10-18 13:01:15, Dan Williams wrote: > > On Sun, Oct 14, 2018 at 8:47 AM Dan Williams > > wrote: > > > > > > On Fri, Oct 5, 2018 at 6:17 PM Dan Williams > > > wrote: > > > > > > > > On Thu, Oct 4, 2018 at 11:35 PM Johannes Thumshirn

Re: Problems with VM_MIXEDMAP removal from /proc//smaps

2018-10-18 Thread Jan Kara
On Wed 17-10-18 13:01:15, Dan Williams wrote: > On Sun, Oct 14, 2018 at 8:47 AM Dan Williams wrote: > > > > On Fri, Oct 5, 2018 at 6:17 PM Dan Williams > > wrote: > > > > > > On Thu, Oct 4, 2018 at 11:35 PM Johannes Thumshirn > > > wrote: > > > > > > > > On Thu, Oct 04, 2018 at 11:25:24PM -070

Re: Problems with VM_MIXEDMAP removal from /proc//smaps

2018-10-18 Thread Jan Kara
On Thu 18-10-18 11:25:10, Dave Chinner wrote: > On Wed, Oct 17, 2018 at 04:23:50PM -0400, Jeff Moyer wrote: > > MAP_SYNC > > - file system guarantees that metadata required to reach faulted-in file > > data is consistent on media before a write fault is completed. A > > side-effect is that the