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    mm, dax, pmem: introduce pfn_t · 34c0fd54
    Dan Williams 提交于
    For the purpose of communicating the optional presence of a 'struct
    page' for the pfn returned from ->direct_access(), introduce a type that
    encapsulates a page-frame-number plus flags.  These flags contain the
    historical "page_link" encoding for a scatterlist entry, but can also
    denote "device memory".  Where "device memory" is a set of pfns that are
    not part of the kernel's linear mapping by default, but are accessed via
    the same memory controller as ram.
    
    The motivation for this new type is large capacity persistent memory
    that needs struct page entries in the 'memmap' to support 3rd party DMA
    (i.e.  O_DIRECT I/O with a persistent memory source/target).  However,
    we also need it in support of maintaining a list of mapped inodes which
    need to be unmapped at driver teardown or freeze_bdev() time.
    Signed-off-by: NDan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
    Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
    Cc: Dave Hansen <dave@sr71.net>
    Cc: Ross Zwisler <ross.zwisler@linux.intel.com>
    Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
    Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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