[PATCH v2 0/2] fix cache mode tracking for pmem + dax
From: Dan Williams
Date: Wed Sep 07 2016 - 18:29:22 EST
While writing an improved changelog, as prompted by Andrew, for v1 of
"mm: fix cache mode of dax pmd mappings" [1], it struck me that
vmf_insert_pfn_pmd() is implemented correctly. Instead, it is the
memtype tree that is missing a memtype reservation for
devm_memremap_pages() ranges.
vmf_insert_pfn_pmd() is correct to validate the memtype before inserting
a mapping, but this highlights that vm_insert_mixed() is missing this
validation.
I would still like to take patch 1 through the nvdimm.git tree, with -mm
acks, along with the device-dax fixes for v4.8-rc6. Patch 2 can go the
typical -mm route for v4.9 since it has potential to change behavior in
its DRI usages, needs soak time in -next, and there no known memtype
conflict problems it would fix.
[1]: https://lists.01.org/pipermail/linux-nvdimm/2016-September/006781.html
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Dan Williams (2):
mm: fix cache mode of dax pmd mappings
mm: fix cache mode tracking in vm_insert_mixed()
arch/x86/mm/pat.c | 17 ++++++++++-------
kernel/memremap.c | 9 +++++++++
mm/memory.c | 8 ++++++--
3 files changed, 25 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)