Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v13 2/7] virtio-pmem: Add virtio pmem driver

[Pankaj Gupta]

> 
> > This patch adds virtio-pmem driver for KVM guest.
> > 
> > Guest reads the persistent memory range information from
> > Qemu over VIRTIO and registers it on nvdimm_bus. It also
> > creates a nd_region object with the persistent memory
> > range information so that existing 'nvdimm/pmem' driver
> > can reserve this into system memory map. This way
> > 'virtio-pmem' driver uses existing functionality of pmem
> > driver to register persistent memory compatible for DAX
> > capable filesystems.
> > 
> > This also provides function to perform guest flush over
> > VIRTIO from 'pmem' driver when userspace performs flush
> > on DAX memory range.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Pankaj Gupta <pagupta@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > Reviewed-by: Yuval Shaia <yuval.shaia@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > Acked-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > Acked-by: Jakub Staron <jstaron@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > Tested-by: Jakub Staron <jstaron@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> >  drivers/nvdimm/Makefile          |   1 +
> >  drivers/nvdimm/nd_virtio.c       | 125 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> >  drivers/nvdimm/virtio_pmem.c     | 122 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> >  drivers/nvdimm/virtio_pmem.h     |  55 ++++++++++++++
> >  drivers/virtio/Kconfig           |  11 +++
> >  include/uapi/linux/virtio_ids.h  |   1 +
> >  include/uapi/linux/virtio_pmem.h |  35 +++++++++
> >  7 files changed, 350 insertions(+)
> >  create mode 100644 drivers/nvdimm/nd_virtio.c
> >  create mode 100644 drivers/nvdimm/virtio_pmem.c
> >  create mode 100644 drivers/nvdimm/virtio_pmem.h
> >  create mode 100644 include/uapi/linux/virtio_pmem.h
> 
> Reviewed-by: Cornelia Huck <cohuck@xxxxxxxxxx>

Thank you Cornelia for the review.

Best regards,
Pankaj
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