linux_dsm_epyc7002/drivers/dax/Kconfig
Dan Williams 7b6be8444e dax: refactor dax-fs into a generic provider of 'struct dax_device' instances
We want dax capable drivers to be able to publish a set of dax
operations [1]. However, we do not want to further abuse block_devices
to advertise these operations. Instead we will attach these operations
to a dax device and add a lookup mechanism to go from block device path
to a dax device. A dax capable driver like pmem or brd is responsible
for registering a dax device, alongside a block device, and then a dax
capable filesystem is responsible for retrieving the dax device by path
name if it wants to call dax_operations.

For now, we refactor the dax pseudo-fs to be a generic facility, rather
than an implementation detail, of the device-dax use case. Where a "dax
device" is just an inode + dax infrastructure, and "Device DAX" is a
mapping service layered on top of that base 'struct dax_device'.
"Filesystem DAX" is then a mapping service that layers a filesystem on
top of that same base device. Filesystem DAX is associated with a
block_device for now, but perhaps directly to a dax device in the
future, or for new pmem-only filesystems.

[1]: https://lkml.org/lkml/2017/1/19/880

Suggested-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
2017-04-12 21:59:14 -07:00

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menuconfig DAX
tristate "DAX: direct access to differentiated memory"
select SRCU
default m if NVDIMM_DAX
if DAX
config DEV_DAX
tristate "Device DAX: direct access mapping device"
depends on TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE
help
Support raw access to differentiated (persistence, bandwidth,
latency...) memory via an mmap(2) capable character
device. Platform firmware or a device driver may identify a
platform memory resource that is differentiated from the
baseline memory pool. Mappings of a /dev/daxX.Y device impose
restrictions that make the mapping behavior deterministic.
config DEV_DAX_PMEM
tristate "PMEM DAX: direct access to persistent memory"
depends on LIBNVDIMM && NVDIMM_DAX
default DEV_DAX
help
Support raw access to persistent memory. Note that this
driver consumes memory ranges allocated and exported by the
libnvdimm sub-system.
Say Y if unsure
config NR_DEV_DAX
int "Maximum number of Device-DAX instances"
default 32768
range 256 2147483647
endif