On Fri, Apr 17, 2015 at 09:36:55PM -0400, Dan Williams wrote: > Block devices from an nd bus, in addition to accepting "struct bio" > based requests, also have the capability to perform byte-aligned > accesses. By default only the bio/block interface is used. However, if > another driver can make effective use of the byte-aligned capability it > can claim/disable the block interface and use the byte-aligned "nd_io" > interface. > > The BTT driver is the intended first consumer of this mechanism to allow > layering atomic sector update guarantees on top of nd_io capable > nd-bus-block-devices.
Please don't add any of the nd-specific hacks into the pmem driver. The rw_bytes functionality already is provided by the existing block level ->rw_page method which pmem already implements, and any sort of bus locking for different access methods should be in the bus glue, not in pmem.c -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
