Re: [5.4-stable PATCH 0/7] libnvdimm: Cross-arch compatible namespace alignment

2020-06-01 Thread Greg KH
On Tue, May 26, 2020 at 01:52:21PM -0700, Dan Williams wrote: > On Tue, May 26, 2020 at 1:49 PM Jeff Moyer wrote: > > > > Dan Williams writes: > > > > >> What problems with 5.4.y and 5.6.y is this series fixing > > >> that used to work before? > > > > > > The "used to work" bug fixed by this set

Re: [5.4-stable PATCH 0/7] libnvdimm: Cross-arch compatible namespace alignment

2020-05-26 Thread Dan Williams
On Tue, May 26, 2020 at 1:49 PM Jeff Moyer wrote: > > Dan Williams writes: > > >> What problems with 5.4.y and 5.6.y is this series fixing > >> that used to work before? > > > > The "used to work" bug fixed by this set is the fact that the kernel > > used to force a 128MB (memory hotplug section

Re: [5.4-stable PATCH 0/7] libnvdimm: Cross-arch compatible namespace alignment

2020-05-26 Thread Jeff Moyer
Dan Williams writes: >> What problems with 5.4.y and 5.6.y is this series fixing >> that used to work before? > > The "used to work" bug fixed by this set is the fact that the kernel > used to force a 128MB (memory hotplug section size) alignment padding > on all persistent memory namespaces to

Re: [5.4-stable PATCH 0/7] libnvdimm: Cross-arch compatible namespace alignment

2020-05-26 Thread Dan Williams
On Fri, May 22, 2020 at 5:00 AM Greg KH wrote: > > On Fri, May 22, 2020 at 01:58:00PM +0200, Greg KH wrote: > > On Thu, May 21, 2020 at 04:37:43PM -0700, Dan Williams wrote: > > > Hello stable team, > > > > > > These patches have been shipping in mainline since v5.7-rc1 with no > > > reported

Re: [5.4-stable PATCH 0/7] libnvdimm: Cross-arch compatible namespace alignment

2020-05-22 Thread Greg KH
On Fri, May 22, 2020 at 01:58:00PM +0200, Greg KH wrote: > On Thu, May 21, 2020 at 04:37:43PM -0700, Dan Williams wrote: > > Hello stable team, > > > > These patches have been shipping in mainline since v5.7-rc1 with no > > reported issues. They address long standing problems in libnvdimm's > >

Re: [5.4-stable PATCH 0/7] libnvdimm: Cross-arch compatible namespace alignment

2020-05-22 Thread Greg KH
On Thu, May 21, 2020 at 04:37:43PM -0700, Dan Williams wrote: > Hello stable team, > > These patches have been shipping in mainline since v5.7-rc1 with no > reported issues. They address long standing problems in libnvdimm's > handling of namespace provisioning relative to alignment constraints >

[5.4-stable PATCH 0/7] libnvdimm: Cross-arch compatible namespace alignment

2020-05-21 Thread Dan Williams
Hello stable team, These patches have been shipping in mainline since v5.7-rc1 with no reported issues. They address long standing problems in libnvdimm's handling of namespace provisioning relative to alignment constraints including crashes trying to even load the driver on some PowerPC