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 >