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Aneesh Kumar K.V 4c806b897d libnvdimm/region: Enable MAP_SYNC for volatile regions
Some environments want to use a host tmpfs/ramdisk to back guest pmem.
While the data is not persisted relative to the host it *is* persisted
relative to guest crashes / reboots. The guest is free to use dax and
MAP_SYNC to keep filesystem metadata consistent with dax accesses
without requiring guest fsync(). The guest can also observe that the
region is volatile and skip cache flushing as global visibility is
enough to "persist" data relative to the host staying alive over guest
reset events.

Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Pankaj Gupta <pagupta@redhat.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20190924114327.14700-1-aneesh.kumar@linux.ibm.com
[djbw: reword the changelog]
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
2019-09-24 10:33:19 -07:00
Documentation RISC-V updates for v5.3-rc4 2019-08-10 16:31:47 -07:00
LICENSES LICENSES: Rename other to deprecated 2019-05-03 06:34:32 -06:00
arch libnvdimm/altmap: Track namespace boundaries in altmap 2019-09-24 10:24:12 -07:00
block block, bfq: handle NULL return value by bfq_init_rq() 2019-08-08 07:31:50 -06:00
certs Revert "Merge tag 'keys-acl-20190703' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dhowells/linux-fs" 2019-07-10 18:43:43 -07:00
crypto USB / PHY patches for 5.3-rc1 2019-07-11 15:40:06 -07:00
drivers libnvdimm/region: Enable MAP_SYNC for volatile regions 2019-09-24 10:33:19 -07:00
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README

Linux kernel
============

There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.  The formatted documentation can also be read online at:

    https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/

There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.

Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.