Merge tag 'libnvdimm-for-4.7' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/nvdimm...

Merge tag 'libnvdimm-for-4.7' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/nvdimm/nvdimm

Pull libnvdimm updates from Dan Williams:
 "The bulk of this update was stabilized before the merge window and
  appeared in -next.  The "device dax" implementation was revised this
  week in response to review feedback, and to address failures detected
  by the recently expanded ndctl unit test suite.

  Not included in this pull request are two dax topic branches (dax
  error handling, and dax radix-tree locking).  These topics were
  deferred to get a few more days of -next integration testing, and to
  coordinate a branch baseline with Ted and the ext4 tree.  Vishal and
  Ross will send the error handling and locking topics respectively in
  the next few days.

  This branch has received a positive build result from the kbuild robot
  across 226 configs.

  Summary:

   - Device DAX for persistent memory: Device DAX is the device-centric
     analogue of Filesystem DAX (CONFIG_FS_DAX).  It allows memory
     ranges to be allocated and mapped without need of an intervening
     file system.  Device DAX is strict, precise and predictable.
     Specifically this interface:

      a) Guarantees fault granularity with respect to a given page size
         (pte, pmd, or pud) set at configuration time.

      b) Enforces deterministic behavior by being strict about what
         fault scenarios are supported.

     Persistent memory is the first target, but the mechanism is also
     targeted for exclusive allocations of performance/feature
     differentiated memory ranges.

   - Support for the HPE DSM (device specific method) command formats.
     This enables management of these first generation devices until a
     unified DSM specification materializes.

   - Further ACPI 6.1 compliance with support for the common dimm
     identifier format.

   - Various fixes and cleanups across the subsystem"

* tag 'libnvdimm-for-4.7' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/nvdimm/nvdimm: (40 commits)
  libnvdimm, dax: fix deletion
  libnvdimm, dax: fix alignment validation
  libnvdimm, dax: autodetect support
  libnvdimm: release ida resources
  Revert "block: enable dax for raw block devices"
  /dev/dax, core: file operations and dax-mmap
  /dev/dax, pmem: direct access to persistent memory
  libnvdimm: stop requiring a driver ->remove() method
  libnvdimm, dax: record the specified alignment of a dax-device instance
  libnvdimm, dax: reserve space to store labels for device-dax
  libnvdimm, dax: introduce device-dax infrastructure
  nfit: add sysfs dimm 'family' and 'dsm_mask' attributes
  tools/testing/nvdimm: ND_CMD_CALL support
  nfit: disable vendor specific commands
  nfit: export subsystem ids as attributes
  nfit: fix format interface code byte order per ACPI6.1
  nfit, libnvdimm: limited/whitelisted dimm command marshaling mechanism
  nfit, libnvdimm: clarify "commands" vs "_DSMs"
  libnvdimm: increase max envelope size for ioctl
  acpi/nfit: Add sysfs "id" for NVDIMM ID
  ...