Vishal Verma
40cdc60ac1
device-dax based devices were missing a 'resource' attribute to indicate the physical address range contributed by the device in question. This information is desirable to userspace tooling that may want to use the dax device as system-ram, and wants to selectively hotplug and online the memory blocks associated with a given device. Without this, the tooling would have to parse /proc/iomem for the memory ranges contributed by dax devices, which can be a workaround, but it is far easier to provide this information in the sysfs hierarchy. Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com> Cc: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Vishal Verma <vishal.l.verma@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Linux kernel
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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.