What: /sys/class/dax/
Date: May, 2016
KernelVersion: v4.7
Contact: nvdimm@lists.linux.dev
Description: 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:
1. Guarantees fault granularity with respect to a given
page size (pte, pmd, or pud) set at configuration time.
2. Enforces deterministic behavior by being strict about
what fault scenarios are supported.
The /sys/class/dax/ interface enumerates all the
device-dax instances in the system. The ABI is
deprecated and will be removed after 2020. It is
replaced with the DAX bus interface /sys/bus/dax/ where
device-dax instances can be found under
/sys/bus/dax/devices/-
Dan Williams authored
After seeing some users have subscription management trouble, more spam than other Linux development lists, and considering some of the benefits of kernel.org hosted lists, nvdimm and persistent memory development is moving to nvdimm@lists.linux.dev. The old list will remain up until v5.14-rc1 and shutdown thereafter. Cc: Ira Weiny <ira.weiny@intel.com> Cc: Oliver O'Halloran <oohall@gmail.com> Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org> Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Cc: Dave Jiang <dave.jiang@intel.com> Cc: Vishal Verma <vishal.l.verma@intel.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/161898872871.3406469.4054282559340528393.stgit@dwillia2-desk3.amr.corp.intel.com Signed-off-by:
Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
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