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From: Johannes Thumshirn <jthumshirn@suse.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 01/13] libnvdimm,
 pfn: fix nvdimm_namespace_add_poison() vs section alignment
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On Mittwoch, 23. M=E4rz 2016 18:25:26 CET Dan Williams wrote:
> When section alignment padding is in effect we need to shift / truncate
> the range that is queried for poison by the 'start_pad' or 'end_trunc'
> reservations.
> =

> It's easiest if we just pass in an adjusted resource range rather than
> deriving it from the passed in namespace.  With the resource range
> resolution pushed out to the caller we can also push the
> namespace-to-region lookup to the caller and drop the implicit pmem-type
> assumption about the passed in namespace object.
> =

> Cc: Vishal Verma <vishal.l.verma@intel.com>
> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
> Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>

Does this really qualify for inclusion into stable?

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