Re: [PATCH 01/13] libnvdimm, pfn: fix nvdimm_namespace_add_poison() vs section alignment

Dan Williams
2016-03-24T14:49:47Z

On Thu, Mar 24, 2016 at 3:10 AM, Johannes Thumshirn <jthumshirn@suse.de> wrote:
> On Mittwoch, 23. März 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?

Depends on when we push it. If we wait for the 4.7 merge window this
will be -stable material to fix 4.6. The lack of urgency is driven by
the fact that there is still time to work with BIOS implementations to
address the 128MB alignment problem.