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    x86/numa: cleanup configuration dependent command-line options · 2dd57d34
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    Patch series "device-dax: Support sub-dividing soft-reserved ranges", v5.
    
    The device-dax facility allows an address range to be directly mapped
    through a chardev, or optionally hotplugged to the core kernel page
    allocator as System-RAM.  It is the mechanism for converting persistent
    memory (pmem) to be used as another volatile memory pool i.e.  the current
    Memory Tiering hot topic on linux-mm.
    
    In the case of pmem the nvdimm-namespace-label mechanism can sub-divide
    it, but that labeling mechanism is not available / applicable to
    soft-reserved ("EFI specific purpose") memory [3].  This series provides a
    sysfs-mechanism for the daxctl utility to enable provisioning of
    volatile-soft-reserved memory ranges.
    
    The motivations for this facility are:
    
    1/ Allow performance differentiated memory ranges to be split between
       kernel-managed and directly-accessed use cases.
    
    2/ Allow physical memory to be provisioned along performance relevant
       address boundaries. For example, divide a memory-side cache [4] along
       cache-color boundaries.
    
    3/ Parcel out soft-reserved memory to VMs using device-dax as a security
       / permissions boundary [5]. Specifically I have seen people (ab)using
       memmap=nn!ss (mark System-RAM as Persistent Memory) just to get the
       device-dax interface on custom address ranges. A follow-on for the VM
       use case is to teach device-dax to dynamically allocate 'struct page' at
       runtime to reduce the duplication of 'struct page' space in both the
       guest and the host kernel for the same physical pages.
    
    [2]: http://lore.kernel.org/r/20200713160837.13774-11-joao.m.martins@oracle.com
    [3]: http://lore.kernel.org/r/157309097008.1579826.12818463304589384434.stgit@dwillia2-desk3.amr.corp.intel.com
    [4]: http://lore.kernel.org/r/154899811738.3165233.12325692939590944259.stgit@dwillia2-desk3.amr.corp.intel.com
    [5]: http://lore.kernel.org/r/20200110190313.17144-1-joao.m.martins@oracle.com
    
    This patch (of 23):
    
    In preparation for adding a new numa= option clean up the existing ones to
    avoid ifdefs in numa_setup(), and provide feedback when the option is
    numa=fake= option is invalid due to kernel config.  The same does not need
    to be done for numa=noacpi, since the capability is already hard disabled
    at compile-time.
    Suggested-by: default avatarRafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarDan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
    Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
    Cc: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org>
    Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
    Cc: Ben Skeggs <bskeggs@redhat.com>
    Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
    Cc: Brice Goglin <Brice.Goglin@inria.fr>
    Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
    Cc: Daniel Vetter <daniel@ffwll.ch>
    Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
    Cc: Dave Jiang <dave.jiang@intel.com>
    Cc: David Airlie <airlied@linux.ie>
    Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
    Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
    Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
    Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
    Cc: Ira Weiny <ira.weiny@intel.com>
    Cc: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@mellanox.com>
    Cc: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com>
    Cc: Jia He <justin.he@arm.com>
    Cc: Joao Martins <joao.m.martins@oracle.com>
    Cc: Jonathan Cameron <Jonathan.Cameron@huawei.com>
    Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
    Cc: Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.ibm.com>
    Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@ozlabs.org>
    Cc: Pavel Tatashin <pasha.tatashin@soleen.com>
    Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
    Cc: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
    Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
    Cc: Tom Lendacky <thomas.lendacky@amd.com>
    Cc: Vishal Verma <vishal.l.verma@intel.com>
    Cc: Wei Yang <richard.weiyang@linux.alibaba.com>
    Cc: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
    Cc: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org>
    Cc: Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@google.com>
    Cc: Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com>
    Cc: Hulk Robot <hulkci@huawei.com>
    Cc: Jason Yan <yanaijie@huawei.com>
    Cc: "Jérôme Glisse" <jglisse@redhat.com>
    Cc: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
    Cc: kernel test robot <lkp@intel.com>
    Cc: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
    Cc: Stefano Stabellini <sstabellini@kernel.org>
    Cc: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
    Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/160106109960.30709.7379926726669669398.stgit@dwillia2-desk3.amr.corp.intel.com
    Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/159643094279.4062302.17779410714418721328.stgit@dwillia2-desk3.amr.corp.intel.com
    Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/159643094925.4062302.14979872973043772305.stgit@dwillia2-desk3.amr.corp.intel.comSigned-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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