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<title>kernel.git/arch/x86/mm, branch linux-4.3.y</title>
<subtitle>Hosts the 0x221E linux distro kernel.
</subtitle>
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<updated>2016-01-31T19:25:43Z</updated>
<entry>
<title>x86/mm: Add barriers and document switch_mm()-vs-flush synchronization</title>
<updated>2016-01-31T19:25:43Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Andy Lutomirski</name>
</author>
<published>2016-01-06T20:21:01Z</published>
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commit 71b3c126e61177eb693423f2e18a1914205b165e upstream.

When switch_mm() activates a new PGD, it also sets a bit that
tells other CPUs that the PGD is in use so that TLB flush IPIs
will be sent.  In order for that to work correctly, the bit
needs to be visible prior to loading the PGD and therefore
starting to fill the local TLB.

Document all the barriers that make this work correctly and add
a couple that were missing.

Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski &lt;luto@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Andy Lutomirski &lt;luto@amacapital.net&gt;
Cc: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@alien8.de&gt;
Cc: Brian Gerst &lt;brgerst@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Dave Hansen &lt;dave.hansen@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Denys Vlasenko &lt;dvlasenk@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: H. Peter Anvin &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Rik van Riel &lt;riel@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>x86/mpx: Fix instruction decoder condition</title>
<updated>2016-01-31T19:25:42Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Dave Hansen</name>
</author>
<published>2015-12-01T00:31:13Z</published>
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commit 8e8efe0379bd93e8219ca0fc6fa80b5dd85b09cb upstream.

MPX decodes instructions in order to tell which bounds register
was violated.  Part of this decoding involves looking at the "REX
prefix" which is a special instrucion prefix used to retrofit
support for new registers in to old instructions.

The X86_REX_*() macros are defined to return actual bit values:

	#define X86_REX_R(rex) ((rex) &amp; 4)

*not* boolean values.  However, the MPX code was checking for
them like they were booleans.  This might have led to us
mis-decoding the "REX prefix" and giving false information out to
userspace about bounds violations.  X86_REX_B() actually is bit 1,
so this is really only broken for the X86_REX_X() case.

Fix the conditionals up to tolerate the non-boolean values.

Fixes: fcc7ffd67991 "x86, mpx: Decode MPX instruction to get bound violation information"
Reported-by: Dan Carpenter &lt;dan.carpenter@oracle.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen &lt;dave.hansen@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: x86@kernel.org
Cc: Dave Hansen &lt;dave@sr71.net&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20151201003113.D800C1E0@viggo.jf.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>x86/mpx: Fix 32-bit address space calculation</title>
<updated>2015-12-09T19:34:20Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Dave Hansen</name>
</author>
<published>2015-11-11T18:19:34Z</published>
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commit f3119b830264d89d216bfb378ab65065dffa02d9 upstream.

I received a bug report that running 32-bit MPX binaries on
64-bit kernels was broken.  I traced it down to this little code
snippet.  We were switching our "number of bounds directory
entries" calculation correctly.  But, we didn't switch the other
side of the calculation: the virtual space size.

This meant that we were calculating an absurd size for
bd_entry_virt_space() on 32-bit because we used the 64-bit
virt_space.

This was _also_ broken for 32-bit kernels running on 64-bit
hardware since boot_cpu_data.x86_virt_bits=48 even when running
in 32-bit mode.

Correct that and properly handle all 3 possible cases:

 1. 32-bit binary on 64-bit kernel
 2. 64-bit binary on 64-bit kernel
 3. 32-bit binary on 32-bit kernel

This manifested in having bounds tables not properly unmapped.
It "leaked" memory but had no functional impact otherwise.

Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen &lt;dave.hansen@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Andy Lutomirski &lt;luto@amacapital.net&gt;
Cc: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@alien8.de&gt;
Cc: Brian Gerst &lt;brgerst@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Dave Hansen &lt;dave@sr71.net&gt;
Cc: Denys Vlasenko &lt;dvlasenk@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: H. Peter Anvin &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20151111181934.FA7FAC34@viggo.jf.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>x86/mpx: Do proper get_user() when running 32-bit binaries on 64-bit kernels</title>
<updated>2015-12-09T19:34:19Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Dave Hansen</name>
</author>
<published>2015-11-11T18:19:31Z</published>
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commit 46561c3959d6307d22139c24cd0bf196162e5681 upstream.

When you call get_user(foo, bar), you effectively do a

	copy_from_user(&amp;foo, bar, sizeof(*bar));

Note that the sizeof() is implicit.

When we reach out to userspace to try to zap an entire "bounds
table" we need to go read a "bounds directory entry" in order to
locate the table's address.  The size of a "directory entry"
depends on the binary being run and is always the size of a
pointer.

But, when we have a 64-bit kernel and a 32-bit application, the
directory entry is still only 32-bits long, but we fetch it with
a 64-bit pointer which makes get_user() does a 64-bit fetch.
Reading 4 extra bytes isn't harmful, unless we are at the end of
and run off the table.  It might also cause the zero page to get
faulted in unnecessarily even if you are not at the end.

Fix it up by doing a special 32-bit get_user() via a cast when
we have 32-bit userspace.

Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen &lt;dave.hansen@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Andy Lutomirski &lt;luto@amacapital.net&gt;
Cc: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@alien8.de&gt;
Cc: Brian Gerst &lt;brgerst@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Dave Hansen &lt;dave@sr71.net&gt;
Cc: Denys Vlasenko &lt;dvlasenk@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: H. Peter Anvin &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20151111181931.3ACF6822@viggo.jf.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>x86/mm: Set NX on gap between __ex_table and rodata</title>
<updated>2015-10-02T07:21:06Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Stephen Smalley</name>
</author>
<published>2015-10-01T13:04:22Z</published>
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Unused space between the end of __ex_table and the start of
rodata can be left W+x in the kernel page tables.  Extend the
setting of the NX bit to cover this gap by starting from
text_end rather than rodata_start.

  Before:
  ---[ High Kernel Mapping ]---
  0xffffffff80000000-0xffffffff81000000          16M                               pmd
  0xffffffff81000000-0xffffffff81600000           6M     ro         PSE     GLB x  pmd
  0xffffffff81600000-0xffffffff81754000        1360K     ro                 GLB x  pte
  0xffffffff81754000-0xffffffff81800000         688K     RW                 GLB x  pte
  0xffffffff81800000-0xffffffff81a00000           2M     ro         PSE     GLB NX pmd
  0xffffffff81a00000-0xffffffff81b3b000        1260K     ro                 GLB NX pte
  0xffffffff81b3b000-0xffffffff82000000        4884K     RW                 GLB NX pte
  0xffffffff82000000-0xffffffff82200000           2M     RW         PSE     GLB NX pmd
  0xffffffff82200000-0xffffffffa0000000         478M                               pmd

  After:
  ---[ High Kernel Mapping ]---
  0xffffffff80000000-0xffffffff81000000          16M                               pmd
  0xffffffff81000000-0xffffffff81600000           6M     ro         PSE     GLB x  pmd
  0xffffffff81600000-0xffffffff81754000        1360K     ro                 GLB x  pte
  0xffffffff81754000-0xffffffff81800000         688K     RW                 GLB NX pte
  0xffffffff81800000-0xffffffff81a00000           2M     ro         PSE     GLB NX pmd
  0xffffffff81a00000-0xffffffff81b3b000        1260K     ro                 GLB NX pte
  0xffffffff81b3b000-0xffffffff82000000        4884K     RW                 GLB NX pte
  0xffffffff82000000-0xffffffff82200000           2M     RW         PSE     GLB NX pmd
  0xffffffff82200000-0xffffffffa0000000         478M                               pmd

Signed-off-by: Stephen Smalley &lt;sds@tycho.nsa.gov&gt;
Acked-by: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Mike Galbraith &lt;efault@gmx.de&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1443704662-3138-1-git-send-email-sds@tycho.nsa.gov
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'x86-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip</title>
<updated>2015-09-17T18:01:34Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
</author>
<published>2015-09-17T18:01:34Z</published>
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Pull x86 fixes from Ingo Molnar:
 - misc fixes all around the map
 - block non-root vm86(old) if mmap_min_addr != 0
 - two small debuggability improvements
 - removal of obsolete paravirt op

* 'x86-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  x86/platform: Fix Geode LX timekeeping in the generic x86 build
  x86/apic: Serialize LVTT and TSC_DEADLINE writes
  x86/ioapic: Force affinity setting in setup_ioapic_dest()
  x86/paravirt: Remove the unused pv_time_ops::get_tsc_khz method
  x86/ldt: Fix small LDT allocation for Xen
  x86/vm86: Fix the misleading CONFIG_VM86 Kconfig help text
  x86/cpu: Print family/model/stepping in hex
  x86/vm86: Block non-root vm86(old) if mmap_min_addr != 0
  x86/alternatives: Make optimize_nops() interrupt safe and synced
  x86/mm/srat: Print non-volatile flag in SRAT
  x86/cpufeatures: Enable cpuid for Intel SHA extensions
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>mm, mpx: add "vm_flags_t vm_flags" arg to do_mmap_pgoff()</title>
<updated>2015-09-10T20:29:01Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Oleg Nesterov</name>
</author>
<published>2015-09-09T22:39:29Z</published>
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Add the additional "vm_flags_t vm_flags" argument to do_mmap_pgoff(),
rename it to do_mmap(), and re-introduce do_mmap_pgoff() as a simple
wrapper on top of do_mmap().  Perhaps we should update the callers of
do_mmap_pgoff() and kill it later.

This way mpx_mmap() can simply call do_mmap(vm_flags =&gt; VM_MPX) and do not
play with vm internals.

After this change mmap_region() has a single user outside of mmap.c,
arch/tile/mm/elf.c:arch_setup_additional_pages().  It would be nice to
change arch/tile/ and unexport mmap_region().

[kirill@shutemov.name: fix build]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov &lt;oleg@redhat.com&gt;
Acked-by: Dave Hansen &lt;dave.hansen@linux.intel.com&gt;
Tested-by: Dave Hansen &lt;dave.hansen@linux.intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov &lt;kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
Cc: Andy Lutomirski &lt;luto@amacapital.net&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@elte.hu&gt;
Cc: Minchan Kim &lt;minchan@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew)</title>
<updated>2015-09-09T00:52:23Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
</author>
<published>2015-09-09T00:52:23Z</published>
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<content type='text'>
Merge second patch-bomb from Andrew Morton:
 "Almost all of the rest of MM.  There was an unusually large amount of
  MM material this time"

* emailed patches from Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;: (141 commits)
  zpool: remove no-op module init/exit
  mm: zbud: constify the zbud_ops
  mm: zpool: constify the zpool_ops
  mm: swap: zswap: maybe_preload &amp; refactoring
  zram: unify error reporting
  zsmalloc: remove null check from destroy_handle_cache()
  zsmalloc: do not take class lock in zs_shrinker_count()
  zsmalloc: use class-&gt;pages_per_zspage
  zsmalloc: consider ZS_ALMOST_FULL as migrate source
  zsmalloc: partial page ordering within a fullness_list
  zsmalloc: use shrinker to trigger auto-compaction
  zsmalloc: account the number of compacted pages
  zsmalloc/zram: introduce zs_pool_stats api
  zsmalloc: cosmetic compaction code adjustments
  zsmalloc: introduce zs_can_compact() function
  zsmalloc: always keep per-class stats
  zsmalloc: drop unused variable `nr_to_migrate'
  mm/memblock.c: fix comment in __next_mem_range()
  mm/page_alloc.c: fix type information of memoryless node
  memory-hotplug: fix comments in zone_spanned_pages_in_node() and zone_spanned_pages_in_node()
  ...
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>mem-hotplug: handle node hole when initializing numa_meminfo.</title>
<updated>2015-09-08T22:35:28Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Tang Chen</name>
</author>
<published>2015-09-08T22:02:03Z</published>
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When parsing SRAT, all memory ranges are added into numa_meminfo.  In
numa_init(), before entering numa_cleanup_meminfo(), all possible memory
ranges are in numa_meminfo.  And numa_cleanup_meminfo() removes all
ranges over max_pfn or empty.

But, this only works if the nodes are continuous.  Let's have a look at
the following example:

We have an SRAT like this:
SRAT: Node 0 PXM 0 [mem 0x00000000-0x5fffffff]
SRAT: Node 0 PXM 0 [mem 0x100000000-0x1ffffffffff]
SRAT: Node 1 PXM 1 [mem 0x20000000000-0x3ffffffffff]
SRAT: Node 4 PXM 2 [mem 0x40000000000-0x5ffffffffff] hotplug
SRAT: Node 5 PXM 3 [mem 0x60000000000-0x7ffffffffff] hotplug
SRAT: Node 2 PXM 4 [mem 0x80000000000-0x9ffffffffff] hotplug
SRAT: Node 3 PXM 5 [mem 0xa0000000000-0xbffffffffff] hotplug
SRAT: Node 6 PXM 6 [mem 0xc0000000000-0xdffffffffff] hotplug
SRAT: Node 7 PXM 7 [mem 0xe0000000000-0xfffffffffff] hotplug

On boot, only node 0,1,2,3 exist.

And the numa_meminfo will look like this:
numa_meminfo.nr_blks = 9
1. on node 0: [0, 60000000]
2. on node 0: [100000000, 20000000000]
3. on node 1: [20000000000, 40000000000]
4. on node 4: [40000000000, 60000000000]
5. on node 5: [60000000000, 80000000000]
6. on node 2: [80000000000, a0000000000]
7. on node 3: [a0000000000, a0800000000]
8. on node 6: [c0000000000, a0800000000]
9. on node 7: [e0000000000, a0800000000]

And numa_cleanup_meminfo() will merge 1 and 2, and remove 8,9 because the
end address is over max_pfn, which is a0800000000.  But 4 and 5 are not
removed because their end addresses are less then max_pfn.  But in fact,
node 4 and 5 don't exist.

In a word, numa_cleanup_meminfo() is not able to handle holes between nodes.

Since memory ranges in node 4 and 5 are in numa_meminfo, in
numa_register_memblks(), node 4 and 5 will be mistakenly set to online.

If you run lscpu, it will show:
NUMA node0 CPU(s):     0-14,128-142
NUMA node1 CPU(s):     15-29,143-157
NUMA node2 CPU(s):
NUMA node3 CPU(s):
NUMA node4 CPU(s):     62-76,190-204
NUMA node5 CPU(s):     78-92,206-220

In this patch, we use memblock_overlaps_region() to check if ranges in
numa_meminfo overlap with ranges in memory_block.  Since memory_block
contains all available memory at boot time, if they overlap, it means the
ranges exist.  If not, then remove them from numa_meminfo.

After this patch, lscpu will show:
NUMA node0 CPU(s):     0-14,128-142
NUMA node1 CPU(s):     15-29,143-157
NUMA node4 CPU(s):     62-76,190-204
NUMA node5 CPU(s):     78-92,206-220

Signed-off-by: Tang Chen &lt;tangchen@cn.fujitsu.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Yasuaki Ishimatsu &lt;isimatu.yasuaki@jp.fujitsu.com&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Luiz Capitulino &lt;lcapitulino@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Xishi Qiu &lt;qiuxishi@huawei.com&gt;
Cc: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Vladimir Murzin &lt;vladimir.murzin@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Fabian Frederick &lt;fabf@skynet.be&gt;
Cc: Alexander Kuleshov &lt;kuleshovmail@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Baoquan He &lt;bhe@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'libnvdimm-for-4.3' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/nvdimm/nvdimm</title>
<updated>2015-09-08T21:35:59Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
</author>
<published>2015-09-08T21:35:59Z</published>
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<content type='text'>
Pull libnvdimm updates from Dan Williams:
 "This update has successfully completed a 0day-kbuild run and has
  appeared in a linux-next release.  The changes outside of the typical
  drivers/nvdimm/ and drivers/acpi/nfit.[ch] paths are related to the
  removal of IORESOURCE_CACHEABLE, the introduction of memremap(), and
  the introduction of ZONE_DEVICE + devm_memremap_pages().

  Summary:

   - Introduce ZONE_DEVICE and devm_memremap_pages() as a generic
     mechanism for adding device-driver-discovered memory regions to the
     kernel's direct map.

     This facility is used by the pmem driver to enable pfn_to_page()
     operations on the page frames returned by DAX ('direct_access' in
     'struct block_device_operations').

     For now, the 'memmap' allocation for these "device" pages comes
     from "System RAM".  Support for allocating the memmap from device
     memory will arrive in a later kernel.

   - Introduce memremap() to replace usages of ioremap_cache() and
     ioremap_wt().  memremap() drops the __iomem annotation for these
     mappings to memory that do not have i/o side effects.  The
     replacement of ioremap_cache() with memremap() is limited to the
     pmem driver to ease merging the api change in v4.3.

     Completion of the conversion is targeted for v4.4.

   - Similar to the usage of memcpy_to_pmem() + wmb_pmem() in the pmem
     driver, update the VFS DAX implementation and PMEM api to provide
     persistence guarantees for kernel operations on a DAX mapping.

   - Convert the ACPI NFIT 'BLK' driver to map the block apertures as
     cacheable to improve performance.

   - Miscellaneous updates and fixes to libnvdimm including support for
     issuing "address range scrub" commands, clarifying the optimal
     'sector size' of pmem devices, a clarification of the usage of the
     ACPI '_STA' (status) property for DIMM devices, and other minor
     fixes"

* tag 'libnvdimm-for-4.3' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/nvdimm/nvdimm: (34 commits)
  libnvdimm, pmem: direct map legacy pmem by default
  libnvdimm, pmem: 'struct page' for pmem
  libnvdimm, pfn: 'struct page' provider infrastructure
  x86, pmem: clarify that ARCH_HAS_PMEM_API implies PMEM mapped WB
  add devm_memremap_pages
  mm: ZONE_DEVICE for "device memory"
  mm: move __phys_to_pfn and __pfn_to_phys to asm/generic/memory_model.h
  dax: drop size parameter to -&gt;direct_access()
  nd_blk: change aperture mapping from WC to WB
  nvdimm: change to use generic kvfree()
  pmem, dax: have direct_access use __pmem annotation
  dax: update I/O path to do proper PMEM flushing
  pmem: add copy_from_iter_pmem() and clear_pmem()
  pmem, x86: clean up conditional pmem includes
  pmem: remove layer when calling arch_has_wmb_pmem()
  pmem, x86: move x86 PMEM API to new pmem.h header
  libnvdimm, e820: make CONFIG_X86_PMEM_LEGACY a tristate option
  pmem: switch to devm_ allocations
  devres: add devm_memremap
  libnvdimm, btt: write and validate parent_uuid
  ...
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