linux/tools/testing
Dan Williams 83762cb5c7 dax: Kill DEV_DAX_PMEM_COMPAT
The /sys/class/dax compatibility option has shipped in the kernel for 4
years now which should be sufficient time for tools to abandon the old
ABI in favor of the /sys/bus/dax device-model. Delete it now and see if
anyone screams.

Since this compatibility option shipped there has been more reports of
users being surprised by the compat ABI than surprised by the "new", so
the compat infrastructure has outlived its usefulness. Recall that
/sys/bus/dax device-model is required for the dax kmem driver which
allows PMEM to be used as "System RAM".

The following projects were known to have a dependency on /sys/class/dax
and have dropped their dependency as of the listed version:

- ndctl (including libndctl, daxctl, and libdaxctl): v64+
- fio: v3.13+
- pmdk: v1.5.2+

As further evidence this option is no longer needed some distributions
have already stopped enabling CONFIG_DEV_DAX_PMEM_COMPAT.

Cc: Ira Weiny <ira.weiny@intel.com>
Cc: Dave Jiang <dave.jiang@intel.com>
Reported-by: Vishal Verma <vishal.l.verma@intel.com>
Acked-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Jane Chu <jane.chu@oracle.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/163701116195.3784476.726128179293466337.stgit@dwillia2-desk3.amr.corp.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
2021-11-24 19:21:35 -08:00
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cxl tools/testing/cxl: Introduce a mock memory device + driver 2021-09-21 14:09:34 -07:00
fault-injection
ktest bootconfig/tracing/ktest: Update ktest example for boot-time tracing 2021-08-16 11:39:51 -04:00
kunit kunit: tool: fix typecheck errors about loading qemu configs 2021-10-29 13:05:47 -06:00
nvdimm dax: Kill DEV_DAX_PMEM_COMPAT 2021-11-24 19:21:35 -08:00
radix-tree idr test suite: Improve reporting from idr_find_test_1 2021-04-01 07:50:42 -04:00
scatterlist Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew) 2021-09-03 10:08:28 -07:00
selftests New x86 features: 2021-11-13 10:01:10 -08:00
vsock vsock_diag_test: remove free_sock_stat() call in test_no_sockets 2021-10-15 17:21:34 -07:00