On Wed, Oct 18, 2017 at 08:51:37AM -0700, Dan Williams wrote: > This use case is not "Persistent Memory". Persistent Memory is > something you can map and make persistent with CPU instructions. > Anything that requires a driver call is device driver managed "Shared > Memory". How is this any different than the existing nvdimm_flush()? If you really care about the not driver thing it could easily be a write to a doorbell page or a hypercall, but in the end that's just semantics.