Hi Qiaowei and Jianpeng, The v8 series looks fine, now they are under pressure testing. Once they survive tomorrow, I will submit them with the 2nd wave patches. Thanks for the effort. Coly Li On 4/13/21 10:05 PM, Qiaowei Ren wrote: > From: Jianpeng Ma <jianpeng.ma@xxxxxxxxx> > > This series implements nvm pages allocator for bcache. This idea is from > one discussion about nvdimm use case in kernel together with Coly. Coly > sent the following email about this idea to give some introduction on what > we will do before: > > https://lore.kernel.org/linux-bcache/bc7e71ec-97eb-b226-d4fc-d8b64c1ef41a@xxxxxxx/ > > Here this series focus on the first step in above email, that is to say, > this patch set implements a generic framework in bcache to allocate/release > NV-memory pages, and provide allocated pages for each requestor after reboot. > In order to do this, one simple buddy system is implemented to manage NV-memory > pages. > > Coly Li (1): > bcache: add initial data structures for nvm pages > > Jianpeng Ma (5): > bcache: initialize the nvm pages allocator > bcache: initialization of the buddy > bcache: bch_nvm_alloc_pages() of the buddy > bcache: bch_nvm_free_pages() of the buddy > bcache: get allocated pages from specific owner > > drivers/md/bcache/Kconfig | 9 + > drivers/md/bcache/Makefile | 2 +- > drivers/md/bcache/nvm-pages.c | 747 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ > drivers/md/bcache/nvm-pages.h | 93 ++++ > drivers/md/bcache/super.c | 3 + > include/uapi/linux/bcache-nvm.h | 208 +++++++++ > 6 files changed, 1061 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) > create mode 100644 drivers/md/bcache/nvm-pages.c > create mode 100644 drivers/md/bcache/nvm-pages.h > create mode 100644 include/uapi/linux/bcache-nvm.h >
