On Thu, 23 Apr 2015, Paul E. McKenney wrote: > > DAX > > DAX is a mechanism for providing direct-memory access to > high-speed non-volatile (AKA "persistent") memory. Good > introductions to DAX may be found in the following LWN > articles: DAX is a mechanism to access memory not managed by the kernel and is the successor to XIP. It just happens to be needed for persistent memory. Fundamentally any driver can provide an MMAPPed interface to allow access to a devices memory. -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@xxxxxxxxx. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: <a href=mailto:"dont@xxxxxxxxx";> email@xxxxxxxxx </a>