Merge tag 'libnvdimm-for-4.15' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/nvdim...

Merge tag 'libnvdimm-for-4.15' of git://git./linux/kernel/git/nvdimm/nvdimm

Pull libnvdimm and dax updates from Dan Williams:
 "Save for a few late fixes, all of these commits have shipped in -next
  releases since before the merge window opened, and 0day has given a
  build success notification.

  The ext4 touches came from Jan, and the xfs touches have Darrick's
  reviewed-by. An xfstest for the MAP_SYNC feature has been through
  a few round of reviews and is on track to be merged.

   - Introduce MAP_SYNC and MAP_SHARED_VALIDATE, a mechanism to enable
     'userspace flush' of persistent memory updates via filesystem-dax
     mappings. It arranges for any filesystem metadata updates that may
     be required to satisfy a write fault to also be flushed ("on disk")
     before the kernel returns to userspace from the fault handler.
     Effectively every write-fault that dirties metadata completes an
     fsync() before returning from the fault handler. The new
     MAP_SHARED_VALIDATE mapping type guarantees that the MAP_SYNC flag
     is validated as supported by the filesystem's ->mmap() file
     operation.

   - Add support for the standard ACPI 6.2 label access methods that
     replace the NVDIMM_FAMILY_INTEL (vendor specific) label methods.
     This enables interoperability with environments that only implement
     the standardized methods.

   - Add support for the ACPI 6.2 NVDIMM media error injection methods.

   - Add support for the NVDIMM_FAMILY_INTEL v1.6 DIMM commands for
     latch last shutdown status, firmware update, SMART error injection,
     and SMART alarm threshold control.

   - Cleanup physical address information disclosures to be root-only.

   - Fix revalidation of the DIMM "locked label area" status to support
     dynamic unlock of the label area.

   - Expand unit test infrastructure to mock the ACPI 6.2 Translate SPA
     (system-physical-address) command and error injection commands.

  Acknowledgements that came after the commits were pushed to -next:

   - 957ac8c421ad ("dax: fix PMD faults on zero-length files"):
       Reviewed-by: Ross Zwisler <ross.zwisler@linux.intel.com>
   - a39e596baa07 ("xfs: support for synchronous DAX faults") and
     7b565c9f965b ("xfs: Implement xfs_filemap_pfn_mkwrite() using __xfs_filemap_fault()")
        Reviewed-by: Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@oracle.com>"
* tag 'libnvdimm-for-4.15' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/nvdimm/nvdimm: (49 commits)
  acpi, nfit: add 'Enable Latch System Shutdown Status' command support
  dax: fix general protection fault in dax_alloc_inode
  dax: fix PMD faults on zero-length files
  dax: stop requiring a live device for dax_flush()
  brd: remove dax support
  dax: quiet bdev_dax_supported()
  fs, dax: unify IOMAP_F_DIRTY read vs write handling policy in the dax core
  tools/testing/nvdimm: unit test clear-error commands
  acpi, nfit: validate commands against the device type
  tools/testing/nvdimm: stricter bounds checking for error injection commands
  xfs: support for synchronous DAX faults
  xfs: Implement xfs_filemap_pfn_mkwrite() using __xfs_filemap_fault()
  ext4: Support for synchronous DAX faults
  ext4: Simplify error handling in ext4_dax_huge_fault()
  dax: Implement dax_finish_sync_fault()
  dax, iomap: Add support for synchronous faults
  mm: Define MAP_SYNC and VM_SYNC flags
  dax: Allow tuning whether dax_insert_mapping_entry() dirties entry
  dax: Allow dax_iomap_fault() to return pfn
  dax: Fix comment describing dax_iomap_fault()
  ...