Dan Williams
Dan Williams
@stellarhopper agree. A reconfig on a namespace with p.size == 0 should reconfigure to a maximally sized namespace with create-namespace defaults. This would seem to need some other pending fixups:...
It looks like the Debian unstable package has it working... I wonder if Adam has a local patch: https://packages.debian.org/sid/source/ndctl
Can you reproduce with the 4.19 long-term-stable kernel? The 4.17 kernel has ceased development since August of last year.
I'd consider this issue a duplicate of https://github.com/pmem/ndctl/issues/117
Yes, good catch.
The platform does not give the OS a mechanism to check progress, or any programmatic mechanism to determine wait time. So the first stop is an extension to the DSM...
How about instead of a boolean flag add 2 fields, "total_memblocks" and "online_memblocks", so that it's clear when a memory range is only partially online.
Hmm, yes, there is a bug there, but the mode data is correct. ndctl manages attaching a device-dax instance to a namespace. That device-dax instance can then be bound to...
There are latent plans to move the build system to meson. When that happens we'll keep this use case in mind.
I would classify this as a feature request for dracut and other initramfs building tools. Namely, if they are pulling in the nvdimm drivers they also need to pull in...