Merge tag 'libnvdimm-for-4.6' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/nvdimm...

Merge tag 'libnvdimm-for-4.6' of git://git./linux/kernel/git/nvdimm/nvdimm

Pull libnvdimm updates from Dan Williams:

 - Asynchronous address range scrub:

     Given the capacities of next generation persistent memory devices a
     scrub operation to find all poison may take 10s of seconds.  We
     want this scrub work to be done asynchronously with the rest of
     system initialization, so we move it out of line from the NFIT
     probing, i.e. acpi_nfit_add().

 - Clear poison:

     ACPI 6.1 introduces the ability to send "clear error" commands to
     the ACPI0012:00 device representing the root of an "nvdimm bus".
     Similar to relocating a bad block on a disk, this support clears
     media errors in response to a write.

 - Persistent memory resource tracking:

     A persistent memory range may be designated as simply "reserved" by
     platform firmware in the efi/e820 memory map.  Later when the NFIT
     driver loads it discovers that the range is "Persistent Memory".

     The NFIT bus driver inserts a resource to advertise that
     "persistent" attribute in the system resource tree for /proc/iomem
     and kernel-internal usages.

 - Miscellaneous cleanups and fixes:

     Workaround section misaligned pmem ranges when allocating a struct
     page memmap, fix handling of the read-only case in the ioctl path,
     and clean up block device major number allocation.

* tag 'libnvdimm-for-4.6' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/nvdimm/nvdimm: (26 commits)
  libnvdimm, pmem: clear poison on write
  libnvdimm, pmem: fix kmap_atomic() leak in error path
  nvdimm/btt: don't allocate unused major device number
  nvdimm/blk: don't allocate unused major device number
  pmem: don't allocate unused major device number
  ACPI: Change NFIT driver to insert new resource
  resource: Export insert_resource and remove_resource
  resource: Add remove_resource interface
  resource: Change __request_region to inherit from immediate parent
  libnvdimm, pmem: fix ia64 build, use PHYS_PFN
  nfit, libnvdimm: clear poison command support
  libnvdimm, pfn: 'resource'-address and 'size' attributes for pfn devices
  libnvdimm, pmem: adjust for section collisions with 'System RAM'
  libnvdimm, pmem: fix 'pfn' support for section-misaligned namespaces
  libnvdimm: Fix security issue with DSM IOCTL.
  libnvdimm: Clean-up access mode check.
  tools/testing/nvdimm: expand ars unit testing
  nfit: disable userspace initiated ars during scrub
  nfit: scrub and register regions in a workqueue
  nfit, libnvdimm: async region scrub workqueue
  ...