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@stellarhopper stellarhopper released this 28 Oct 17:43
v67
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This release incorporates functionality up to the 5.4 kernel, and adds a
number of bug fixes, and improvements.

Highlights include small changes for PowerPC compatibility, improvements
to the dax.sh unit test to detect failures in mapping huge pages,
support for the 'security frozen' attribute, user experience
improvements for the daxctl-reconfigure-device command, including an
option to specify movable vs. non-movable state for onlining memory, and
an option to allow create-namespaces to create a maximal configuration
until it exhausts all available region capacity.

Commands:
  create-namespace: add --continue option
  daxctl-reconfigure-device: add --no-movable option
  daxctl-reconfigure-device: display movable state in listings
  daxctl-reconfigure-device: detect races in memory onlining
  security: support for 'security frozen' attribute

Tests:
  dax.sh: add detection for huge page failures
  dax.sh: add XFS reflink dependency
  daxctl-devices.sh: skip on older kernels

APIs:
  ndctl_dimm_security_is_frozen
  daxctl_memory_is_movable
  daxctl_memory_online_no_movable