Merge branch 'libnvdimm-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/djbw/nvdimm
Pull libnvdimm fixes from Dan Williams:
"1) Fixes for a handful of smatch reports (Thanks Dan C.!) and minor
bug fixes (patches 1-6)
2) Correctness fixes to the BLK-mode nvdimm driver (patches 7-10).
Granted these are slightly large for a -rc update. They have been
out for review in one form or another since the end of May and were
deferred from the merge window while we settled on the "PMEM API"
for the PMEM-mode nvdimm driver (ie memremap_pmem, memcpy_to_pmem,
and wmb_pmem).
Now that those apis are merged we implement them in the BLK driver
to guarantee that mmio aperture moves stay ordered with respect to
incoming read/write requests, and that writes are flushed through
those mmio-windows and platform-buffers to be persistent on media.
These pass the sub-system unit tests with the updates to
tools/testing/nvdimm, and have received a successful build-r...
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