Merge branch 'libnvdimm-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/nvdimm/nvdimm
Pull libnvdimm fixes from Dan Williams:
"These fixes are all tagged for -stable and have received a build
success notification from the kbuild robot.
- NVDIMM namespaces, configured to enforce 1GB alignment, fail to
initialize on platforms that mis-align the start or end of the
physical address range.
- The Linux implementation of the BTT (Block Translation Table) is
incompatible with the UEFI 2.7 definition of the BTT format. The
BTT layers a software atomic sector semantic on top of an NVDIMM
namespace. Linux needs to be compatible with the UEFI definition to
enable boot support or any pre-OS access of data on a BTT enabled
namespace.
- A fix for ACPI SMART notification events, this allows a userspace
monitor to register for health events rather than poll. This has
been broken since it was initially merged as the unit test
inadvertently worked aro...
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