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From: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Date: Sun, 8 Jul 2018 23:06:12 -0700
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Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 2/2] mm/pmem: Add memblock based e820 platform driver
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On Sun, Jul 8, 2018 at 10:17 PM, Aneesh Kumar K.V
<aneesh.kumar@linux.ibm.com> wrote:
> On 07/07/2018 11:06 PM, Dan Williams wrote:
[..]
> What we need is the ability to run with fsdax on hypervisor other than KVM.

That sounds like a production use case? How can it be actual
persistent memory if the kernel is picking the physical address
backing the range?