device-dax: introduce 'seed' devices

Add a seed device concept for dynamic dax regions to be able to split the
region amongst multiple sub-instances.  The seed device, similar to
libnvdimm seed devices, is a device that starts with zero capacity
allocated and unbound to a driver.  In contrast to libnvdimm seed devices
explicit 'create' and 'delete' interfaces are added to the region to
trigger seeds to be created and unused devices to be reclaimed.  The
explicit create and delete replaces implicit create as a side effect of
probe and implicit delete when writing 0 to the size that libnvdimm
implements.

Delete can be performed on any 0-sized and idle device.  This avoids the
gymnastics of needing to move device_unregister() to its own async
context.  Specifically, it avoids the deadlock of deleting a device via
one of its own attributes.  It is also less surprising to userspace which
never sees an extra device it did not request.

For now just add the device creation, teardown, and ->probe() prevention.
A later patch will arrange for the 'dax/size' attribute to be writable to
allocate capacity from the region.

Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Cc: Vishal Verma <[email protected]>
Cc: Brice Goglin <[email protected]>
Cc: Dave Hansen <[email protected]>
Cc: Dave Jiang <[email protected]>
Cc: David Hildenbrand <[email protected]>
Cc: Ira Weiny <[email protected]>
Cc: Jia He <[email protected]>
Cc: Joao Martins <[email protected]>
Cc: Jonathan Cameron <[email protected]>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <[email protected]>
Cc: Ard Biesheuvel <[email protected]>
Cc: Ard Biesheuvel <[email protected]>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <[email protected]>
Cc: Ben Skeggs <[email protected]>
Cc: Bjorn Helgaas <[email protected]>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <[email protected]>
Cc: Boris Ostrovsky <[email protected]>
Cc: Catalin Marinas <[email protected]>
Cc: Daniel Vetter <[email protected]>
Cc: David Airlie <[email protected]>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <[email protected]>
Cc: Hulk Robot <[email protected]>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>
Cc: Jason Gunthorpe <[email protected]>
Cc: Jason Yan <[email protected]>
Cc: Jeff Moyer <[email protected]>
Cc: "Jérôme Glisse" <[email protected]>
Cc: Juergen Gross <[email protected]>
Cc: kernel test robot <[email protected]>
Cc: Michael Ellerman <[email protected]>
Cc: Mike Rapoport <[email protected]>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <[email protected]>
Cc: Pavel Tatashin <[email protected]>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]>
Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <[email protected]>
Cc: Randy Dunlap <[email protected]>
Cc: Stefano Stabellini <[email protected]>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <[email protected]>
Cc: Tom Lendacky <[email protected]>
Cc: Vivek Goyal <[email protected]>
Cc: Wei Yang <[email protected]>
Cc: Will Deacon <[email protected]>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/159643101583.4062302.12255093902950754962.stgit@dwillia2-desk3.amr.corp.intel.com
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/160106113873.30709.15168756050631539431.stgit@dwillia2-desk3.amr.corp.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>

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