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This release incorporates the capabilities of the 4.9 kernel. Major highlights include support for retrieving the health status of HPE NVDIMMs, and new label manipulation / validation commands. Commands: list: add HPE NVDIMM health reporting init-labels: initialize a namespace-label index-block check-labels: validate a namespace-label index-block create-namespace: fix crash when target region disabled bash-completion: add {en,dis}able-dimm and {check,init}-labels support Tests: dsm-fail: check that namespaces stay disabled when label DSMs fail multi-pmem: validate pmem-region sub-division support libndctl: add btt-size check libndctl: test health event notification support device-dax: validate "invalidate on shutdown" behavior of dax devices device-dax: validate direct-i/o to device-dax mappings device-dax: check kernel fix for file offset to phys offset translation device-dax: check kernel fix for crash when reading /proc/<pid>/smaps clear: check kernel fix for making cleared badblocks stay cleared Apis: daxctl_region_get_available_size: new, in support of dax sub-division daxctl_region_get_devname: new, in support of dax sub-division daxctl_region_get_dev_seed: new, in support of dax sub-division ndctl_dimm_get_health_eventfd: new, fires upon firmware health event notification ndctl_cmd_cfg_read_get_size: new, simplifies label manipulation routines ndctl_dimm_get_available_labels: fix error return value to be ULONG_MAX ndctl_region_get_available_size: fix error return value to be ULLONG_MAX ndctl_dimm_cmd_new_cfg_{read,write}: fix to not overflow label area size
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