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authorDan Williams2015-04-03 18:05:28 +0200
committerDan Williams2015-05-28 03:46:05 +0200
commitad5fb870c486d932a1749d7853dd70f436a7e03f (patch)
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parentACPICA: Fix for ill-formed GUID strings for NFIT tables. (diff)
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e820, efi: add ACPI 6.0 persistent memory types
ACPI 6.0 formalizes e820-type-7 and efi-type-14 as persistent memory. Mark it "reserved" and allow it to be claimed by a persistent memory device driver. This definition is in addition to the Linux kernel's existing type-12 definition that was recently added in support of shipping platforms with NVDIMM support that predate ACPI 6.0 (which now classifies type-12 as OEM reserved). Note, /proc/iomem can be consulted for differentiating legacy "Persistent Memory (legacy)" E820_PRAM vs standard "Persistent Memory" E820_PMEM. Cc: Boaz Harrosh <boaz@plexistor.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@linux.intel.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Acked-by: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com> Acked-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net> Reviewed-by: Ross Zwisler <ross.zwisler@linux.intel.com> Acked-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Tested-by: Toshi Kani <toshi.kani@hp.com> Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/x86/kernel/e820.c')
-rw-r--r--arch/x86/kernel/e820.c28
1 files changed, 24 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/e820.c b/arch/x86/kernel/e820.c
index e2ce85db2283..c857d53269dd 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/e820.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/e820.c
@@ -149,6 +149,7 @@ static void __init e820_print_type(u32 type)
case E820_UNUSABLE:
printk(KERN_CONT "unusable");
break;
+ case E820_PMEM:
case E820_PRAM:
printk(KERN_CONT "persistent (type %u)", type);
break;
@@ -918,11 +919,32 @@ static inline const char *e820_type_to_string(int e820_type)
case E820_ACPI: return "ACPI Tables";
case E820_NVS: return "ACPI Non-volatile Storage";
case E820_UNUSABLE: return "Unusable memory";
- case E820_PRAM: return "Persistent RAM";
+ case E820_PRAM: return "Persistent Memory (legacy)";
+ case E820_PMEM: return "Persistent Memory";
default: return "reserved";
}
}
+static bool do_mark_busy(u32 type, struct resource *res)
+{
+ /* this is the legacy bios/dos rom-shadow + mmio region */
+ if (res->start < (1ULL<<20))
+ return true;
+
+ /*
+ * Treat persistent memory like device memory, i.e. reserve it
+ * for exclusive use of a driver
+ */
+ switch (type) {
+ case E820_RESERVED:
+ case E820_PRAM:
+ case E820_PMEM:
+ return false;
+ default:
+ return true;
+ }
+}
+
/*
* Mark e820 reserved areas as busy for the resource manager.
*/
@@ -952,9 +974,7 @@ void __init e820_reserve_resources(void)
* pci device BAR resource and insert them later in
* pcibios_resource_survey()
*/
- if (((e820.map[i].type != E820_RESERVED) &&
- (e820.map[i].type != E820_PRAM)) ||
- res->start < (1ULL<<20)) {
+ if (do_mark_busy(e820.map[i].type, res)) {
res->flags |= IORESOURCE_BUSY;
insert_resource(&iomem_resource, res);
}