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* libnvdimm, nfit: handle unarmed dimms, mark namespaces read-onlyDan Williams2015-06-261-0/+2
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Upon detection of an unarmed dimm in a region, arrange for descendant BTT, PMEM, or BLK instances to be read-only. A dimm is primarily marked "unarmed" via flags passed by platform firmware (NFIT). The flags in the NFIT memory device sub-structure indicate the state of the data on the nvdimm relative to its energy source or last "flush to persistence". For the most part there is nothing the driver can do but advertise the state of these flags in sysfs and emit a message if firmware indicates that the contents of the device may be corrupted. However, for the case of ACPI_NFIT_MEM_ARMED, the driver can arrange for the block devices incorporating that nvdimm to be marked read-only. This is a safe default as the data is still available and new writes are held off until the administrator either forces read-write mode, or the energy source becomes armed. A 'read_only' attribute is added to REGION devices to allow for overriding the default read-only policy of all descendant block devices. Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
* libnvdimm: enable iostatDan Williams2015-06-261-1/+6
| | | | | | | | This is disabled by default as the overhead is prohibitive, but if the user takes the action to turn it on we'll oblige. Reviewed-by: Vishal Verma <vishal.l.verma@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
* libnvdimm, blk: add support for blk integrityVishal Verma2015-06-261-21/+153
| | | | | | | | Support multiple block sizes (sector + metadata) for nd_blk in the same way as done for the BTT. Add the idea of an 'internal' lbasize, which is properly aligned and padded, and store metadata in this space. Signed-off-by: Vishal Verma <vishal.l.verma@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
* libnvdimm, nfit, nd_blk: driver for BLK-mode access persistent memoryRoss Zwisler2015-06-261-0/+245
The libnvdimm implementation handles allocating dimm address space (DPA) between PMEM and BLK mode interfaces. After DPA has been allocated from a BLK-region to a BLK-namespace the nd_blk driver attaches to handle I/O as a struct bio based block device. Unlike PMEM, BLK is required to handle platform specific details like mmio register formats and memory controller interleave. For this reason the libnvdimm generic nd_blk driver calls back into the bus provider to carry out the I/O. This initial implementation handles the BLK interface defined by the ACPI 6 NFIT [1] and the NVDIMM DSM Interface Example [2] composed from DCR (dimm control region), BDW (block data window), IDT (interleave descriptor) NFIT structures and the hardware register format. [1]: http://www.uefi.org/sites/default/files/resources/ACPI_6.0.pdf [2]: http://pmem.io/documents/NVDIMM_DSM_Interface_Example.pdf Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net> Cc: Boaz Harrosh <boaz@plexistor.com> Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Ross Zwisler <ross.zwisler@linux.intel.com> Acked-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>