Platforms like QEMU-KVM implement an NFIT table and label DSMs.
However, since that environment does not define an aliased
configuration, the labels are currently ignored and the kernel registers
a single full-sized pmem-namespace per region. Now that the kernel
supports sub-divisions of pmem regions the labels have a purpose.
Arrange for the labels to be honored when we find an existing / valid
namespace index block.
Cc: <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>
Cc: Haozhong Zhang <haozhong.zhang@intel.com>
Cc: Xiao Guangrong <guangrong.xiao@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
'ndctl list --buses --dimms' does not list any NVDIMM-Ns since
they are considered as idle. ndctl checks if any driver is
attached to nmem device. nvdimm_probe() always fails in
nvdimm_init_nsarea() since NVDIMM-Ns do not implement optinal
ND_CMD_GET_CONFIG_DATA command.
Change nvdimm_probe() to accept the case that the CONFIG_DATA
command is not implemented for NVDIMM-Ns. The driver attaches
without ndd, which keeps it no-op to the device.
Reported-by: Brian Boylston <brian.boylston@hpe.com>
Signed-off-by: Toshi Kani <toshi.kani@hpe.com>
Cc: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Tested-by: Johannes Thumshirn <jthumshirn@suse.de>
Acked-by: Johannes Thumshirn <jthumshirn@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
A complete label set is a PMEM-label per-dimm per-interleave-set where
all the UUIDs match and the interleave set cookie matches the hosting
interleave set.
Present sysfs attributes for manipulation of a PMEM-namespace's
'alt_name', 'uuid', and 'size' attributes. A later patch will make
these settings persistent by writing back the label.
Note that PMEM allocations grow forwards from the start of an interleave
set (lowest dimm-physical-address (DPA)). BLK-namespaces that alias
with a PMEM interleave set will grow allocations backward from the
highest DPA.
Cc: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Acked-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
This on media label format [1] consists of two index blocks followed by
an array of labels. None of these structures are ever updated in place.
A sequence number tracks the current active index and the next one to
write, while labels are written to free slots.
+------------+
| |
| nsindex0 |
| |
+------------+
| |
| nsindex1 |
| |
+------------+
| label0 |
+------------+
| label1 |
+------------+
| |
....nslot...
| |
+------------+
| labelN |
+------------+
After reading valid labels, store the dpa ranges they claim into
per-dimm resource trees.
[1]: http://pmem.io/documents/NVDIMM_Namespace_Spec.pdf
Cc: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Acked-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
The libnvdimm region driver is an intermediary driver that translates
non-volatile "region"s into "namespace" sub-devices that are surfaced by
persistent memory block-device drivers (PMEM and BLK).
ACPI 6 introduces the concept that a given nvdimm may simultaneously
offer multiple access modes to its media through direct PMEM load/store
access, or windowed BLK mode. Existing nvdimms mostly implement a PMEM
interface, some offer a BLK-like mode, but never both as ACPI 6 defines.
If an nvdimm is single interfaced, then there is no need for dimm
metadata labels. For these devices we can take the region boundaries
directly to create a child namespace device (nd_namespace_io).
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>
* Implement the device-model infrastructure for loading modules and
attaching drivers to nvdimm devices. This is a simple association of a
nd-device-type number with a driver that has a bitmask of supported
device types. To facilitate userspace bind/unbind operations 'modalias'
and 'devtype', that also appear in the uevent, are added as generic
sysfs attributes for all nvdimm devices. The reason for the device-type
number is to support sub-types within a given parent devtype, be it a
vendor-specific sub-type or otherwise.
* The first consumer of this infrastructure is the driver
for dimm devices. It simply uses control messages to retrieve and
store the configuration-data image (label set) from each dimm.
Note: nd_device_register() arranges for asynchronous registration of
nvdimm bus devices by default.
Cc: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
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>
Dan Williams