Merge branch 'acpi-mm'

* acpi-mm:
  ACPI: HMAT: use %u instead of %d to print u32 values
  ACPI: NUMA: HMAT: fix a section mismatch
  ACPI: HMAT: don't mix pxm and nid when setting memory target processor_pxm
  ACPI: NUMA: HMAT: Register "soft reserved" memory as an "hmem" device
  ACPI: NUMA: HMAT: Register HMAT at device_initcall level
  device-dax: Add a driver for "hmem" devices
  dax: Fix alloc_dax_region() compile warning
  lib: Uplevel the pmem "region" ida to a global allocator
  x86/efi: Add efi_fake_mem support for EFI_MEMORY_SP
  arm/efi: EFI soft reservation to memblock
  x86/efi: EFI soft reservation to E820 enumeration
  efi: Common enable/disable infrastructure for EFI soft reservation
  x86/efi: Push EFI_MEMMAP check into leaf routines
  efi: Enumerate EFI_MEMORY_SP
  ACPI: NUMA: Establish a new drivers/acpi/numa/ directory

1 files changed, 16 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt
index a84a83f8881e..5eee3ea05ac5 100644
--- a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt
+++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt
@@ -1168,7 +1168,8 @@
 			Format: {"off" | "on" | "skip[mbr]"}
 
 	efi=		[EFI]
-			Format: { "old_map", "nochunk", "noruntime", "debug" }
+			Format: { "old_map", "nochunk", "noruntime", "debug",
+				  "nosoftreserve" }
 			old_map [X86-64]: switch to the old ioremap-based EFI
 			runtime services mapping. 32-bit still uses this one by
 			default.
@@ -1177,6 +1178,12 @@
 			firmware implementations.
 			noruntime : disable EFI runtime services support
 			debug: enable misc debug output
+			nosoftreserve: The EFI_MEMORY_SP (Specific Purpose)
+			attribute may cause the kernel to reserve the
+			memory range for a memory mapping driver to
+			claim. Specify efi=nosoftreserve to disable this
+			reservation and treat the memory by its base type
+			(i.e. EFI_CONVENTIONAL_MEMORY / "System RAM").
 
 	efi_no_storage_paranoia [EFI; X86]
 			Using this parameter you can use more than 50% of
@@ -1189,15 +1196,21 @@
 			updating original EFI memory map.
 			Region of memory which aa attribute is added to is
 			from ss to ss+nn.
+
 			If efi_fake_mem=2G@4G:0x10000,2G@0x10a0000000:0x10000
 			is specified, EFI_MEMORY_MORE_RELIABLE(0x10000)
 			attribute is added to range 0x100000000-0x180000000 and
 			0x10a0000000-0x1120000000.
 
+			If efi_fake_mem=8G@9G:0x40000 is specified, the
+			EFI_MEMORY_SP(0x40000) attribute is added to
+			range 0x240000000-0x43fffffff.
+
 			Using this parameter you can do debugging of EFI memmap
-			related feature. For example, you can do debugging of
+			related features. For example, you can do debugging of
 			Address Range Mirroring feature even if your box
-			doesn't support it.
+			doesn't support it, or mark specific memory as
+			"soft reserved".
 
 	efivar_ssdt=	[EFI; X86] Name of an EFI variable that contains an SSDT
 			that is to be dynamically loaded by Linux. If there are