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authorDan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>2015-05-31 15:02:11 -0400
committerDan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>2015-06-24 21:24:10 -0400
commit3d88002e4a7bd40f355550284c6cd140e6fe29dc (patch)
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parentlibnvdimm, nfit: regions (block-data-window, persistent memory, volatile memory) (diff)
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libnvdimm: support for legacy (non-aliasing) nvdimms
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>
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diff --git a/include/uapi/linux/ndctl.h b/include/uapi/linux/ndctl.h
index 37640916d146..174b6371dcc1 100644
--- a/include/uapi/linux/ndctl.h
+++ b/include/uapi/linux/ndctl.h
@@ -177,8 +177,18 @@ static inline const char *nvdimm_cmd_name(unsigned cmd)
#define ND_DEVICE_DIMM 1 /* nd_dimm: container for "config data" */
+#define ND_DEVICE_REGION_PMEM 2 /* nd_region: (parent of PMEM namespaces) */
+#define ND_DEVICE_REGION_BLK 3 /* nd_region: (parent of BLK namespaces) */
+#define ND_DEVICE_NAMESPACE_IO 4 /* legacy persistent memory */
+#define ND_DEVICE_NAMESPACE_PMEM 5 /* PMEM namespace (may alias with BLK) */
+#define ND_DEVICE_NAMESPACE_BLK 6 /* BLK namespace (may alias with PMEM) */
enum nd_driver_flags {
ND_DRIVER_DIMM = 1 << ND_DEVICE_DIMM,
+ ND_DRIVER_REGION_PMEM = 1 << ND_DEVICE_REGION_PMEM,
+ ND_DRIVER_REGION_BLK = 1 << ND_DEVICE_REGION_BLK,
+ ND_DRIVER_NAMESPACE_IO = 1 << ND_DEVICE_NAMESPACE_IO,
+ ND_DRIVER_NAMESPACE_PMEM = 1 << ND_DEVICE_NAMESPACE_PMEM,
+ ND_DRIVER_NAMESPACE_BLK = 1 << ND_DEVICE_NAMESPACE_BLK,
};
#endif /* __NDCTL_H__ */