From d4dd70915ea82b7196108c1f0102bc09295c4513 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Dan Williams Date: Sun, 3 Jun 2018 12:49:15 -0700 Subject: acpi, nfit: Remove ecc_unit_size The "Clear Error Unit" may be smaller than the ECC unit size on some devices. For example, poison may be tracked at 64-byte alignment even though the ECC unit is larger. Unless / until the ACPI specification provides a non-ambiguous way to communicate this property do not expose this to userspace. Software that had been using this property must already be prepared for the case where the property is not provided on older kernels, so it is safe to remove this attribute. Signed-off-by: Dan Williams --- Documentation/ABI/removed/sysfs-bus-nfit | 17 +++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 17 insertions(+) create mode 100644 Documentation/ABI/removed/sysfs-bus-nfit (limited to 'Documentation/ABI/removed') diff --git a/Documentation/ABI/removed/sysfs-bus-nfit b/Documentation/ABI/removed/sysfs-bus-nfit new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..ae8c1ca53828 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/ABI/removed/sysfs-bus-nfit @@ -0,0 +1,17 @@ +What: /sys/bus/nd/devices/regionX/nfit/ecc_unit_size +Date: Aug, 2017 +KernelVersion: v4.14 (Removed v4.18) +Contact: linux-nvdimm@lists.01.org +Description: + (RO) Size of a write request to a DIMM that will not incur a + read-modify-write cycle at the memory controller. + + When the nfit driver initializes it runs an ARS (Address Range + Scrub) operation across every pmem range. Part of that process + involves determining the ARS capabilities of a given address + range. One of the capabilities that is reported is the 'Clear + Uncorrectable Error Range Length Unit Size' (see: ACPI 6.2 + section 9.20.7.4 Function Index 1 - Query ARS Capabilities). + This property indicates the boundary at which the NVDIMM may + need to perform read-modify-write cycles to maintain ECC (Error + Correcting Code) blocks. -- cgit v1.2.3-59-g8ed1b