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<title>linux-toradex.git/drivers/lightnvm/Kconfig, branch v5.0</title>
<subtitle>Linux kernel for Apalis and Colibri modules</subtitle>
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<entry>
<title>lightnvm: remove dependencies on BLK_DEV_NVME and PCI</title>
<updated>2018-10-09T14:25:05+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Matias Bjørling</name>
<email>mb@lightnvm.io</email>
</author>
<published>2018-10-09T11:11:31+00:00</published>
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No need to force NVMe device driver to be compiled in if the
lightnvm subsystem is selected. Also no need for PCI to be selected
as well, as it would be selected by the device driver that hooks into
the subsystem.

Signed-off-by: Matias Bjørling &lt;mb@lightnvm.io&gt;
Reviewed-by: Javier González &lt;javier@cnexlabs.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
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No need to force NVMe device driver to be compiled in if the
lightnvm subsystem is selected. Also no need for PCI to be selected
as well, as it would be selected by the device driver that hooks into
the subsystem.

Signed-off-by: Matias Bjørling &lt;mb@lightnvm.io&gt;
Reviewed-by: Javier González &lt;javier@cnexlabs.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>lightnvm: move NVM_DEBUG to pblk</title>
<updated>2018-07-13T14:14:31+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Matias Bjørling</name>
<email>mb@lightnvm.io</email>
</author>
<published>2018-07-13T08:48:37+00:00</published>
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There is no users of CONFIG_NVM_DEBUG in the LightNVM subsystem. All
users are in pblk. Rename NVM_DEBUG to NVM_PBLK_DEBUG and enable
only for pblk.

Also fix up the CONFIG_NVM_PBLK entry to follow the code style for
Kconfig files.

Signed-off-by: Matias Bjørling &lt;mb@lightnvm.io&gt;
Reviewed-by: Javier González &lt;javier@cnexlabs.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
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There is no users of CONFIG_NVM_DEBUG in the LightNVM subsystem. All
users are in pblk. Rename NVM_DEBUG to NVM_PBLK_DEBUG and enable
only for pblk.

Also fix up the CONFIG_NVM_PBLK entry to follow the code style for
Kconfig files.

Signed-off-by: Matias Bjørling &lt;mb@lightnvm.io&gt;
Reviewed-by: Javier González &lt;javier@cnexlabs.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>lightnvm: Remove depends on HAS_DMA in case of platform dependency</title>
<updated>2018-06-22T18:07:11+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Geert Uytterhoeven</name>
<email>geert@linux-m68k.org</email>
</author>
<published>2018-06-22T11:05:35+00:00</published>
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Remove dependencies on HAS_DMA where a Kconfig symbol depends on another
symbol that implies HAS_DMA, and, optionally, on "|| COMPILE_TEST".
In most cases this other symbol is an architecture or platform specific
symbol, or PCI.

Generic symbols and drivers without platform dependencies keep their
dependencies on HAS_DMA, to prevent compiling subsystems or drivers that
cannot work anyway.

This simplifies the dependencies, and allows to improve compile-testing.

Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven &lt;geert@linux-m68k.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Mark Brown &lt;broonie@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Robin Murphy &lt;robin.murphy@arm.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Matias Bjørling &lt;mb@lightnvm.io&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
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Remove dependencies on HAS_DMA where a Kconfig symbol depends on another
symbol that implies HAS_DMA, and, optionally, on "|| COMPILE_TEST".
In most cases this other symbol is an architecture or platform specific
symbol, or PCI.

Generic symbols and drivers without platform dependencies keep their
dependencies on HAS_DMA, to prevent compiling subsystems or drivers that
cannot work anyway.

This simplifies the dependencies, and allows to improve compile-testing.

Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven &lt;geert@linux-m68k.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Mark Brown &lt;broonie@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Robin Murphy &lt;robin.murphy@arm.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Matias Bjørling &lt;mb@lightnvm.io&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>lightnvm: remove rrpc</title>
<updated>2018-01-05T15:50:12+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Matias Bjørling</name>
<email>m@bjorling.me</email>
</author>
<published>2018-01-05T13:15:58+00:00</published>
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<content type='text'>
The hybrid mode for 1.2 revision was deprecated, and have
no users. Remove to make it easier to move to the 2.0 revision.

Signed-off-by: Matias Bjørling &lt;m@bjorling.me&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
</content>
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<pre>
The hybrid mode for 1.2 revision was deprecated, and have
no users. Remove to make it easier to move to the 2.0 revision.

Signed-off-by: Matias Bjørling &lt;m@bjorling.me&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>lightnvm: include NVM Express driver if OCSSD is selected for build</title>
<updated>2017-10-13T14:34:57+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Rakesh Pandit</name>
<email>rakesh@tuxera.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-10-13T12:45:55+00:00</published>
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<content type='text'>
Because NVM needs BLK_DEV_NVME, select it automatically if we mark NVM
in config file before building kernel.  Also append PCI to depends as
select doesn't automatically add dependencies.

Signed-off-by: Rakesh Pandit &lt;rakesh@tuxera.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Matias Bjørling &lt;m@bjorling.me&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
</content>
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<pre>
Because NVM needs BLK_DEV_NVME, select it automatically if we mark NVM
in config file before building kernel.  Also append PCI to depends as
select doesn't automatically add dependencies.

Signed-off-by: Rakesh Pandit &lt;rakesh@tuxera.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Matias Bjørling &lt;m@bjorling.me&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>lightnvm: physical block device (pblk) target</title>
<updated>2017-04-16T16:06:33+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Javier González</name>
<email>jg@lightnvm.io</email>
</author>
<published>2017-04-15T18:55:50+00:00</published>
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<content type='text'>
This patch introduces pblk, a host-side translation layer for
Open-Channel SSDs to expose them like block devices. The translation
layer allows data placement decisions, and I/O scheduling to be
managed by the host, enabling users to optimize the SSD for their
specific workloads.

An open-channel SSD has a set of LUNs (parallel units) and a
collection of blocks. Each block can be read in any order, but
writes must be sequential. Writes may also fail, and if a block
requires it, must also be reset before new writes can be
applied.

To manage the constraints, pblk maintains a logical to
physical address (L2P) table,  write cache, garbage
collection logic, recovery scheme, and logic to rate-limit
user I/Os versus garbage collection I/Os.

The L2P table is fully-associative and manages sectors at a
4KB granularity. Pblk stores the L2P table in two places, in
the out-of-band area of the media and on the last page of a
line. In the cause of a power failure, pblk will perform a
scan to recover the L2P table.

The user data is organized into lines. A line is data
striped across blocks and LUNs. The lines enable the host to
reduce the amount of metadata to maintain besides the user
data and makes it easier to implement RAID or erasure coding
in the future.

pblk implements multi-tenant support and can be instantiated
multiple times on the same drive. Each instance owns a
portion of the SSD - both regarding I/O bandwidth and
capacity - providing I/O isolation for each case.

Finally, pblk also exposes a sysfs interface that allows
user-space to peek into the internals of pblk. The interface
is available at /dev/block/*/pblk/ where * is the block
device name exposed.

This work also contains contributions from:
  Matias Bjørling &lt;matias@cnexlabs.com&gt;
  Simon A. F. Lund &lt;slund@cnexlabs.com&gt;
  Young Tack Jin &lt;youngtack.jin@gmail.com&gt;
  Huaicheng Li &lt;huaicheng@cs.uchicago.edu&gt;

Signed-off-by: Javier González &lt;javier@cnexlabs.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Matias Bjørling &lt;matias@cnexlabs.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@fb.com&gt;
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<pre>
This patch introduces pblk, a host-side translation layer for
Open-Channel SSDs to expose them like block devices. The translation
layer allows data placement decisions, and I/O scheduling to be
managed by the host, enabling users to optimize the SSD for their
specific workloads.

An open-channel SSD has a set of LUNs (parallel units) and a
collection of blocks. Each block can be read in any order, but
writes must be sequential. Writes may also fail, and if a block
requires it, must also be reset before new writes can be
applied.

To manage the constraints, pblk maintains a logical to
physical address (L2P) table,  write cache, garbage
collection logic, recovery scheme, and logic to rate-limit
user I/Os versus garbage collection I/Os.

The L2P table is fully-associative and manages sectors at a
4KB granularity. Pblk stores the L2P table in two places, in
the out-of-band area of the media and on the last page of a
line. In the cause of a power failure, pblk will perform a
scan to recover the L2P table.

The user data is organized into lines. A line is data
striped across blocks and LUNs. The lines enable the host to
reduce the amount of metadata to maintain besides the user
data and makes it easier to implement RAID or erasure coding
in the future.

pblk implements multi-tenant support and can be instantiated
multiple times on the same drive. Each instance owns a
portion of the SSD - both regarding I/O bandwidth and
capacity - providing I/O isolation for each case.

Finally, pblk also exposes a sysfs interface that allows
user-space to peek into the internals of pblk. The interface
is available at /dev/block/*/pblk/ where * is the block
device name exposed.

This work also contains contributions from:
  Matias Bjørling &lt;matias@cnexlabs.com&gt;
  Simon A. F. Lund &lt;slund@cnexlabs.com&gt;
  Young Tack Jin &lt;youngtack.jin@gmail.com&gt;
  Huaicheng Li &lt;huaicheng@cs.uchicago.edu&gt;

Signed-off-by: Javier González &lt;javier@cnexlabs.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Matias Bjørling &lt;matias@cnexlabs.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@fb.com&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>lightnvm: merge gennvm with core</title>
<updated>2017-01-31T15:32:13+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Matias Bjørling</name>
<email>matias@cnexlabs.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-01-31T12:17:09+00:00</published>
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For the first iteration of Open-Channel SSDs, it was anticipated that
there could be various media managers on top of an open-channel SSD,
such to allow vendors to plug in their own host-side FTLs, without the
media manager in between.

Now that an Open-Channel SSD is exposed as a traditional block device,
there is no longer a need for this. Therefore lets merge the gennvm code
with core and simplify the stack.

Signed-off-by: Matias Bjørling &lt;matias@cnexlabs.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@fb.com&gt;
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<pre>
For the first iteration of Open-Channel SSDs, it was anticipated that
there could be various media managers on top of an open-channel SSD,
such to allow vendors to plug in their own host-side FTLs, without the
media manager in between.

Now that an Open-Channel SSD is exposed as a traditional block device,
there is no longer a need for this. Therefore lets merge the gennvm code
with core and simplify the stack.

Signed-off-by: Matias Bjørling &lt;matias@cnexlabs.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@fb.com&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>lightnvm: NVM should depend on HAS_DMA</title>
<updated>2016-09-21T13:56:10+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Geert Uytterhoeven</name>
<email>geert@linux-m68k.org</email>
</author>
<published>2016-09-16T12:25:03+00:00</published>
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If NO_DMA=y:

    drivers/built-in.o: In function `nvme_nvm_dev_dma_free':
    lightnvm.c:(.text+0x23df1a): undefined reference to `dma_pool_free'
    drivers/built-in.o: In function `nvme_nvm_dev_dma_alloc':
    lightnvm.c:(.text+0x23df38): undefined reference to `dma_pool_alloc'
    drivers/built-in.o: In function `nvme_nvm_destroy_dma_pool':
    lightnvm.c:(.text+0x23df4c): undefined reference to `dma_pool_destroy'
    drivers/built-in.o: In function `nvme_nvm_create_dma_pool':
    lightnvm.c:(.text+0x23df7e): undefined reference to `dma_pool_create'

and

    ERROR: "dma_pool_destroy" [drivers/nvme/host/nvme-core.ko] undefined!
    ERROR: "dma_pool_free" [drivers/nvme/host/nvme-core.ko] undefined!
    ERROR: "dma_pool_alloc" [drivers/nvme/host/nvme-core.ko] undefined!
    ERROR: "dma_pool_create" [drivers/nvme/host/nvme-core.ko] undefined!

Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven &lt;geert@linux-m68k.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Matias Bjørling &lt;m@bjorling.me&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@fb.com&gt;
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If NO_DMA=y:

    drivers/built-in.o: In function `nvme_nvm_dev_dma_free':
    lightnvm.c:(.text+0x23df1a): undefined reference to `dma_pool_free'
    drivers/built-in.o: In function `nvme_nvm_dev_dma_alloc':
    lightnvm.c:(.text+0x23df38): undefined reference to `dma_pool_alloc'
    drivers/built-in.o: In function `nvme_nvm_destroy_dma_pool':
    lightnvm.c:(.text+0x23df4c): undefined reference to `dma_pool_destroy'
    drivers/built-in.o: In function `nvme_nvm_create_dma_pool':
    lightnvm.c:(.text+0x23df7e): undefined reference to `dma_pool_create'

and

    ERROR: "dma_pool_destroy" [drivers/nvme/host/nvme-core.ko] undefined!
    ERROR: "dma_pool_free" [drivers/nvme/host/nvme-core.ko] undefined!
    ERROR: "dma_pool_alloc" [drivers/nvme/host/nvme-core.ko] undefined!
    ERROR: "dma_pool_create" [drivers/nvme/host/nvme-core.ko] undefined!

Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven &lt;geert@linux-m68k.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Matias Bjørling &lt;m@bjorling.me&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@fb.com&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>lightnvm: rename gennvm and update description</title>
<updated>2016-07-07T14:51:52+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Matias Bjørling</name>
<email>m@bjorling.me</email>
</author>
<published>2016-07-07T07:54:15+00:00</published>
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<content type='text'>
The generic manager should be called the general media manager, and
instead of using the rather long name of "gennvm" in front of each data
structures, use "gen" instead to shorten it. Update the description of
the media manager as well to make the media manager purpose clearer.

Signed-off-by: Matias Bjørling &lt;m@bjorling.me&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@fb.com&gt;
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The generic manager should be called the general media manager, and
instead of using the rather long name of "gennvm" in front of each data
structures, use "gen" instead to shorten it. Update the description of
the media manager as well to make the media manager purpose clearer.

Signed-off-by: Matias Bjørling &lt;m@bjorling.me&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@fb.com&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>lightnvm: do not compile in debugging by default</title>
<updated>2015-12-07T16:14:20+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Matias Bjørling</name>
<email>m@bjorling.me</email>
</author>
<published>2015-12-06T10:25:51+00:00</published>
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<content type='text'>
The LightNVM module exposes a debug interface when CONFIG_NVM_DEBUG is
set. This interfaces takes a string to configure media managers and
targets. Make sure this interface is only exposed when chosen
deliberately.

Signed-off-by: Matias Bjørling &lt;m@bjorling.me&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@fb.com&gt;
</content>
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<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>
<pre>
The LightNVM module exposes a debug interface when CONFIG_NVM_DEBUG is
set. This interfaces takes a string to configure media managers and
targets. Make sure this interface is only exposed when chosen
deliberately.

Signed-off-by: Matias Bjørling &lt;m@bjorling.me&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@fb.com&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
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