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<title>linux-toradex.git/drivers/lightnvm, branch v4.5-rc3</title>
<subtitle>Linux kernel for Apalis and Colibri modules</subtitle>
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<title>lightnvm: introduce factory reset</title>
<updated>2016-01-12T15:21:18+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Matias Bjørling</name>
<email>m@bjorling.me</email>
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<published>2016-01-12T06:49:39+00:00</published>
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Now that a device can be managed using the system blocks, a method to
reset the device is necessary as well. This patch introduces logic to
reset the device easily to factory state and exposes it through an
ioctl.

The ioctl takes the following flags:

  NVM_FACTORY_ERASE_ONLY_USER
      By default all blocks, except host-reserved blocks are erased upon
      factory reset. Instead of this, only erase host-reserved blocks.
  NVM_FACTORY_RESET_HOST_BLKS
      Mark host-reserved blocks to be erased and set their type to free.
  NVM_FACTORY_RESET_GRWN_BBLKS
      Mark "grown bad blocks" to be erased and set their type to free.

Signed-off-by: Matias Bjørling &lt;m@bjorling.me&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@fb.com&gt;
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Now that a device can be managed using the system blocks, a method to
reset the device is necessary as well. This patch introduces logic to
reset the device easily to factory state and exposes it through an
ioctl.

The ioctl takes the following flags:

  NVM_FACTORY_ERASE_ONLY_USER
      By default all blocks, except host-reserved blocks are erased upon
      factory reset. Instead of this, only erase host-reserved blocks.
  NVM_FACTORY_RESET_HOST_BLKS
      Mark host-reserved blocks to be erased and set their type to free.
  NVM_FACTORY_RESET_GRWN_BBLKS
      Mark "grown bad blocks" to be erased and set their type to free.

Signed-off-by: Matias Bjørling &lt;m@bjorling.me&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@fb.com&gt;
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<title>lightnvm: use system block for mm initialization</title>
<updated>2016-01-12T15:21:18+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Matias Bjørling</name>
<email>m@bjorling.me</email>
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<published>2016-01-12T06:49:38+00:00</published>
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Use system block information to register the appropriate media manager.
This enables the LightNVM subsystem to instantiate a media manager
selected by the user, instead of relying on automatic detection by each
media manager loaded in the kernel.

A device must now be initialized before it can proceed to initialize its
media manager. Upon initialization, the configured media manager is
automatically initialized as well.

Signed-off-by: Matias Bjørling &lt;m@bjorling.me&gt;
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Use system block information to register the appropriate media manager.
This enables the LightNVM subsystem to instantiate a media manager
selected by the user, instead of relying on automatic detection by each
media manager loaded in the kernel.

A device must now be initialized before it can proceed to initialize its
media manager. Upon initialization, the configured media manager is
automatically initialized as well.

Signed-off-by: Matias Bjørling &lt;m@bjorling.me&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@fb.com&gt;
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<title>lightnvm: introduce ioctl to initialize device</title>
<updated>2016-01-12T15:21:18+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Matias Bjørling</name>
<email>m@bjorling.me</email>
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<published>2016-01-12T06:49:37+00:00</published>
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Based on the previous patch, we now introduce an ioctl to initialize the
device using nvm_init_sysblock and create the necessary system blocks.
The user may specify the media manager that they wish to instantiate on
top. Default from user-space will be "gennvm".

Signed-off-by: Matias Bjørling &lt;m@bjorling.me&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@fb.com&gt;
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Based on the previous patch, we now introduce an ioctl to initialize the
device using nvm_init_sysblock and create the necessary system blocks.
The user may specify the media manager that they wish to instantiate on
top. Default from user-space will be "gennvm".

Signed-off-by: Matias Bjørling &lt;m@bjorling.me&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@fb.com&gt;
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<title>lightnvm: core on-disk initialization</title>
<updated>2016-01-12T15:21:18+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Matias Bjørling</name>
<email>m@bjorling.me</email>
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<published>2016-01-12T06:49:36+00:00</published>
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An Open-Channel SSD shall be initialized before use. To initialize, we
define an on-disk format, that keeps a small set of metadata to bring up
the media manager on top of the device.

The initial step is introduced to allow a user to format the disks for a
given media manager. During format, a system block is stored on one to
three separate luns on the device. Each lun has the system block
duplicated. During initialization, the system block can be retrieved and
the appropriate media manager can initialized.

The on-disk format currently covers (struct nvm_system_block):

 - Magic value "NVMS".
 - Monotonic increasing sequence number.
 - The physical block erase count.
 - Version of the system block format.
 - Media manager type.
 - Media manager superblock physical address.

The interface provides three functions to manage the system block:

 int nvm_init_sysblock(struct nvm_dev *, struct nvm_sb_info *)
 int nvm_get_sysblock(struct nvm *dev, struct nvm_sb_info *)
 int nvm_update_sysblock(struct nvm *dev, struct nvm_sb_info *)

Each implement a part of the logic to manage the system block. The
initialization creates the first system blocks and mark them on the
device. Get retrieves the latest system block by scanning all pages in
the associated system blocks. The update sysblock writes new metadata
and allocates new block if necessary.

Signed-off-by: Matias Bjørling &lt;m@bjorling.me&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@fb.com&gt;
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An Open-Channel SSD shall be initialized before use. To initialize, we
define an on-disk format, that keeps a small set of metadata to bring up
the media manager on top of the device.

The initial step is introduced to allow a user to format the disks for a
given media manager. During format, a system block is stored on one to
three separate luns on the device. Each lun has the system block
duplicated. During initialization, the system block can be retrieved and
the appropriate media manager can initialized.

The on-disk format currently covers (struct nvm_system_block):

 - Magic value "NVMS".
 - Monotonic increasing sequence number.
 - The physical block erase count.
 - Version of the system block format.
 - Media manager type.
 - Media manager superblock physical address.

The interface provides three functions to manage the system block:

 int nvm_init_sysblock(struct nvm_dev *, struct nvm_sb_info *)
 int nvm_get_sysblock(struct nvm *dev, struct nvm_sb_info *)
 int nvm_update_sysblock(struct nvm *dev, struct nvm_sb_info *)

Each implement a part of the logic to manage the system block. The
initialization creates the first system blocks and mark them on the
device. Get retrieves the latest system block by scanning all pages in
the associated system blocks. The update sysblock writes new metadata
and allocates new block if necessary.

Signed-off-by: Matias Bjørling &lt;m@bjorling.me&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@fb.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>lightnvm: introduce mlc lower page table mappings</title>
<updated>2016-01-12T15:21:17+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Matias Bjørling</name>
<email>m@bjorling.me</email>
</author>
<published>2016-01-12T06:49:35+00:00</published>
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NAND MLC memories have both lower and upper pages. When programming,
both of these must be written, before data can be read. However,
these lower and upper pages might not placed at even and odd flash
pages, but can be skipped. Therefore each flash memory has its lower
pages defined, which can then be used when programming and to know when
padding are necessary.

This patch implements the lower page definition in the specification,
and exposes it through a simple lookup table at dev-&gt;lptbl.

Signed-off-by: Matias Bjørling &lt;m@bjorling.me&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@fb.com&gt;
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NAND MLC memories have both lower and upper pages. When programming,
both of these must be written, before data can be read. However,
these lower and upper pages might not placed at even and odd flash
pages, but can be skipped. Therefore each flash memory has its lower
pages defined, which can then be used when programming and to know when
padding are necessary.

This patch implements the lower page definition in the specification,
and exposes it through a simple lookup table at dev-&gt;lptbl.

Signed-off-by: Matias Bjørling &lt;m@bjorling.me&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@fb.com&gt;
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<title>lightnvm: add mccap support</title>
<updated>2016-01-12T15:21:17+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Matias Bjørling</name>
<email>m@bjorling.me</email>
</author>
<published>2016-01-12T06:49:34+00:00</published>
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Some flash media has extended capabilities, such as programming SLC
pages on MLC/TLC flash, erase/program suspend, scramble and encryption.
MCCAP is introduced to detect support for these capabilities in the
command set.

Signed-off-by: Matias Bjørling &lt;m@bjorling.me&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@fb.com&gt;
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Some flash media has extended capabilities, such as programming SLC
pages on MLC/TLC flash, erase/program suspend, scramble and encryption.
MCCAP is introduced to detect support for these capabilities in the
command set.

Signed-off-by: Matias Bjørling &lt;m@bjorling.me&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@fb.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>lightnvm: manage open and closed blocks separately</title>
<updated>2016-01-12T15:21:17+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Javier González</name>
<email>jg@lightnvm.io</email>
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<published>2016-01-12T06:49:33+00:00</published>
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LightNVM targets need to know the state of the flash block when doing
flash optimizations. An example is implementing a write buffer to
respect the flash page size. Currently, block state is not accounted
for; the media manager only differentiates among free, bad and in-use
blocks.

This patch adds the logic in the generic media manager to enable
targets manage blocks into open and close separately, and it implements
such management in rrpc. It also adds a set of flags to describe the
state of the block (open, closed, free, bad).

In order to avoid taking two locks (nvm_lun and rrpc_lun) consecutively,
we introduce lockless get_/put_block primitives so that the open and
close list locks and future common logic is handled within the nvm_lun
lock.

Signed-off-by: Javier González &lt;javier@cnexlabs.com&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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LightNVM targets need to know the state of the flash block when doing
flash optimizations. An example is implementing a write buffer to
respect the flash page size. Currently, block state is not accounted
for; the media manager only differentiates among free, bad and in-use
blocks.

This patch adds the logic in the generic media manager to enable
targets manage blocks into open and close separately, and it implements
such management in rrpc. It also adds a set of flags to describe the
state of the block (open, closed, free, bad).

In order to avoid taking two locks (nvm_lun and rrpc_lun) consecutively,
we introduce lockless get_/put_block primitives so that the open and
close list locks and future common logic is handled within the nvm_lun
lock.

Signed-off-by: Javier González &lt;javier@cnexlabs.com&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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<title>lightnvm: reference rrpc lun in rrpc block</title>
<updated>2016-01-12T15:21:17+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Javier González</name>
<email>javier@javigon.com</email>
</author>
<published>2016-01-12T06:49:31+00:00</published>
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Currently, a rrpc block only points to its nvm_lun. If a user wants to
find the associated rrpc lun, it will have to calculate the index and
look it up manually. By referencing the rrpc lun directly, this step can
be omitted, at the cost of a larger memory footprint.

This is important for upcoming patches that implement write buffering in
rrpc.

Signed-off-by: Javier González &lt;javier@cnexlabs.com&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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Currently, a rrpc block only points to its nvm_lun. If a user wants to
find the associated rrpc lun, it will have to calculate the index and
look it up manually. By referencing the rrpc lun directly, this step can
be omitted, at the cost of a larger memory footprint.

This is important for upcoming patches that implement write buffering in
rrpc.

Signed-off-by: Javier González &lt;javier@cnexlabs.com&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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<title>lightnvm: introduce nvm_submit_ppa</title>
<updated>2016-01-12T15:21:17+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Matias Bjørling</name>
<email>m@bjorling.me</email>
</author>
<published>2016-01-12T06:49:30+00:00</published>
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Internal logic for both core and media managers, does not have a
backing bio for issuing I/Os. Introduce nvm_submit_ppa to allow raw
I/Os to be submitted to the underlying device driver.

The function request the device, ppa, data buffer and its length and
will submit the I/O synchronously to the device. The return value may
therefore be used to detect any errors regarding the issued I/O.

Signed-off-by: Matias Bjørling &lt;m@bjorling.me&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@fb.com&gt;
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Internal logic for both core and media managers, does not have a
backing bio for issuing I/Os. Introduce nvm_submit_ppa to allow raw
I/Os to be submitted to the underlying device driver.

The function request the device, ppa, data buffer and its length and
will submit the I/O synchronously to the device. The return value may
therefore be used to detect any errors regarding the issued I/O.

Signed-off-by: Matias Bjørling &lt;m@bjorling.me&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@fb.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>lightnvm: move rq-&gt;error to nvm_rq-&gt;error</title>
<updated>2016-01-12T15:21:17+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Matias Bjørling</name>
<email>m@bjorling.me</email>
</author>
<published>2016-01-12T06:49:29+00:00</published>
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Instead of passing request error into the LightNVM modules, incorporate
it into the nvm_rq.

Signed-off-by: Matias Bjørling &lt;m@bjorling.me&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@fb.com&gt;
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Instead of passing request error into the LightNVM modules, incorporate
it into the nvm_rq.

Signed-off-by: Matias Bjørling &lt;m@bjorling.me&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@fb.com&gt;
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