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<title>linux-toradex.git/include/linux/libnvdimm.h, branch v4.9-rc2</title>
<subtitle>Linux kernel for Apalis and Colibri modules</subtitle>
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<entry>
<title>libnvdimm, region: move region-mapping input-paramters to nd_mapping_desc</title>
<updated>2016-10-01T02:13:42+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Dan Williams</name>
<email>dan.j.williams@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2016-09-19T23:38:50+00:00</published>
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Before we add more libnvdimm-private fields to nd_mapping make it clear
which parameters are input vs libnvdimm internals. Use struct
nd_mapping_desc instead of struct nd_mapping in nd_region_desc and make
struct nd_mapping private to libnvdimm.

Signed-off-by: Dan Williams &lt;dan.j.williams@intel.com&gt;
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Before we add more libnvdimm-private fields to nd_mapping make it clear
which parameters are input vs libnvdimm internals. Use struct
nd_mapping_desc instead of struct nd_mapping in nd_region_desc and make
struct nd_mapping private to libnvdimm.

Signed-off-by: Dan Williams &lt;dan.j.williams@intel.com&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>libnvdimm: clear the internal poison_list when clearing badblocks</title>
<updated>2016-10-01T00:03:45+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Vishal Verma</name>
<email>vishal.l.verma@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2016-09-30T23:19:31+00:00</published>
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nvdimm_clear_poison cleared the user-visible badblocks, and sent
commands to the NVDIMM to clear the areas marked as 'poison', but it
neglected to clear the same areas from the internal poison_list which is
used to marshal ARS results before sorting them by namespace. As a
result, once on-demand ARS functionality was added:

37b137f nfit, libnvdimm: allow an ARS scrub to be triggered on demand

A scrub triggered from either sysfs or an MCE was found to be adding
stale entries that had been cleared from gendisk-&gt;badblocks, but were
still present in nvdimm_bus-&gt;poison_list. Additionally, the stale entries
could be triggered into producing stale disk-&gt;badblocks by simply disabling
and re-enabling the namespace or region.

This adds the missing step of clearing poison_list entries when clearing
poison, so that it is always in sync with badblocks.

Fixes: 37b137f ("nfit, libnvdimm: allow an ARS scrub to be triggered on demand")
Signed-off-by: Vishal Verma &lt;vishal.l.verma@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams &lt;dan.j.williams@intel.com&gt;
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nvdimm_clear_poison cleared the user-visible badblocks, and sent
commands to the NVDIMM to clear the areas marked as 'poison', but it
neglected to clear the same areas from the internal poison_list which is
used to marshal ARS results before sorting them by namespace. As a
result, once on-demand ARS functionality was added:

37b137f nfit, libnvdimm: allow an ARS scrub to be triggered on demand

A scrub triggered from either sysfs or an MCE was found to be adding
stale entries that had been cleared from gendisk-&gt;badblocks, but were
still present in nvdimm_bus-&gt;poison_list. Additionally, the stale entries
could be triggered into producing stale disk-&gt;badblocks by simply disabling
and re-enabling the namespace or region.

This adds the missing step of clearing poison_list entries when clearing
poison, so that it is always in sync with badblocks.

Fixes: 37b137f ("nfit, libnvdimm: allow an ARS scrub to be triggered on demand")
Signed-off-by: Vishal Verma &lt;vishal.l.verma@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams &lt;dan.j.williams@intel.com&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>acpi, nfit: add dimm device notification support</title>
<updated>2016-08-29T21:55:17+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Dan Williams</name>
<email>dan.j.williams@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2016-08-23T02:28:37+00:00</published>
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Per "ACPI 6.1 Section 9.20.3" NVDIMM devices, children of the ACPI0012
NVDIMM Root device, can receive health event notifications.

Given that these devices are precluded from registering a notification
handler via acpi_driver.acpi_device_ops (due to no _HID), we use
acpi_install_notify_handler() directly.  The registered handler,
acpi_nvdimm_notify(), triggers a poll(2) event on the nmemX/nfit/flags
sysfs attribute when a health event notification is received.

Cc: Rafael J. Wysocki &lt;rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com&gt;
Tested-by: Toshi Kani &lt;toshi.kani@hpe.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Vishal Verma &lt;vishal.l.verma@intel.com&gt;
Acked-by: Rafael J. Wysocki &lt;rafael@kernel.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Toshi Kani &lt;toshi.kani@hpe.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams &lt;dan.j.williams@intel.com&gt;
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Per "ACPI 6.1 Section 9.20.3" NVDIMM devices, children of the ACPI0012
NVDIMM Root device, can receive health event notifications.

Given that these devices are precluded from registering a notification
handler via acpi_driver.acpi_device_ops (due to no _HID), we use
acpi_install_notify_handler() directly.  The registered handler,
acpi_nvdimm_notify(), triggers a poll(2) event on the nmemX/nfit/flags
sysfs attribute when a health event notification is received.

Cc: Rafael J. Wysocki &lt;rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com&gt;
Tested-by: Toshi Kani &lt;toshi.kani@hpe.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Vishal Verma &lt;vishal.l.verma@intel.com&gt;
Acked-by: Rafael J. Wysocki &lt;rafael@kernel.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Toshi Kani &lt;toshi.kani@hpe.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams &lt;dan.j.williams@intel.com&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>nfit, libnvdimm: allow an ARS scrub to be triggered on demand</title>
<updated>2016-07-24T04:51:42+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Vishal Verma</name>
<email>vishal.l.verma@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2016-07-24T04:51:42+00:00</published>
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Normally, an ARS (Address Range Scrub) only happens at
boot/initialization time. There can however arise situations where a
bus-wide rescan is needed - notably, in the case of discovering a latent
media error, we should do a full rescan to figure out what other sectors
are bad, and thus potentially avoid triggering an mce on them in the
future. Also provide a sysfs trigger to start a bus-wide scrub.

Cc: Rafael J. Wysocki &lt;rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Vishal Verma &lt;vishal.l.verma@intel.com&gt;
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Normally, an ARS (Address Range Scrub) only happens at
boot/initialization time. There can however arise situations where a
bus-wide rescan is needed - notably, in the case of discovering a latent
media error, we should do a full rescan to figure out what other sectors
are bad, and thus potentially avoid triggering an mce on them in the
future. Also provide a sysfs trigger to start a bus-wide scrub.

Cc: Rafael J. Wysocki &lt;rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Vishal Verma &lt;vishal.l.verma@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams &lt;dan.j.williams@intel.com&gt;</pre>
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>libnvdimm: move -&gt;module to struct nvdimm_bus_descriptor</title>
<updated>2016-07-22T03:03:19+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Dan Williams</name>
<email>dan.j.williams@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2016-07-22T03:03:19+00:00</published>
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Let the provider module be explicitly passed in rather than implicitly
assumed by the module that calls nvdimm_bus_register().  This is in
preparation for unifying the nfit and nfit_test driver teardown paths.

Reviewed-by: Lee, Chun-Yi &lt;jlee@suse.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams &lt;dan.j.williams@intel.com&gt;
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Let the provider module be explicitly passed in rather than implicitly
assumed by the module that calls nvdimm_bus_register().  This is in
preparation for unifying the nfit and nfit_test driver teardown paths.

Reviewed-by: Lee, Chun-Yi &lt;jlee@suse.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams &lt;dan.j.williams@intel.com&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>libnvdimm: introduce nvdimm_flush() and nvdimm_has_flush()</title>
<updated>2016-07-11T23:13:42+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Dan Williams</name>
<email>dan.j.williams@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2016-07-08T02:44:50+00:00</published>
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nvdimm_flush() is a replacement for the x86 'pcommit' instruction.  It is
an optional write flushing mechanism that an nvdimm bus can provide for
the pmem driver to consume.  In the case of the NFIT nvdimm-bus-provider
nvdimm_flush() is implemented as a series of flush-hint-address [1]
writes to each dimm in the interleave set (region) that backs the
namespace.

The nvdimm_has_flush() routine relies on platform firmware to describe
the flushing capabilities of a platform.  It uses the heuristic of
whether an nvdimm bus provider provides flush address data to return a
ternary result:

      1: flush addresses defined
      0: dimm topology described without flush addresses (assume ADR)
 -errno: no topology information, unable to determine flush mechanism

The pmem driver is expected to take the following actions on this ternary
result:

      1: nvdimm_flush() in response to REQ_FUA / REQ_FLUSH and shutdown
      0: do not set, WC or FUA on the queue, take no further action
 -errno: warn and then operate as if nvdimm_has_flush() returned '0'

The caveat of this heuristic is that it can not distinguish the "dimm
does not have flush address" case from the "platform firmware is broken
and failed to describe a flush address".  Given we are already
explicitly trusting the NFIT there's not much more we can do beyond
blacklisting broken firmwares if they are ever encountered.

Cc: Ross Zwisler &lt;ross.zwisler@linux.intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams &lt;dan.j.williams@intel.com&gt;
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nvdimm_flush() is a replacement for the x86 'pcommit' instruction.  It is
an optional write flushing mechanism that an nvdimm bus can provide for
the pmem driver to consume.  In the case of the NFIT nvdimm-bus-provider
nvdimm_flush() is implemented as a series of flush-hint-address [1]
writes to each dimm in the interleave set (region) that backs the
namespace.

The nvdimm_has_flush() routine relies on platform firmware to describe
the flushing capabilities of a platform.  It uses the heuristic of
whether an nvdimm bus provider provides flush address data to return a
ternary result:

      1: flush addresses defined
      0: dimm topology described without flush addresses (assume ADR)
 -errno: no topology information, unable to determine flush mechanism

The pmem driver is expected to take the following actions on this ternary
result:

      1: nvdimm_flush() in response to REQ_FUA / REQ_FLUSH and shutdown
      0: do not set, WC or FUA on the queue, take no further action
 -errno: warn and then operate as if nvdimm_has_flush() returned '0'

The caveat of this heuristic is that it can not distinguish the "dimm
does not have flush address" case from the "platform firmware is broken
and failed to describe a flush address".  Given we are already
explicitly trusting the NFIT there's not much more we can do beyond
blacklisting broken firmwares if they are ever encountered.

Cc: Ross Zwisler &lt;ross.zwisler@linux.intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams &lt;dan.j.williams@intel.com&gt;
</pre>
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>libnvdimm, nfit: move flush hint mapping to region-device driver-data</title>
<updated>2016-07-11T22:09:26+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Dan Williams</name>
<email>dan.j.williams@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2016-06-08T00:00:04+00:00</published>
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In preparation for triggering flushes of a DIMM's writes-posted-queue
(WPQ) via the pmem driver move mapping of flush hint addresses to the
region driver.  Since this uses devm_nvdimm_memremap() the flush
addresses will remain mapped while any region to which the dimm belongs
is active.

We need to communicate more information to the nvdimm core to facilitate
this mapping, namely each dimm object now carries an array of flush hint
address resources.

Signed-off-by: Dan Williams &lt;dan.j.williams@intel.com&gt;
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In preparation for triggering flushes of a DIMM's writes-posted-queue
(WPQ) via the pmem driver move mapping of flush hint addresses to the
region driver.  Since this uses devm_nvdimm_memremap() the flush
addresses will remain mapped while any region to which the dimm belongs
is active.

We need to communicate more information to the nvdimm core to facilitate
this mapping, namely each dimm object now carries an array of flush hint
address resources.

Signed-off-by: Dan Williams &lt;dan.j.williams@intel.com&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>libnvdimm, nfit: remove nfit_spa_map() infrastructure</title>
<updated>2016-07-11T22:09:26+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Dan Williams</name>
<email>dan.j.williams@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2016-06-07T23:38:04+00:00</published>
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Now that all shared mappings are handled by devm_nvdimm_memremap() we no
longer need nfit_spa_map() nor do we need to trigger a callback to the
bus provider at region disable time.

Signed-off-by: Dan Williams &lt;dan.j.williams@intel.com&gt;
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Now that all shared mappings are handled by devm_nvdimm_memremap() we no
longer need nfit_spa_map() nor do we need to trigger a callback to the
bus provider at region disable time.

Signed-off-by: Dan Williams &lt;dan.j.williams@intel.com&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>libnvdimm: introduce devm_nvdimm_memremap(), convert nfit_spa_map() users</title>
<updated>2016-07-08T00:11:09+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Dan Williams</name>
<email>dan.j.williams@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2016-06-07T00:42:38+00:00</published>
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In preparation for generically mapping flush hint addresses for both the
BLK and PMEM use case, provide a generic / reference counted mapping
api.  Given the fact that a dimm may belong to multiple regions (PMEM
and BLK), the flush hint addresses need to be held valid as long as any
region associated with the dimm is active.  This is similar to the
existing BLK-region case where multiple BLK-regions may share an
aperture mapping.  Up-level this shared / reference-counted mapping
capability from the nfit driver to a core nvdimm capability.

This eliminates the need for the nd_blk_region.disable() callback.  Note
that the removal of nfit_spa_map() and related infrastructure is
deferred to a later patch.

Signed-off-by: Dan Williams &lt;dan.j.williams@intel.com&gt;
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In preparation for generically mapping flush hint addresses for both the
BLK and PMEM use case, provide a generic / reference counted mapping
api.  Given the fact that a dimm may belong to multiple regions (PMEM
and BLK), the flush hint addresses need to be held valid as long as any
region associated with the dimm is active.  This is similar to the
existing BLK-region case where multiple BLK-regions may share an
aperture mapping.  Up-level this shared / reference-counted mapping
capability from the nfit driver to a core nvdimm capability.

This eliminates the need for the nd_blk_region.disable() callback.  Note
that the removal of nfit_spa_map() and related infrastructure is
deferred to a later patch.

Signed-off-by: Dan Williams &lt;dan.j.williams@intel.com&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>nfit, libnvdimm: clarify "commands" vs "_DSMs"</title>
<updated>2016-04-28T23:23:16+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Dan Williams</name>
<email>dan.j.williams@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2016-04-28T23:17:07+00:00</published>
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Clarify the distinction between "commands", the ioctls userspace calls
to request the kernel take some action on a given dimm device, and
"_DSMs", the actual function numbers used in the firmware interface to
the DIMM.  _DSMs are ACPI specific whereas commands are Linux kernel
generic.

This is in preparation for breaking the 1:1 implicit relationship
between the kernel ioctl number space and the firmware specific function
numbers.

Cc: Jerry Hoemann &lt;jerry.hoemann@hpe.com&gt;
Cc: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@infradead.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams &lt;dan.j.williams@intel.com&gt;
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Clarify the distinction between "commands", the ioctls userspace calls
to request the kernel take some action on a given dimm device, and
"_DSMs", the actual function numbers used in the firmware interface to
the DIMM.  _DSMs are ACPI specific whereas commands are Linux kernel
generic.

This is in preparation for breaking the 1:1 implicit relationship
between the kernel ioctl number space and the firmware specific function
numbers.

Cc: Jerry Hoemann &lt;jerry.hoemann@hpe.com&gt;
Cc: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@infradead.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams &lt;dan.j.williams@intel.com&gt;
</pre>
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