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<title>linux-toradex.git/include/uapi/linux/ndctl.h, branch v4.3-rc6</title>
<subtitle>Linux kernel for Apalis and Colibri modules</subtitle>
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<title>libnvdimm: Add DSM support for Address Range Scrub commands</title>
<updated>2015-07-28T02:53:19+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Vishal Verma</name>
<email>vishal.l.verma@intel.com</email>
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<published>2015-07-09T19:25:36+00:00</published>
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Add support for the three ARS DSM commands:
- Query ARS Capabilities - Queries the firmware to check if a given
  range supports scrub, and if so, which type (persistent vs. volatile)
- Start ARS - Starts a scrub for a given range/type
- Query ARS Status - Checks status of a previously started scrub, and
  provides the error logs if any.

  The commands are described by the example DSM spec at:
  http://pmem.io/documents/NVDIMM_DSM_Interface_Example.pdf

Also add these commands to the nfit_test test framework, and return
canned data.

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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Add support for the three ARS DSM commands:
- Query ARS Capabilities - Queries the firmware to check if a given
  range supports scrub, and if so, which type (persistent vs. volatile)
- Start ARS - Starts a scrub for a given range/type
- Query ARS Status - Checks status of a previously started scrub, and
  provides the error logs if any.

  The commands are described by the example DSM spec at:
  http://pmem.io/documents/NVDIMM_DSM_Interface_Example.pdf

Also add these commands to the nfit_test test framework, and return
canned data.

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>
<title>libnvdimm: Update name of the ars_status_record mask field</title>
<updated>2015-07-28T02:53:19+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Vishal Verma</name>
<email>vishal.l.verma@intel.com</email>
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<published>2015-07-09T19:25:35+00:00</published>
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The spec suggests that this is a simple 'length' field, not a mask.
Update the name accordingly.

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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The spec suggests that this is a simple 'length' field, not a mask.
Update the name accordingly.

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>
<title>libnvdimm: pmem label sets and namespace instantiation.</title>
<updated>2015-06-25T01:24:10+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Dan Williams</name>
<email>dan.j.williams@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2015-06-17T21:14:46+00:00</published>
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A complete label set is a PMEM-label per-dimm per-interleave-set where
all the UUIDs match and the interleave set cookie matches the hosting
interleave set.

Present sysfs attributes for manipulation of a PMEM-namespace's
'alt_name', 'uuid', and 'size' attributes.  A later patch will make
these settings persistent by writing back the label.

Note that PMEM allocations grow forwards from the start of an interleave
set (lowest dimm-physical-address (DPA)).  BLK-namespaces that alias
with a PMEM interleave set will grow allocations backward from the
highest DPA.

Cc: Greg KH &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
Cc: Neil Brown &lt;neilb@suse.de&gt;
Acked-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
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A complete label set is a PMEM-label per-dimm per-interleave-set where
all the UUIDs match and the interleave set cookie matches the hosting
interleave set.

Present sysfs attributes for manipulation of a PMEM-namespace's
'alt_name', 'uuid', and 'size' attributes.  A later patch will make
these settings persistent by writing back the label.

Note that PMEM allocations grow forwards from the start of an interleave
set (lowest dimm-physical-address (DPA)).  BLK-namespaces that alias
with a PMEM interleave set will grow allocations backward from the
highest DPA.

Cc: Greg KH &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
Cc: Neil Brown &lt;neilb@suse.de&gt;
Acked-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams &lt;dan.j.williams@intel.com&gt;</pre>
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<title>libnvdimm: namespace indices: read and validate</title>
<updated>2015-06-25T01:24:10+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Dan Williams</name>
<email>dan.j.williams@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2015-06-09T20:09:36+00:00</published>
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This on media label format [1] consists of two index blocks followed by
an array of labels.  None of these structures are ever updated in place.
A sequence number tracks the current active index and the next one to
write, while labels are written to free slots.

    +------------+
    |            |
    |  nsindex0  |
    |            |
    +------------+
    |            |
    |  nsindex1  |
    |            |
    +------------+
    |   label0   |
    +------------+
    |   label1   |
    +------------+
    |            |
     ....nslot...
    |            |
    +------------+
    |   labelN   |
    +------------+

After reading valid labels, store the dpa ranges they claim into
per-dimm resource trees.

[1]: http://pmem.io/documents/NVDIMM_Namespace_Spec.pdf

Cc: Neil Brown &lt;neilb@suse.de&gt;
Acked-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams &lt;dan.j.williams@intel.com&gt;
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This on media label format [1] consists of two index blocks followed by
an array of labels.  None of these structures are ever updated in place.
A sequence number tracks the current active index and the next one to
write, while labels are written to free slots.

    +------------+
    |            |
    |  nsindex0  |
    |            |
    +------------+
    |            |
    |  nsindex1  |
    |            |
    +------------+
    |   label0   |
    +------------+
    |   label1   |
    +------------+
    |            |
     ....nslot...
    |            |
    +------------+
    |   labelN   |
    +------------+

After reading valid labels, store the dpa ranges they claim into
per-dimm resource trees.

[1]: http://pmem.io/documents/NVDIMM_Namespace_Spec.pdf

Cc: Neil Brown &lt;neilb@suse.de&gt;
Acked-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams &lt;dan.j.williams@intel.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>libnvdimm: support for legacy (non-aliasing) nvdimms</title>
<updated>2015-06-25T01:24:10+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Dan Williams</name>
<email>dan.j.williams@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2015-05-31T19:02:11+00:00</published>
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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 &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Tested-by: Toshi Kani &lt;toshi.kani@hp.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams &lt;dan.j.williams@intel.com&gt;
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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 &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Tested-by: Toshi Kani &lt;toshi.kani@hp.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams &lt;dan.j.williams@intel.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>libnvdimm, nvdimm: dimm driver and base libnvdimm device-driver infrastructure</title>
<updated>2015-06-25T01:24:10+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Dan Williams</name>
<email>dan.j.williams@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2015-05-31T18:41:48+00:00</published>
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* Implement the device-model infrastructure for loading modules and
  attaching drivers to nvdimm devices.  This is a simple association of a
  nd-device-type number with a driver that has a bitmask of supported
  device types.  To facilitate userspace bind/unbind operations 'modalias'
  and 'devtype', that also appear in the uevent, are added as generic
  sysfs attributes for all nvdimm devices.  The reason for the device-type
  number is to support sub-types within a given parent devtype, be it a
  vendor-specific sub-type or otherwise.

* The first consumer of this infrastructure is the driver
  for dimm devices.  It simply uses control messages to retrieve and
  store the configuration-data image (label set) from each dimm.

Note: nd_device_register() arranges for asynchronous registration of
      nvdimm bus devices by default.

Cc: Greg KH &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
Cc: Neil Brown &lt;neilb@suse.de&gt;
Acked-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Tested-by: Toshi Kani &lt;toshi.kani@hp.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams &lt;dan.j.williams@intel.com&gt;
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* Implement the device-model infrastructure for loading modules and
  attaching drivers to nvdimm devices.  This is a simple association of a
  nd-device-type number with a driver that has a bitmask of supported
  device types.  To facilitate userspace bind/unbind operations 'modalias'
  and 'devtype', that also appear in the uevent, are added as generic
  sysfs attributes for all nvdimm devices.  The reason for the device-type
  number is to support sub-types within a given parent devtype, be it a
  vendor-specific sub-type or otherwise.

* The first consumer of this infrastructure is the driver
  for dimm devices.  It simply uses control messages to retrieve and
  store the configuration-data image (label set) from each dimm.

Note: nd_device_register() arranges for asynchronous registration of
      nvdimm bus devices by default.

Cc: Greg KH &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
Cc: Neil Brown &lt;neilb@suse.de&gt;
Acked-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Tested-by: Toshi Kani &lt;toshi.kani@hp.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams &lt;dan.j.williams@intel.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>libnvdimm: control (ioctl) messages for nvdimm_bus and nvdimm devices</title>
<updated>2015-06-25T01:24:10+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Dan Williams</name>
<email>dan.j.williams@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2015-06-08T18:27:06+00:00</published>
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Most discovery/configuration of the nvdimm-subsystem is done via sysfs
attributes.  However, some nvdimm_bus instances, particularly the
ACPI.NFIT bus, define a small set of messages that can be passed to the
platform.  For convenience we derive the initial libnvdimm-ioctl command
formats directly from the NFIT DSM Interface Example formats.

    ND_CMD_SMART: media health and diagnostics
    ND_CMD_GET_CONFIG_SIZE: size of the label space
    ND_CMD_GET_CONFIG_DATA: read label space
    ND_CMD_SET_CONFIG_DATA: write label space
    ND_CMD_VENDOR: vendor-specific command passthrough
    ND_CMD_ARS_CAP: report address-range-scrubbing capabilities
    ND_CMD_ARS_START: initiate scrubbing
    ND_CMD_ARS_STATUS: report on scrubbing state
    ND_CMD_SMART_THRESHOLD: configure alarm thresholds for smart events

If a platform later defines different commands than this set it is
straightforward to extend support to those formats.

Most of the commands target a specific dimm.  However, the
address-range-scrubbing commands target the bus.  The 'commands'
attribute in sysfs of an nvdimm_bus, or nvdimm, enumerate the supported
commands for that object.

Cc: &lt;linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Robert Moore &lt;robert.moore@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Rafael J. Wysocki &lt;rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com&gt;
Reported-by: Nicholas Moulin &lt;nicholas.w.moulin@linux.intel.com&gt;
Acked-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams &lt;dan.j.williams@intel.com&gt;
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Most discovery/configuration of the nvdimm-subsystem is done via sysfs
attributes.  However, some nvdimm_bus instances, particularly the
ACPI.NFIT bus, define a small set of messages that can be passed to the
platform.  For convenience we derive the initial libnvdimm-ioctl command
formats directly from the NFIT DSM Interface Example formats.

    ND_CMD_SMART: media health and diagnostics
    ND_CMD_GET_CONFIG_SIZE: size of the label space
    ND_CMD_GET_CONFIG_DATA: read label space
    ND_CMD_SET_CONFIG_DATA: write label space
    ND_CMD_VENDOR: vendor-specific command passthrough
    ND_CMD_ARS_CAP: report address-range-scrubbing capabilities
    ND_CMD_ARS_START: initiate scrubbing
    ND_CMD_ARS_STATUS: report on scrubbing state
    ND_CMD_SMART_THRESHOLD: configure alarm thresholds for smart events

If a platform later defines different commands than this set it is
straightforward to extend support to those formats.

Most of the commands target a specific dimm.  However, the
address-range-scrubbing commands target the bus.  The 'commands'
attribute in sysfs of an nvdimm_bus, or nvdimm, enumerate the supported
commands for that object.

Cc: &lt;linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Robert Moore &lt;robert.moore@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Rafael J. Wysocki &lt;rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com&gt;
Reported-by: Nicholas Moulin &lt;nicholas.w.moulin@linux.intel.com&gt;
Acked-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams &lt;dan.j.williams@intel.com&gt;
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