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<title>linux-toradex.git/tools/testing/nvdimm/Kbuild, branch v4.10</title>
<subtitle>Linux kernel for Apalis and Colibri modules</subtitle>
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<title>tools/testing/nvdimm: unit test acpi_nfit_ctl()</title>
<updated>2016-12-07T01:42:36+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Dan Williams</name>
<email>dan.j.williams@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2016-12-05T21:43:25+00:00</published>
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A recent flurry of bug discoveries in the nfit driver's DSM marshalling
routine has highlighted the fact that we do not have unit test coverage
for this routine. Add a self-test of acpi_nfit_ctl() routine before
probing the "nfit_test.0" device. This mocks stimulus to acpi_nfit_ctl()
and if any of the tests fail "nfit_test.0" will be unavailable causing
the rest of the tests to not run / fail.

This unit test will also be a place to land reproductions of quirky BIOS
behavior discovered in the field and ensure the kernel does not regress
against implementations it has seen in practice.

Signed-off-by: Dan Williams &lt;dan.j.williams@intel.com&gt;
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A recent flurry of bug discoveries in the nfit driver's DSM marshalling
routine has highlighted the fact that we do not have unit test coverage
for this routine. Add a self-test of acpi_nfit_ctl() routine before
probing the "nfit_test.0" device. This mocks stimulus to acpi_nfit_ctl()
and if any of the tests fail "nfit_test.0" will be unavailable causing
the rest of the tests to not run / fail.

This unit test will also be a place to land reproductions of quirky BIOS
behavior discovered in the field and ensure the kernel does not regress
against implementations it has seen in practice.

Signed-off-by: Dan Williams &lt;dan.j.williams@intel.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>tools/testing/nvdimm: unit test for acpi_nfit_notify()</title>
<updated>2016-08-23T14:49:42+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Dan Williams</name>
<email>dan.j.williams@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2016-08-19T05:15:04+00:00</published>
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We have had a couple bugs in this implementation in the past and before
we add another -&gt;notify() implementation for nvdimm devices, lets allow
this routine to be exercised via nfit_test.

Rewrite acpi_nfit_notify() in terms of a generic struct device and
acpi_handle parameter, and then implement a mock acpi_evaluate_object()
that returns a _FIT payload.

Cc: Vishal Verma &lt;vishal.l.verma@intel.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Vishal Verma &lt;vishal.l.verma@intel.com&gt;
Acked-by: Rafael J. Wysocki &lt;rafael@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams &lt;dan.j.williams@intel.com&gt;
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We have had a couple bugs in this implementation in the past and before
we add another -&gt;notify() implementation for nvdimm devices, lets allow
this routine to be exercised via nfit_test.

Rewrite acpi_nfit_notify() in terms of a generic struct device and
acpi_handle parameter, and then implement a mock acpi_evaluate_object()
that returns a _FIT payload.

Cc: Vishal Verma &lt;vishal.l.verma@intel.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Vishal Verma &lt;vishal.l.verma@intel.com&gt;
Acked-by: Rafael J. Wysocki &lt;rafael@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams &lt;dan.j.williams@intel.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>nfit: do an ARS scrub on hitting a latent media error</title>
<updated>2016-07-24T15:04:04+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Vishal Verma</name>
<email>vishal.l.verma@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2016-07-24T04:51:21+00:00</published>
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When a latent (unknown to 'badblocks') error is encountered, it will
trigger a machine check exception. On a system with machine check
recovery, this will only SIGBUS the process(es) which had the bad page
mapped (as opposed to a kernel panic on platforms without machine
check recovery features). In the former case, we want to trigger a full
rescan of that nvdimm bus. This will allow any additional, new errors
to be captured in the block devices' badblocks lists, and offending
operations on them can be trapped early, avoiding machine checks.

This is done by registering a callback function with the
x86_mce_decoder_chain and calling the new ars_rescan functionality with
the address in the mce notificatiion.

Cc: Rafael J. Wysocki &lt;rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Tony Luck &lt;tony.luck@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;</content>
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When a latent (unknown to 'badblocks') error is encountered, it will
trigger a machine check exception. On a system with machine check
recovery, this will only SIGBUS the process(es) which had the bad page
mapped (as opposed to a kernel panic on platforms without machine
check recovery features). In the former case, we want to trigger a full
rescan of that nvdimm bus. This will allow any additional, new errors
to be captured in the block devices' badblocks lists, and offending
operations on them can be trapped early, avoiding machine checks.

This is done by registering a callback function with the
x86_mce_decoder_chain and calling the new ars_rescan functionality with
the address in the mce notificatiion.

Cc: Rafael J. Wysocki &lt;rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Tony Luck &lt;tony.luck@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>
<title>nfit: move to nfit/ sub-directory</title>
<updated>2016-07-24T15:04:04+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Dan Williams</name>
<email>dan.j.williams@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2016-07-24T04:24:19+00:00</published>
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With the arrival of x86-machine-check support the nfit driver will add a
(conditionally-compiled) source file.  Prepare for this by moving all
nfit source to drivers/acpi/nfit/.  This is pure code movement, no
functional changes.

Signed-off-by: Dan Williams &lt;dan.j.williams@intel.com&gt;
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With the arrival of x86-machine-check support the nfit driver will add a
(conditionally-compiled) source file.  Prepare for this by moving all
nfit source to drivers/acpi/nfit/.  This is pure code movement, no
functional changes.

Signed-off-by: Dan Williams &lt;dan.j.williams@intel.com&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>tools/testing/nvdimm: replace CONFIG_DMA_CMA dependency with vmalloc()</title>
<updated>2016-06-27T18:40:46+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Dan Williams</name>
<email>dan.j.williams@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2016-06-16T03:34:17+00:00</published>
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DMA_CMA is incompatible with SWIOTLB used in enterprise distro
configurations.  Switch to vmalloc() allocations for all resources.

Acked-by: Johannes Thumshirn &lt;jthumshirn@suse.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams &lt;dan.j.williams@intel.com&gt;
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DMA_CMA is incompatible with SWIOTLB used in enterprise distro
configurations.  Switch to vmalloc() allocations for all resources.

Acked-by: Johannes Thumshirn &lt;jthumshirn@suse.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams &lt;dan.j.williams@intel.com&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>libnvdimm, pmem: allow nfit_test to override pmem_direct_access()</title>
<updated>2016-06-24T18:39:29+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Dan Williams</name>
<email>dan.j.williams@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2016-06-17T18:08:06+00:00</published>
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Currently phys_to_pfn_t() is an exported symbol to allow nfit_test to
override it and indicate that nfit_test-pmem is not device-mapped.  Now,
we want to enable nfit_test to operate without DMA_CMA and the pmem it
provides will no longer be physically contiguous, i.e. won't be capable
of supporting direct_access requests larger than a page.  Make
pmem_direct_access() a weak symbol so that it can be replaced by the
tools/testing/nvdimm/ version, and move phys_to_pfn_t() to a static
inline now that it no longer needs to be overridden.

Acked-by: Johannes Thumshirn &lt;jthumshirn@suse.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams &lt;dan.j.williams@intel.com&gt;
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Currently phys_to_pfn_t() is an exported symbol to allow nfit_test to
override it and indicate that nfit_test-pmem is not device-mapped.  Now,
we want to enable nfit_test to operate without DMA_CMA and the pmem it
provides will no longer be physically contiguous, i.e. won't be capable
of supporting direct_access requests larger than a page.  Make
pmem_direct_access() a weak symbol so that it can be replaced by the
tools/testing/nvdimm/ version, and move phys_to_pfn_t() to a static
inline now that it no longer needs to be overridden.

Acked-by: Johannes Thumshirn &lt;jthumshirn@suse.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams &lt;dan.j.williams@intel.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>/dev/dax, pmem: direct access to persistent memory</title>
<updated>2016-05-21T05:02:53+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Dan Williams</name>
<email>dan.j.williams@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2016-05-18T16:15:08+00:00</published>
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Device DAX is the device-centric analogue of Filesystem DAX
(CONFIG_FS_DAX).  It allows memory ranges to be allocated and mapped
without need of an intervening file system.  Device DAX is strict,
precise and predictable.  Specifically this interface:

1/ Guarantees fault granularity with respect to a given page size (pte,
pmd, or pud) set at configuration time.

2/ Enforces deterministic behavior by being strict about what fault
scenarios are supported.

For example, by forcing MADV_DONTFORK semantics and omitting MAP_PRIVATE
support device-dax guarantees that a mapping always behaves/performs the
same once established.  It is the "what you see is what you get" access
mechanism to differentiated memory vs filesystem DAX which has
filesystem specific implementation semantics.

Persistent memory is the first target, but the mechanism is also
targeted for exclusive allocations of performance differentiated memory
ranges.

This commit is limited to the base device driver infrastructure to
associate a dax device with pmem range.

Cc: Jeff Moyer &lt;jmoyer@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Cc: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Dave Hansen &lt;dave.hansen@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Ross Zwisler &lt;ross.zwisler@linux.intel.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Johannes Thumshirn &lt;jthumshirn@suse.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams &lt;dan.j.williams@intel.com&gt;
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Device DAX is the device-centric analogue of Filesystem DAX
(CONFIG_FS_DAX).  It allows memory ranges to be allocated and mapped
without need of an intervening file system.  Device DAX is strict,
precise and predictable.  Specifically this interface:

1/ Guarantees fault granularity with respect to a given page size (pte,
pmd, or pud) set at configuration time.

2/ Enforces deterministic behavior by being strict about what fault
scenarios are supported.

For example, by forcing MADV_DONTFORK semantics and omitting MAP_PRIVATE
support device-dax guarantees that a mapping always behaves/performs the
same once established.  It is the "what you see is what you get" access
mechanism to differentiated memory vs filesystem DAX which has
filesystem specific implementation semantics.

Persistent memory is the first target, but the mechanism is also
targeted for exclusive allocations of performance differentiated memory
ranges.

This commit is limited to the base device driver infrastructure to
associate a dax device with pmem range.

Cc: Jeff Moyer &lt;jmoyer@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Cc: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Dave Hansen &lt;dave.hansen@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Ross Zwisler &lt;ross.zwisler@linux.intel.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Johannes Thumshirn &lt;jthumshirn@suse.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams &lt;dan.j.williams@intel.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>libnvdimm, dax: introduce device-dax infrastructure</title>
<updated>2016-05-09T22:35:42+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Dan Williams</name>
<email>dan.j.williams@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2016-03-11T18:15:36+00:00</published>
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Device DAX is the device-centric analogue of Filesystem DAX
(CONFIG_FS_DAX).  It allows persistent memory ranges to be allocated and
mapped without need of an intervening file system.  This initial
infrastructure arranges for a libnvdimm pfn-device to be represented as
a different device-type so that it can be attached to a driver other
than the pmem driver.

Signed-off-by: Dan Williams &lt;dan.j.williams@intel.com&gt;
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Device DAX is the device-centric analogue of Filesystem DAX
(CONFIG_FS_DAX).  It allows persistent memory ranges to be allocated and
mapped without need of an intervening file system.  This initial
infrastructure arranges for a libnvdimm pfn-device to be represented as
a different device-type so that it can be attached to a driver other
than the pmem driver.

Signed-off-by: Dan Williams &lt;dan.j.williams@intel.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>libnvdimm, pmem, pfn: make pmem_rw_bytes generic and refactor pfn setup</title>
<updated>2016-04-22T19:26:23+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Dan Williams</name>
<email>dan.j.williams@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2016-03-22T07:22:16+00:00</published>
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In preparation for providing an alternative (to block device) access
mechanism to persistent memory, convert pmem_rw_bytes() to
nsio_rw_bytes().  This allows -&gt;rw_bytes() functionality without
requiring a 'struct pmem_device' to be instantiated.

In other words, when -&gt;rw_bytes() is in use i/o is driven through
'struct nd_namespace_io', otherwise it is driven through 'struct
pmem_device' and the block layer.  This consolidates the disjoint calls
to devm_exit_badblocks() and devm_memunmap() into a common
devm_nsio_disable() and cleans up the init path to use a unified
pmem_attach_disk() implementation.

Reviewed-by: Johannes Thumshirn &lt;jthumshirn@suse.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams &lt;dan.j.williams@intel.com&gt;
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In preparation for providing an alternative (to block device) access
mechanism to persistent memory, convert pmem_rw_bytes() to
nsio_rw_bytes().  This allows -&gt;rw_bytes() functionality without
requiring a 'struct pmem_device' to be instantiated.

In other words, when -&gt;rw_bytes() is in use i/o is driven through
'struct nd_namespace_io', otherwise it is driven through 'struct
pmem_device' and the block layer.  This consolidates the disjoint calls
to devm_exit_badblocks() and devm_memunmap() into a common
devm_nsio_disable() and cleans up the init path to use a unified
pmem_attach_disk() implementation.

Reviewed-by: Johannes Thumshirn &lt;jthumshirn@suse.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams &lt;dan.j.williams@intel.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>libnvdimm, pfn: enable pfn sysfs interface unit testing</title>
<updated>2015-12-15T08:34:21+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Dan Williams</name>
<email>dan.j.williams@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2015-12-15T08:34:21+00:00</published>
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The unit test infrastructure uses CMA and real memory to emulate nvdimm
resources.  The call to devm_memremap_pages() can simply be mocked in
the same manner as memremap and we mock phys_to_pfn_t() to clear PFN_MAP
since these resources are not registered with in the pgmap_radix.

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The unit test infrastructure uses CMA and real memory to emulate nvdimm
resources.  The call to devm_memremap_pages() can simply be mocked in
the same manner as memremap and we mock phys_to_pfn_t() to clear PFN_MAP
since these resources are not registered with in the pgmap_radix.

Signed-off-by: Dan Williams &lt;dan.j.williams@intel.com&gt;</pre>
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