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<title>nfit: disable userspace initiated ars during scrub</title>
<updated>2016-03-05T20:24:06+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Dan Williams</name>
<email>dan.j.williams@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2016-02-23T05:50:31+00:00</published>
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While the nfit driver is issuing address range scrub commands and
reaping the results do not permit an ars_start command issued from
userspace.  The scrub thread assumes that all ars completions are for
scrubs initiated by platform firmware at boot, or by the nfit driver.

Signed-off-by: Dan Williams &lt;dan.j.williams@intel.com&gt;
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While the nfit driver is issuing address range scrub commands and
reaping the results do not permit an ars_start command issued from
userspace.  The scrub thread assumes that all ars completions are for
scrubs initiated by platform firmware at boot, or by the nfit driver.

Signed-off-by: Dan Williams &lt;dan.j.williams@intel.com&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>nfit, libnvdimm: async region scrub workqueue</title>
<updated>2016-03-05T20:24:06+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Dan Williams</name>
<email>dan.j.williams@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2016-02-19T20:16:34+00:00</published>
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Introduce a workqueue that will be used to run address range scrub
asynchronously with the rest of nvdimm device probing.

Userspace still wants notification when probing operations complete, so
introduce a new callback to flush this workqueue when userspace is
awaiting probe completion.

Signed-off-by: Dan Williams &lt;dan.j.williams@intel.com&gt;
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Introduce a workqueue that will be used to run address range scrub
asynchronously with the rest of nvdimm device probing.

Userspace still wants notification when probing operations complete, so
introduce a new callback to flush this workqueue when userspace is
awaiting probe completion.

Signed-off-by: Dan Williams &lt;dan.j.williams@intel.com&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>libnvdimm, nfit: centralize command status translation</title>
<updated>2016-03-05T20:24:06+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Dan Williams</name>
<email>dan.j.williams@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2016-02-13T01:01:11+00:00</published>
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The return value from an 'ndctl_fn' reports the command execution
status, i.e. was the command properly formatted and was it successfully
submitted to the bus provider.  The new 'cmd_rc' parameter allows the bus
provider to communicate command specific results, translated into
common error codes.

Convert the ARS commands to this scheme to:

1/ Consolidate status reporting

2/ Prepare for for expanding ars unit test cases

3/ Make the implementation more generic

Cc: 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 return value from an 'ndctl_fn' reports the command execution
status, i.e. was the command properly formatted and was it successfully
submitted to the bus provider.  The new 'cmd_rc' parameter allows the bus
provider to communicate command specific results, translated into
common error codes.

Convert the ARS commands to this scheme to:

1/ Consolidate status reporting

2/ Prepare for for expanding ars unit test cases

3/ Make the implementation more generic

Cc: 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>nfit: update address range scrub commands to the acpi 6.1 format</title>
<updated>2016-02-24T01:17:20+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Dan Williams</name>
<email>dan.j.williams@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2016-02-17T21:08:58+00:00</published>
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The original format of these commands from the "NVDIMM DSM Interface
Example" [1] are superseded by the ACPI 6.1 definition of the "NVDIMM Root
Device _DSMs" [2].

[1]: http://pmem.io/documents/NVDIMM_DSM_Interface_Example.pdf
[2]: http://www.uefi.org/sites/default/files/resources/ACPI_6_1.pdf
     "9.20.7 NVDIMM Root Device _DSMs"

Changes include:
1/ New 'restart' fields in ars_status, unfortunately these are
   implemented in the middle of the existing definition so this change
   is not backwards compatible.  The expectation is that shipping
   platforms will only ever support the ACPI 6.1 definition.

2/ New status values for ars_start ('busy') and ars_status ('overflow').

Cc: Vishal Verma &lt;vishal.l.verma@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Linda Knippers &lt;linda.knippers@hpe.com&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams &lt;dan.j.williams@intel.com&gt;
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The original format of these commands from the "NVDIMM DSM Interface
Example" [1] are superseded by the ACPI 6.1 definition of the "NVDIMM Root
Device _DSMs" [2].

[1]: http://pmem.io/documents/NVDIMM_DSM_Interface_Example.pdf
[2]: http://www.uefi.org/sites/default/files/resources/ACPI_6_1.pdf
     "9.20.7 NVDIMM Root Device _DSMs"

Changes include:
1/ New 'restart' fields in ars_status, unfortunately these are
   implemented in the middle of the existing definition so this change
   is not backwards compatible.  The expectation is that shipping
   platforms will only ever support the ACPI 6.1 definition.

2/ New status values for ars_start ('busy') and ars_status ('overflow').

Cc: Vishal Verma &lt;vishal.l.verma@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Linda Knippers &lt;linda.knippers@hpe.com&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams &lt;dan.j.williams@intel.com&gt;
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>libnvdimm, tools/testing/nvdimm: fix 'ars_status' output buffer sizing</title>
<updated>2016-02-19T23:21:52+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Dan Williams</name>
<email>dan.j.williams@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2016-02-19T23:21:14+00:00</published>
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<content type='text'>
Use the output length specified in the command to size the receive
buffer rather than the arbitrary 4K limit.

This bug was hiding the fact that the ndctl implementation of
ndctl_bus_cmd_new_ars_status() was not specifying an output buffer size.

Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Cc: 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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Use the output length specified in the command to size the receive
buffer rather than the arbitrary 4K limit.

This bug was hiding the fact that the ndctl implementation of
ndctl_bus_cmd_new_ars_status() was not specifying an output buffer size.

Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Cc: 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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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>libnvdimm: Add a poison list and export badblocks</title>
<updated>2016-01-09T16:39:03+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Vishal Verma</name>
<email>vishal.l.verma@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2015-12-25T02:21:43+00:00</published>
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During region creation, perform Address Range Scrubs (ARS) for the SPA
(System Physical Address) ranges to retrieve known poison locations from
firmware. Add a new data structure 'nd_poison' which is used as a list
in nvdimm_bus to store these poison locations.

When creating a pmem namespace, if there is any known poison associated
with its physical address space, convert the poison ranges to bad sectors
that are exposed using the badblocks interface.

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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During region creation, perform Address Range Scrubs (ARS) for the SPA
(System Physical Address) ranges to retrieve known poison locations from
firmware. Add a new data structure 'nd_poison' which is used as a list
in nvdimm_bus to store these poison locations.

When creating a pmem namespace, if there is any known poison associated
with its physical address space, convert the poison ranges to bad sectors
that are exposed using the badblocks interface.

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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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>libnvdimm, pmem: direct map legacy pmem by default</title>
<updated>2015-08-29T03:40:05+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Dan Williams</name>
<email>dan.j.williams@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2015-08-24T23:20:23+00:00</published>
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The expectation is that the legacy / non-standard pmem discovery method
(e820 type-12) will only ever be used to describe small quantities of
persistent memory.  Larger capacities will be described via the ACPI
NFIT.  When "allocate struct page from pmem" support is added this default
policy can be overridden by assigning a legacy pmem namespace to a pfn
device, however this would be only be necessary if a platform used the
legacy mechanism to define a very large range.

Cc: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams &lt;dan.j.williams@intel.com&gt;
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The expectation is that the legacy / non-standard pmem discovery method
(e820 type-12) will only ever be used to describe small quantities of
persistent memory.  Larger capacities will be described via the ACPI
NFIT.  When "allocate struct page from pmem" support is added this default
policy can be overridden by assigning a legacy pmem namespace to a pfn
device, however this would be only be necessary if a platform used the
legacy mechanism to define a very large range.

Cc: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams &lt;dan.j.williams@intel.com&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>libnvdimm: Add sysfs numa_node to NVDIMM devices</title>
<updated>2015-06-26T15:23:38+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Toshi Kani</name>
<email>toshi.kani@hp.com</email>
</author>
<published>2015-06-19T18:18:34+00:00</published>
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Add support of sysfs 'numa_node' to I/O-related NVDIMM devices
under /sys/bus/nd/devices, regionN, namespaceN.0, and bttN.x.

An example of numa_node values on a 2-socket system with a single
NVDIMM range on each socket is shown below.
  /sys/bus/nd/devices
  |-- btt0.0/numa_node:0
  |-- btt1.0/numa_node:1
  |-- btt1.1/numa_node:1
  |-- namespace0.0/numa_node:0
  |-- namespace1.0/numa_node:1
  |-- region0/numa_node:0
  |-- region1/numa_node:1

These numa_node files are then linked under the block class of
their device names.
  /sys/class/block/pmem0/device/numa_node:0
  /sys/class/block/pmem1s/device/numa_node:1

This enables numactl(8) to accept 'block:' and 'file:' paths of
pmem and btt devices as shown in the examples below.
  numactl --preferred block:pmem0 --show
  numactl --preferred file:/dev/pmem1s --show

Signed-off-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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Add support of sysfs 'numa_node' to I/O-related NVDIMM devices
under /sys/bus/nd/devices, regionN, namespaceN.0, and bttN.x.

An example of numa_node values on a 2-socket system with a single
NVDIMM range on each socket is shown below.
  /sys/bus/nd/devices
  |-- btt0.0/numa_node:0
  |-- btt1.0/numa_node:1
  |-- btt1.1/numa_node:1
  |-- namespace0.0/numa_node:0
  |-- namespace1.0/numa_node:1
  |-- region0/numa_node:0
  |-- region1/numa_node:1

These numa_node files are then linked under the block class of
their device names.
  /sys/class/block/pmem0/device/numa_node:0
  /sys/class/block/pmem1s/device/numa_node:1

This enables numactl(8) to accept 'block:' and 'file:' paths of
pmem and btt devices as shown in the examples below.
  numactl --preferred block:pmem0 --show
  numactl --preferred file:/dev/pmem1s --show

Signed-off-by: Toshi Kani &lt;toshi.kani@hp.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams &lt;dan.j.williams@intel.com&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>libnvdimm: Set numa_node to NVDIMM devices</title>
<updated>2015-06-26T15:23:38+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Toshi Kani</name>
<email>toshi.kani@hp.com</email>
</author>
<published>2015-06-19T18:18:33+00:00</published>
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ACPI NFIT table has System Physical Address Range Structure entries that
describe a proximity ID of each range when ACPI_NFIT_PROXIMITY_VALID is
set in the flags.

Change acpi_nfit_register_region() to map a proximity ID to its node ID,
and set it to a new numa_node field of nd_region_desc, which is then
conveyed to the nd_region device.

The device core arranges for btt and namespace devices to inherit their
node from their parent region.

Signed-off-by: Toshi Kani &lt;toshi.kani@hp.com&gt;
[djbw: move set_dev_node() from region.c to bus.c]
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams &lt;dan.j.williams@intel.com&gt;
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ACPI NFIT table has System Physical Address Range Structure entries that
describe a proximity ID of each range when ACPI_NFIT_PROXIMITY_VALID is
set in the flags.

Change acpi_nfit_register_region() to map a proximity ID to its node ID,
and set it to a new numa_node field of nd_region_desc, which is then
conveyed to the nd_region device.

The device core arranges for btt and namespace devices to inherit their
node from their parent region.

Signed-off-by: Toshi Kani &lt;toshi.kani@hp.com&gt;
[djbw: move set_dev_node() from region.c to bus.c]
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams &lt;dan.j.williams@intel.com&gt;
</pre>
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>libnvdimm, nfit: handle unarmed dimms, mark namespaces read-only</title>
<updated>2015-06-26T15:23:38+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Dan Williams</name>
<email>dan.j.williams@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2015-06-24T00:08:34+00:00</published>
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Upon detection of an unarmed dimm in a region, arrange for descendant
BTT, PMEM, or BLK instances to be read-only.  A dimm is primarily marked
"unarmed" via flags passed by platform firmware (NFIT).

The flags in the NFIT memory device sub-structure indicate the state of
the data on the nvdimm relative to its energy source or last "flush to
persistence".  For the most part there is nothing the driver can do but
advertise the state of these flags in sysfs and emit a message if
firmware indicates that the contents of the device may be corrupted.
However, for the case of ACPI_NFIT_MEM_ARMED, the driver can arrange for
the block devices incorporating that nvdimm to be marked read-only.
This is a safe default as the data is still available and new writes are
held off until the administrator either forces read-write mode, or the
energy source becomes armed.

A 'read_only' attribute is added to REGION devices to allow for
overriding the default read-only policy of all descendant block devices.

Signed-off-by: Dan Williams &lt;dan.j.williams@intel.com&gt;
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Upon detection of an unarmed dimm in a region, arrange for descendant
BTT, PMEM, or BLK instances to be read-only.  A dimm is primarily marked
"unarmed" via flags passed by platform firmware (NFIT).

The flags in the NFIT memory device sub-structure indicate the state of
the data on the nvdimm relative to its energy source or last "flush to
persistence".  For the most part there is nothing the driver can do but
advertise the state of these flags in sysfs and emit a message if
firmware indicates that the contents of the device may be corrupted.
However, for the case of ACPI_NFIT_MEM_ARMED, the driver can arrange for
the block devices incorporating that nvdimm to be marked read-only.
This is a safe default as the data is still available and new writes are
held off until the administrator either forces read-write mode, or the
energy source becomes armed.

A 'read_only' attribute is added to REGION devices to allow for
overriding the default read-only policy of all descendant block devices.

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