Merge tag 'libnvdimm-for-5.9' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/nvdimm/nvdimm

Pull libnvdimm updayes from Vishal Verma:
 "You'd normally receive this pull request from Dan Williams, but he's
  busy watching a newborn (Congrats Dan!), so I'm watching libnvdimm
  this cycle.

  This adds a new feature in libnvdimm - 'Runtime Firmware Activation',
  and a few small cleanups and fixes in libnvdimm and DAX. I'd
  originally intended to make separate topic-based pull requests - one
  for libnvdimm, and one for DAX, but some of the DAX material fell out
  since it wasn't quite ready.

  Summary:

   - add 'Runtime Firmware Activation' support for NVDIMMs that
     advertise the relevant capability

   - misc libnvdimm and DAX cleanups"

* tag 'libnvdimm-for-5.9' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/nvdimm/nvdimm:
  libnvdimm/security: ensure sysfs poll thread woke up and fetch updated attr
  libnvdimm/security: the 'security' attr never show 'overwrite' state
  libnvdimm/security: fix a typo
  ACPI: NFIT: Fix ARS zero-sized allocation
  dax: Fix incorrect argument passed to xas_set_err()
  ACPI: NFIT: Add runtime firmware activate support
  PM, libnvdimm: Add runtime firmware activation support
  libnvdimm: Convert to DEVICE_ATTR_ADMIN_RO()
  drivers/dax: Expand lock scope to cover the use of addresses
  fs/dax: Remove unused size parameter
  dax: print error message by pr_info() in __generic_fsdax_supported()
  driver-core: Introduce DEVICE_ATTR_ADMIN_{RO,RW}
  tools/testing/nvdimm: Emulate firmware activation commands
  tools/testing/nvdimm: Prepare nfit_ctl_test() for ND_CMD_CALL emulation
  tools/testing/nvdimm: Add command debug messages
  tools/testing/nvdimm: Cleanup dimm index passing
  ACPI: NFIT: Define runtime firmware activation commands
  ACPI: NFIT: Move bus_dsm_mask out of generic nvdimm_bus_descriptor
  libnvdimm: Validate command family indices

2 files changed, 21 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-bus-nfit b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-bus-nfit
index a1cb44dcb908..e4f76e7eab93 100644
--- a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-bus-nfit
+++ b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-bus-nfit
@@ -202,6 +202,25 @@ Description:
 		functions. See the section named 'NVDIMM Root Device _DSMs' in
 		the ACPI specification.
 
+What:		/sys/bus/nd/devices/ndbusX/nfit/firmware_activate_noidle
+Date:		Apr, 2020
+KernelVersion:	v5.8
+Contact:	linux-nvdimm@lists.01.org
+Description:
+		(RW) The Intel platform implementation of firmware activate
+		support exposes an option let the platform force idle devices in
+		the system over the activation event, or trust that the OS will
+		do it. The safe default is to let the platform force idle
+		devices since the kernel is already in a suspend state, and on
+		the chance that a driver does not properly quiesce bus-mastering
+		after a suspend callback the platform will handle it.  However,
+		the activation might abort if, for example, platform firmware
+		determines that the activation time exceeds the max PCI-E
+		completion timeout. Since the platform does not know whether the
+		OS is running the activation from a suspend context it aborts,
+		but if the system owner trusts driver suspend callback to be
+		sufficient then 'firmware_activation_noidle' can be
+		enabled to bypass the activation abort.
 
 What:		/sys/bus/nd/devices/regionX/nfit/range_index
 Date:		Jun, 2015
diff --git a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-bus-nvdimm b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-bus-nvdimm
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..d64380262be8
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-bus-nvdimm
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+The libnvdimm sub-system implements a common sysfs interface for
+platform nvdimm resources. See Documentation/driver-api/nvdimm/.