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author | Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com> | 2020-07-20 15:08:18 -0700 |
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committer | Vishal Verma <vishal.l.verma@intel.com> | 2020-07-28 19:28:32 -0600 |
commit | 48001ea50d17f3eb06a552e9ecf21f7fc01b25da (patch) | |
tree | d62ce17a32b2d86494615af61cdbe90a5df9812d /Documentation/driver-api | |
parent | 5cf81ce1893da01fede18c6749eafd4bc1c5ae9b (diff) | |
download | linux-48001ea50d17f3eb06a552e9ecf21f7fc01b25da.tar.bz2 |
PM, libnvdimm: Add runtime firmware activation support
Abstract platform specific mechanics for nvdimm firmware activation
behind a handful of generic ops. At the bus level ->activate_state()
indicates the unified state (idle, busy, armed) of all DIMMs on the bus,
and ->capability() indicates the system state expectations for activate.
At the DIMM level ->activate_state() indicates the per-DIMM state,
->activate_result() indicates the outcome of the last activation
attempt, and ->arm() attempts to transition the DIMM from 'idle' to
'armed'.
A new hibernate_quiet_exec() facility is added to support firmware
activation in an OS defined system quiesce state. It leverages the fact
that the hibernate-freeze state wants to assert that a memory
hibernation snapshot can be taken. This is in contrast to a platform
firmware defined quiesce state that may forcefully quiet the memory
controller independent of whether an individual device-driver properly
supports hibernate-freeze.
The libnvdimm sysfs interface is extended to support detection of a
firmware activate capability. The mechanism supports enumeration and
triggering of firmware activate, optionally in the
hibernate_quiet_exec() context.
[rafael: hibernate_quiet_exec() proposal]
[vishal: fix up sparse warning, grammar in Documentation/]
Cc: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
Cc: Ira Weiny <ira.weiny@intel.com>
Cc: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Dave Jiang <dave.jiang@intel.com>
Cc: Vishal Verma <vishal.l.verma@intel.com>
Reported-by: kernel test robot <lkp@intel.com>
Co-developed-by: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Vishal Verma <vishal.l.verma@intel.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/driver-api')
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/driver-api/nvdimm/firmware-activate.rst | 86 |
1 files changed, 86 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/driver-api/nvdimm/firmware-activate.rst b/Documentation/driver-api/nvdimm/firmware-activate.rst new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..7ee7decbbdc3 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/driver-api/nvdimm/firmware-activate.rst @@ -0,0 +1,86 @@ +.. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 + +================================== +NVDIMM Runtime Firmware Activation +================================== + +Some persistent memory devices run a firmware locally on the device / +"DIMM" to perform tasks like media management, capacity provisioning, +and health monitoring. The process of updating that firmware typically +involves a reboot because it has implications for in-flight memory +transactions. However, reboots are disruptive and at least the Intel +persistent memory platform implementation, described by the Intel ACPI +DSM specification [1], has added support for activating firmware at +runtime. + +A native sysfs interface is implemented in libnvdimm to allow platform +to advertise and control their local runtime firmware activation +capability. + +The libnvdimm bus object, ndbusX, implements an ndbusX/firmware/activate +attribute that shows the state of the firmware activation as one of 'idle', +'armed', 'overflow', and 'busy'. + +- idle: + No devices are set / armed to activate firmware + +- armed: + At least one device is armed + +- busy: + In the busy state armed devices are in the process of transitioning + back to idle and completing an activation cycle. + +- overflow: + If the platform has a concept of incremental work needed to perform + the activation it could be the case that too many DIMMs are armed for + activation. In that scenario the potential for firmware activation to + timeout is indicated by the 'overflow' state. + +The 'ndbusX/firmware/activate' property can be written with a value of +either 'live', or 'quiesce'. A value of 'quiesce' triggers the kernel to +run firmware activation from within the equivalent of the hibernation +'freeze' state where drivers and applications are notified to stop their +modifications of system memory. A value of 'live' attempts +firmware activation without this hibernation cycle. The +'ndbusX/firmware/activate' property will be elided completely if no +firmware activation capability is detected. + +Another property 'ndbusX/firmware/capability' indicates a value of +'live' or 'quiesce', where 'live' indicates that the firmware +does not require or inflict any quiesce period on the system to update +firmware. A capability value of 'quiesce' indicates that firmware does +expect and injects a quiet period for the memory controller, but 'live' +may still be written to 'ndbusX/firmware/activate' as an override to +assume the risk of racing firmware update with in-flight device and +application activity. The 'ndbusX/firmware/capability' property will be +elided completely if no firmware activation capability is detected. + +The libnvdimm memory-device / DIMM object, nmemX, implements +'nmemX/firmware/activate' and 'nmemX/firmware/result' attributes to +communicate the per-device firmware activation state. Similar to the +'ndbusX/firmware/activate' attribute, the 'nmemX/firmware/activate' +attribute indicates 'idle', 'armed', or 'busy'. The state transitions +from 'armed' to 'idle' when the system is prepared to activate firmware, +firmware staged + state set to armed, and 'ndbusX/firmware/activate' is +triggered. After that activation event the nmemX/firmware/result +attribute reflects the state of the last activation as one of: + +- none: + No runtime activation triggered since the last time the device was reset + +- success: + The last runtime activation completed successfully. + +- fail: + The last runtime activation failed for device-specific reasons. + +- not_staged: + The last runtime activation failed due to a sequencing error of the + firmware image not being staged. + +- need_reset: + Runtime firmware activation failed, but the firmware can still be + activated via the legacy method of power-cycling the system. + +[1]: https://docs.pmem.io/persistent-memory/ |