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| author | Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com> | 2015-05-31 15:02:11 -0400 |
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| committer | Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com> | 2015-06-24 21:24:10 -0400 |
| commit | 3d88002e4a7bd40f355550284c6cd140e6fe29dc (patch) | |
| tree | 5934604ed6e21153ada873c7042c4037ef20ecdc /include/uapi | |
| parent | 1f7df6f88b9245a7f2d0f8ecbc97dc88c8d0d8e1 (diff) | |
| download | linux-3d88002e4a7bd40f355550284c6cd140e6fe29dc.tar.bz2 | |
libnvdimm: support for legacy (non-aliasing) nvdimms
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 <hch@lst.de>
Tested-by: Toshi Kani <toshi.kani@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/uapi')
| -rw-r--r-- | include/uapi/linux/ndctl.h | 10 |
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/uapi/linux/ndctl.h b/include/uapi/linux/ndctl.h index 37640916d146..174b6371dcc1 100644 --- a/include/uapi/linux/ndctl.h +++ b/include/uapi/linux/ndctl.h @@ -177,8 +177,18 @@ static inline const char *nvdimm_cmd_name(unsigned cmd) #define ND_DEVICE_DIMM 1 /* nd_dimm: container for "config data" */ +#define ND_DEVICE_REGION_PMEM 2 /* nd_region: (parent of PMEM namespaces) */ +#define ND_DEVICE_REGION_BLK 3 /* nd_region: (parent of BLK namespaces) */ +#define ND_DEVICE_NAMESPACE_IO 4 /* legacy persistent memory */ +#define ND_DEVICE_NAMESPACE_PMEM 5 /* PMEM namespace (may alias with BLK) */ +#define ND_DEVICE_NAMESPACE_BLK 6 /* BLK namespace (may alias with PMEM) */ enum nd_driver_flags { ND_DRIVER_DIMM = 1 << ND_DEVICE_DIMM, + ND_DRIVER_REGION_PMEM = 1 << ND_DEVICE_REGION_PMEM, + ND_DRIVER_REGION_BLK = 1 << ND_DEVICE_REGION_BLK, + ND_DRIVER_NAMESPACE_IO = 1 << ND_DEVICE_NAMESPACE_IO, + ND_DRIVER_NAMESPACE_PMEM = 1 << ND_DEVICE_NAMESPACE_PMEM, + ND_DRIVER_NAMESPACE_BLK = 1 << ND_DEVICE_NAMESPACE_BLK, }; #endif /* __NDCTL_H__ */ |