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authorDan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>2015-06-23 20:08:34 -0400
committerDan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>2015-06-26 11:23:38 -0400
commit581388209405902b56d055f644b4dd124a206112 (patch)
tree2160b6616cf072396067ca654cd5231e139fc304 /tools
parent0f51c4fa7f60838a87cd45e8ba144dddcd4c066c (diff)
downloadlinux-581388209405902b56d055f644b4dd124a206112.tar.bz2
libnvdimm, nfit: handle unarmed dimms, mark namespaces read-only
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 <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'tools')
-rw-r--r--tools/testing/nvdimm/test/nfit.c3
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/tools/testing/nvdimm/test/nfit.c b/tools/testing/nvdimm/test/nfit.c
index 7a4a5a5edbe4..4b69b8368de0 100644
--- a/tools/testing/nvdimm/test/nfit.c
+++ b/tools/testing/nvdimm/test/nfit.c
@@ -874,6 +874,9 @@ static void nfit_test1_setup(struct nfit_test *t)
memdev->address = 0;
memdev->interleave_index = 0;
memdev->interleave_ways = 1;
+ memdev->flags = ACPI_NFIT_MEM_SAVE_FAILED | ACPI_NFIT_MEM_RESTORE_FAILED
+ | ACPI_NFIT_MEM_FLUSH_FAILED | ACPI_NFIT_MEM_HEALTH_OBSERVED
+ | ACPI_NFIT_MEM_ARMED;
offset += sizeof(*memdev);
/* dcr-descriptor0 */