The arbitrary 4MB minimum namespace size turns out to be too large for
some environments. Quoting Cheng-mean Liu:
In the case of emulated NVDIMM devices in the VM environment, there
are scenarios that NVDIMM device with much smaller sizes are
desired, for example, we might use a single enumerated NVDIMM DAX
device for representing each container layer, which in some cases
could be just a few KBs size.
PAGE_SIZE is the minimum where we can still support DAX of at least
a single page.
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
Reported-by: Cheng-mean Liu <soccerl@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
The kernel's ND_IOCTL_SMART_THRESHOLD command is based on a payload
definition that has become broken / out-of-sync with recent versions of
the NVDIMM_FAMILY_INTEL definition. Deprecate the use of the
ND_IOCTL_SMART_THRESHOLD command in favor of the ND_CMD_CALL approach
taken by NVDIMM_FAMILY_{HPE,MSFT}, where we can manage the per-vendor
variance in userspace.
In a couple years, when the new scheme is widely deployed in userspace
packages, the ND_IOCTL_SMART_THRESHOLD support can be removed. For now
we prevent new binaries from compiling against the kernel header
definitions, but kernel still compatible with old binaries. The
libndctl.h [1] header is now the authoritative interface definition for
NVDIMM SMART.
[1]: https://github.com/pmem/ndctl
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Remove the command payloads that do not have an associated libnvdimm
ioctl. I.e. remove the payloads that would only ever be carried in the
ND_CMD_CALL envelope. This prevents userspace from growing unnecessary
dependencies on this kernel header when userspace already has everything
it needs to craft and send these commands.
Cc: Jerry Hoemann <jerry.hoemann@hpe.com>
Reported-by: Yasunori Goto <y-goto@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
ACPI 6.2 defines in section 9.20.7.2 that the OSPM may call a Start
ARS with Flags Bit [1] set upon receiving the 0x81 notification.
Upon receiving the notification, the OSPM may decide to issue
a Start ARS with Flags Bit [1] set to prepare for the retrieval
of existing records and issue the Query ARS Status function to
retrieve the records.
Add support to call a Start ARS from acpi_nfit_uc_error_notify()
with ND_ARS_RETURN_PREV_DATA set when HW_ERROR_SCRUB_ON is not set.
Link: http://www.uefi.org/sites/default/files/resources/ACPI_6_2.pdf
Signed-off-by: Toshi Kani <toshi.kani@hpe.com>
Cc: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Cc: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@rjwysocki.net>
Cc: Vishal Verma <vishal.l.verma@intel.com>
Cc: Linda Knippers <linda.knippers@hpe.com>
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
ACPI 6.2 added new NVDIMM root DSM functions. Define their
data structures.
Signed-off-by: Jerry Hoemann <jerry.hoemann@hpe.com>
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Set ND_CMD_CALL in the cmd_mask to enable calling root
functions via the pass thru mechanism.
Signed-off-by: Jerry Hoemann <jerry.hoemann@hpe.com>
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Per the latest version of the "NVDIMM DSM Interface Example" [1], the
label data retrieval routine can report a "locked" status. In this case
all regions associated with that DIMM are disabled until the label area
is unlocked. Provide generic libnvdimm enabling for NVDIMMs with label
data area locking capabilities.
[1]: http://pmem.io/documents/
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
"NVDIMM DSM Interface Example" v1.2 made an incompatible change to the
layout of function1 "SMART and Health Info". While the kernel does not
directly consume this payload, it does define it in ndctl.h that
userpace utilities consume.
Reported-by: Brian Boylston <brian.boylston@hpe.com>
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Add the Microsoft _DSM command set to the white list of NVDIMM command
sets.
This command set is documented at:
https://msdn.microsoft.com/library/windows/hardware/mt604741
Cc: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
[pavel: fix up braces]
Signed-off-by: Stuart Hayes <stuart.w.hayes@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Device DAX is the device-centric analogue of Filesystem DAX
(CONFIG_FS_DAX). It allows persistent memory ranges to be allocated and
mapped without need of an intervening file system. This initial
infrastructure arranges for a libnvdimm pfn-device to be represented as
a different device-type so that it can be attached to a driver other
than the pmem driver.
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
There are currently 4 known similar but incompatible definitions of the
command sets that can be sent to an NVDIMM through ACPI. It is also
clear that future platform generations (ACPI or not) will continue to
revise and extend the DIMM command set as new devices and use cases
arrive.
It is obviously untenable to continue to proliferate divergence
of these command definitions, and to that end a standardization process
has begun to provide for a unified specification. However, that leaves a
problem about what to do with this first generation where vendors are
already shipping divergence.
The Linux kernel can support these initial diverged platforms without
giving platform-firmware free reign to continue to diverge and compound
kernel maintenance overhead. The kernel implementation can encourage
standardization in two ways:
1/ Require that any function code that userspace wants to send be
explicitly white-listed in the implementation. For ACPI this means
function codes marked as supported by acpi_check_dsm() may
only be invoked if they appear in the white-list. A function must be
publicly documented before it is added to the white-list.
2/ The above restrictions can be trivially bypassed by using the
"vendor-specific" payload command. However, since vendor-specific
commands are by definition not publicly documented and have the
potential to corrupt the kernel's view of the dimm state, we provide a
toggle to disable vendor-specific operations. Enabling undefined
behavior is a policy decision that can be made by the platform owner
and encourages firmware implementations to choose public over
private command implementations.
Based on an initial patch from Jerry Hoemann
Cc: Jerry Hoemann <jerry.hoemann@hpe.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Provide simulated SMART data to enable the ndctl implementation of SMART
data retrieval and parsing.
The payload is defined here, "Section 4.1 SMART and Health Info
(Function Index 1)":
http://pmem.io/documents/NVDIMM_DSM_Interface_Example.pdf
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Add the boiler-plate for a 'clear error' command based on section
9.20.7.6 "Function Index 4 - Clear Uncorrectable Error" from the ACPI
6.1 specification, and add a reference implementation in nfit_test.
Reviewed-by: Vishal Verma <vishal.l.verma@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
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 <vishal.l.verma@intel.com>
Cc: Linda Knippers <linda.knippers@hpe.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Add support for the three ARS DSM commands:
- Query ARS Capabilities - Queries the firmware to check if a given
range supports scrub, and if so, which type (persistent vs. volatile)
- Start ARS - Starts a scrub for a given range/type
- Query ARS Status - Checks status of a previously started scrub, and
provides the error logs if any.
The commands are described by the example DSM spec at:
http://pmem.io/documents/NVDIMM_DSM_Interface_Example.pdf
Also add these commands to the nfit_test test framework, and return
canned data.
Signed-off-by: Vishal Verma <vishal.l.verma@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
The spec suggests that this is a simple 'length' field, not a mask.
Update the name accordingly.
Signed-off-by: Vishal Verma <vishal.l.verma@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
A complete label set is a PMEM-label per-dimm per-interleave-set where
all the UUIDs match and the interleave set cookie matches the hosting
interleave set.
Present sysfs attributes for manipulation of a PMEM-namespace's
'alt_name', 'uuid', and 'size' attributes. A later patch will make
these settings persistent by writing back the label.
Note that PMEM allocations grow forwards from the start of an interleave
set (lowest dimm-physical-address (DPA)). BLK-namespaces that alias
with a PMEM interleave set will grow allocations backward from the
highest DPA.
Cc: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Acked-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
This on media label format [1] consists of two index blocks followed by
an array of labels. None of these structures are ever updated in place.
A sequence number tracks the current active index and the next one to
write, while labels are written to free slots.
+------------+
| |
| nsindex0 |
| |
+------------+
| |
| nsindex1 |
| |
+------------+
| label0 |
+------------+
| label1 |
+------------+
| |
....nslot...
| |
+------------+
| labelN |
+------------+
After reading valid labels, store the dpa ranges they claim into
per-dimm resource trees.
[1]: http://pmem.io/documents/NVDIMM_Namespace_Spec.pdf
Cc: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Acked-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
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>
* Implement the device-model infrastructure for loading modules and
attaching drivers to nvdimm devices. This is a simple association of a
nd-device-type number with a driver that has a bitmask of supported
device types. To facilitate userspace bind/unbind operations 'modalias'
and 'devtype', that also appear in the uevent, are added as generic
sysfs attributes for all nvdimm devices. The reason for the device-type
number is to support sub-types within a given parent devtype, be it a
vendor-specific sub-type or otherwise.
* The first consumer of this infrastructure is the driver
for dimm devices. It simply uses control messages to retrieve and
store the configuration-data image (label set) from each dimm.
Note: nd_device_register() arranges for asynchronous registration of
nvdimm bus devices by default.
Cc: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
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>
Most discovery/configuration of the nvdimm-subsystem is done via sysfs
attributes. However, some nvdimm_bus instances, particularly the
ACPI.NFIT bus, define a small set of messages that can be passed to the
platform. For convenience we derive the initial libnvdimm-ioctl command
formats directly from the NFIT DSM Interface Example formats.
ND_CMD_SMART: media health and diagnostics
ND_CMD_GET_CONFIG_SIZE: size of the label space
ND_CMD_GET_CONFIG_DATA: read label space
ND_CMD_SET_CONFIG_DATA: write label space
ND_CMD_VENDOR: vendor-specific command passthrough
ND_CMD_ARS_CAP: report address-range-scrubbing capabilities
ND_CMD_ARS_START: initiate scrubbing
ND_CMD_ARS_STATUS: report on scrubbing state
ND_CMD_SMART_THRESHOLD: configure alarm thresholds for smart events
If a platform later defines different commands than this set it is
straightforward to extend support to those formats.
Most of the commands target a specific dimm. However, the
address-range-scrubbing commands target the bus. The 'commands'
attribute in sysfs of an nvdimm_bus, or nvdimm, enumerate the supported
commands for that object.
Cc: <linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: Robert Moore <robert.moore@intel.com>
Cc: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
Reported-by: Nicholas Moulin <nicholas.w.moulin@linux.intel.com>
Acked-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
