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From: Ross Zwisler <ross.zwisler@linux.intel.com>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: linux-nvdimm@ml01.01.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, x86@kernel.org, boaz@plexistor.com,
	axboe@kernel.dk
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] x86: add support for the non-standard protected e820 type
Date: Wed, 25 Mar 2015 14:25:33 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1427315133.14654.3.camel@theros.lm.intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1427299449-26722-4-git-send-email-hch@lst.de>

On Wed, 2015-03-25 at 17:04 +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> Various recent bioses support NVDIMMs or ADR using a non-standard
> e820 memory type, and Intel supplied reference Linux code using this
> type to various vendors.
> 
> Wire this e820 table type up to export platform devices for the pmem
> driver so that we can use it in Linux, and also provide a memmap=
> argument to manually tag memory as protected, which can be used
> if the bios doesn't use the standard nonstandard interface, or
> we just want to test the pmem driver with regular memory.

<snip>

> @@ -154,6 +166,9 @@ static void __init e820_print_type(u32 type)
>  	case E820_UNUSABLE:
>  		printk(KERN_CONT "unusable");
>  		break;
> +	case E820_PROTECTED_KERN:
> +		printk(KERN_CONT "protected (type %u)\n", type);

I don't think we want a newline in this string.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2015-03-25 20:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 34+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-03-25 16:04 another pmem variant Christoph Hellwig
2015-03-25 16:04 ` [PATCH 1/3] pmem: Initial version of persistent memory driver Christoph Hellwig
2015-03-25 20:19   ` Paul Bolle
2015-03-25 20:26     ` Ross Zwisler
2015-03-26  8:04       ` Christoph Hellwig
2015-03-25 20:21   ` Ross Zwisler
2015-03-26  8:06     ` Christoph Hellwig
2015-05-04 16:43       ` Ross Zwisler
2015-05-07  7:26         ` Christoph Hellwig
2015-05-07  8:35           ` Boaz Harrosh
2015-03-25 16:04 ` [PATCH 2/3] x86: add a is_e820_ram() helper Christoph Hellwig
2015-03-26  2:15   ` [Linux-nvdimm] " Dan Williams
2015-03-26  8:01     ` Christoph Hellwig
2015-03-26 13:57       ` Dan Williams
2015-03-26 14:32         ` Christoph Hellwig
2015-03-25 16:04 ` [PATCH 3/3] x86: add support for the non-standard protected e820 type Christoph Hellwig
2015-03-25 19:47   ` Elliott, Robert (Server Storage)
2015-03-26  8:02     ` Christoph Hellwig
2015-03-25 20:23   ` Ross Zwisler
2015-03-25 20:29     ` [Linux-nvdimm] " Dan Williams
2015-03-25 20:25   ` Ross Zwisler [this message]
2015-03-26  8:03     ` Christoph Hellwig
2015-03-25 20:35   ` [Linux-nvdimm] " Dan Williams
2015-03-25 16:33 ` [Linux-nvdimm] another pmem variant Dan Williams
2015-03-25 16:44   ` Christoph Hellwig
2015-03-25 17:00     ` Dan Williams
2015-03-25 17:04       ` Christoph Hellwig
2015-03-25 17:18         ` Dan Williams
2015-04-13  9:01       ` Greg KH
2015-04-13 16:02         ` Dan Williams
2015-03-25 18:09 ` Brooks, Adam J
2015-03-25 18:46   ` Christoph Hellwig
2015-03-25 21:02 ` Ross Zwisler
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2015-03-26  8:32 another pmem variant V2 Christoph Hellwig
2015-03-26  8:32 ` [PATCH 3/3] x86: add support for the non-standard protected e820 type Christoph Hellwig

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