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.
next prev 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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