[PATCH v4 0/2] powerpc/papr_scm: add support for reporting NVDIMM 'life_used_percentage' metric

Vaibhav Jain
2020-07-31T06:42:19Z

Changes since v3[1]:

* Fixed a rebase issue pointed out by Aneesh in first patch in the series.

[1] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-nvdimm/20200730121303.134230-1-vaibhav@linux.ibm.com
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This small patchset implements kernel side support for reporting
'life_used_percentage' metric in NDCTL with dimm health output for
papr-scm NVDIMMs. With corresponding NDCTL side changes output for
should be like:

$ sudo ndctl list -DH
[
{
"dev":"nmem0",
"health":{
"health_state":"ok",
"life_used_percentage":0,
"shutdown_state":"clean"
}
}
]

PHYP supports H_SCM_PERFORMANCE_STATS hcall through which an LPAR can
fetch various performance stats including 'fuel_gauge' percentage for
an NVDIMM. 'fuel_gauge' metric indicates the usable life remaining of
an NVDIMM expressed as percentage and 'life_used_percentage' can be
calculated as 'life_used_percentage = 100 - fuel_gauge'.

Structure of the patchset
=========================
First patch implements necessary scaffolding needed to issue the
H_SCM_PERFORMANCE_STATS hcall and fetch performance stats
catalogue. The patch also implements support for 'perf_stats' sysfs
attribute to report the full catalogue of supported performance stats
by PHYP.

Second and final patch implements support for sending this value to
libndctl by extending the PAPR_PDSM_HEALTH pdsm payload to add a new
field named 'dimm_fuel_gauge' to it.

Vaibhav Jain (2):
powerpc/papr_scm: Fetch nvdimm performance stats from PHYP
powerpc/papr_scm: Add support for fetching nvdimm 'fuel-gauge' metric

Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-bus-papr-pmem | 27 +++
arch/powerpc/include/uapi/asm/papr_pdsm.h | 9 +
arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/papr_scm.c | 199 ++++++++++++++++++
3 files changed, 235 insertions(+)