linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/8] pmem: Initial version of persistent memory driver

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Date:	Thu, 5 Mar 2015 15:03:10 -0800
From:	Andy Lutomirski <luto@...capital.net>
To:	Boaz Harrosh <boaz@...xistor.com>
Cc:	Matthew Wilcox <willy@...ux.intel.com>,
	Ross Zwisler <ross.zwisler@...ux.intel.com>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>, X86 ML <x86@...nel.org>,
	Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@...el.com>,
	"Roger C. Pao" <rcpao.enmotus@...il.com>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
	linux-nvdimm <linux-nvdimm@...ts.01.org>,
	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>,
	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/8] pmem: Initial version of persistent memory driver

On Mar 5, 2015 3:55 AM, "Boaz Harrosh" <boaz@...xistor.com> wrote:
>
> From: Ross Zwisler <ross.zwisler@...ux.intel.com>
>
> PMEM is a new driver That supports any physical contiguous iomem range
> as a single block device. The driver has support for as many as needed
> iomem ranges each as its own device.
>
> The driver is not only good for NvDIMMs, It is good for any flat memory
> mapped device. We've used it with NvDIMMs, Kernel reserved DRAM
> (memmap= on command line), PCIE Battery backed memory cards, VM shared
> memory, and so on.
>
> The API to pmem module a single string parameter named "map"
> of the form:
>                  map=mapS[,mapS...]
>
>                  where mapS=nn[KMG]$ss[KMG],
>                  or    mapS=nn[KMG]@ss[KMG],
>
>                  nn=size, ss=offset
>
> Just like the Kernel command line map && memmap parameters,
> so anything you did at grub just copy/paste to here.
>
> The "@" form is exactly the same as the "$" form only that
> at bash prompt we need to escape the "$" with \$ so also
> support the '@' char for convenience.
>
> For each specified mapS there will be a device created.

[...]

> +       pmem->virt_addr = ioremap_cache(pmem->phys_addr, pmem->size);

I think it would be nice to have control over the caching mode.
Depending on the application, WT or UC could make more sense.

--Andy
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