linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 00/21] ND: NFIT-Defined / NVDIMM Subsystem

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Date:	Sat, 18 Apr 2015 12:29:33 -0700
From:	Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@...el.com>
To:	"linux-nvdimm@...ts.01.org" <linux-nvdimm@...ts.01.org>
Cc:	Boaz Harrosh <boaz@...xistor.com>,
	Vishal Verma <vishal.l.verma@...ux.intel.com>,
	Neil Brown <neilb@...e.de>,
	Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
	"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael.j.wysocki@...el.com>,
	Dave Chinner <david@...morbit.com>,
	Robert Moore <robert.moore@...el.com>,
	Andy Lutomirski <luto@...capital.net>,
	Jens Axboe <axboe@...com>, linux-acpi@...r.kernel.org,
	Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@...hat.com>,
	Nicholas Moulin <nicholas.w.moulin@...ux.intel.com>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>,
	Ross Zwisler <ross.zwisler@...ux.intel.com>,
	Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/21] ND: NFIT-Defined / NVDIMM Subsystem

On Fri, Apr 17, 2015 at 6:35 PM, Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@...el.com> wrote:
> Since 2010 Intel has included non-volatile memory support on a few
> storage-focused platforms with a feature named ADR (Asynchronous DRAM
> Refresh).  These platforms were mostly targeted at custom applications
> and never enjoyed standard discovery mechanisms for platform firmware
> to advertise non-volatile memory capabilities.  This now changes with
> the publication of version 6 of the ACPI specification [1] and its
> inclusion of a new table for describing platform memory capabilities.
> The NVDIMM Firmware Interface Table (NFIT), along with new EFI and E820
> memory types, enumerates persistent memory ranges, memory-mapped-I/O
> apertures, physical memory devices (DIMMs), and their associated
> properties.
>
> The ND-subsystem wraps a Linux device driver model around the objects
> and address boundaries defined in the specification and introduces 3 new
> drivers.
>
>   nd_pmem: NFIT enabled version of the existing 'pmem' driver [2]
>   nd_blk: mmio aperture method for accessing persistent storage
>   nd_btt: give persistent memory disk semantics (atomic sector update)
>
> See the documentation in patch2 for more details, and there is
> supplemental documentation on pmem.io [4].  Please review, and
> patches welcome...
>
> For kicking the tires, this release is accompanied by a userspace
> management library 'ndctl' that includes unit tests (make check) for all
> of the kernel ABIs.  The nfit_test.ko module can be used to explore a
> sample NFIT topology.
>
> [1]: http://www.uefi.org/sites/default/files/resources/ACPI_6.0.pdf
> [2]: https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip.git/log/?h=x86/pmem
> [3]: https://github.com/pmem/ndctl
> [4]: http://pmem.io/documents/

nd.git and ndctl.git trees are now up to date.  I'll aim to keep
nd.git non-rebasing, but what eventually goes upstream is likely to be
a re-flowed patch set.  ndctl.git won't rebase.

nd.git: git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/djbw/nvdimm.git nd
ndctl.git: https://github.com/pmem/ndctl.git
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