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authorMark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>2021-05-18 17:24:52 +0100
committerMark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>2021-05-18 17:24:52 +0100
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Merge tag 'v5.13-rc2' into spi-5.13
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@@ -40,7 +40,7 @@ and any in-arguments for the hcall are provided in registers *r4-r12*. If values
have to be passed through a memory buffer, the data stored in that buffer should be
in Big-endian byte order.
-Once control is returns back to the guest after hypervisor has serviced the
+Once control returns back to the guest after hypervisor has serviced the
'HVCS' instruction the return value of the hcall is available in *r3* and any
out values are returned in registers *r4-r12*. Again like in case of in-arguments,
any out values stored in a memory buffer will be in Big-endian byte order.
@@ -147,7 +147,7 @@ corresponding opcode values please look into the arch specific header [4]_:
| Out: *numBytesRead*
| Return Value: *H_Success, H_Parameter, H_P2, H_P3, H_Hardware*
-Given a DRC Index of an NVDIMM, read N-bytes from the the metadata area
+Given a DRC Index of an NVDIMM, read N-bytes from the metadata area
associated with it, at a specified offset and copy it to provided buffer.
The metadata area stores configuration information such as label information,
bad-blocks etc. The metadata area is located out-of-band of NVDIMM storage
@@ -275,6 +275,20 @@ Health Bitmap Flags:
Given a DRC Index collect the performance statistics for NVDIMM and copy them
to the resultBuffer.
+**H_SCM_FLUSH**
+
+| Input: *drcIndex, continue-token*
+| Out: *continue-token*
+| Return Value: *H_SUCCESS, H_Parameter, H_P2, H_BUSY*
+
+Given a DRC Index Flush the data to backend NVDIMM device.
+
+The hcall returns H_BUSY when the flush takes longer time and the hcall needs
+to be issued multiple times in order to be completely serviced. The
+*continue-token* from the output to be passed in the argument list of
+subsequent hcalls to the hypervisor until the hcall is completely serviced
+at which point H_SUCCESS or other error is returned by the hypervisor.
+
References
==========
.. [1] "Power Architecture Platform Reference"