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authorDan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>2015-11-30 09:10:33 -0800
committerDan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>2015-11-30 09:10:33 -0800
commitbc0d0d093b379b0b379c429e3348498287c8a9ca (patch)
tree0e20a4644c52a6ec25d8509af033f6155475eec9 /arch/x86/kernel/pmem.c
parent31ade3b83e1821da5fbb2f11b5b3d4ab2ec39db8 (diff)
libnvdimm, e820: skip module loading when no type-12
If there are no persistent memory ranges present then don't bother creating the platform device. Otherwise, it loads the full libnvdimm sub-system only to discover no resources present. Reported-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net> Acked-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net> Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/x86/kernel/pmem.c')
-rw-r--r--arch/x86/kernel/pmem.c12
1 files changed, 12 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/pmem.c b/arch/x86/kernel/pmem.c
index 4f00b63d7ff3..14415aff1813 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/pmem.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/pmem.c
@@ -4,10 +4,22 @@
*/
#include <linux/platform_device.h>
#include <linux/module.h>
+#include <linux/ioport.h>
+
+static int found(u64 start, u64 end, void *data)
+{
+ return 1;
+}
static __init int register_e820_pmem(void)
{
+ char *pmem = "Persistent Memory (legacy)";
struct platform_device *pdev;
+ int rc;
+
+ rc = walk_iomem_res(pmem, IORESOURCE_MEM, 0, -1, NULL, found);
+ if (rc <= 0)
+ return 0;
/*
* See drivers/nvdimm/e820.c for the implementation, this is