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authorDan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>2015-05-19 22:54:31 -0400
committerDan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>2015-06-24 21:24:10 -0400
commitb94d5230d06eb930be82e67fb1a9a58271e78297 (patch)
tree62ed0e06a81e434dbcbb50a36002bad4eb00b1a1 /drivers/nvdimm/Kconfig
parentad5fb870c486d932a1749d7853dd70f436a7e03f (diff)
libnvdimm, nfit: initial libnvdimm infrastructure and NFIT support
A struct nvdimm_bus is the anchor device for registering nvdimm resources and interfaces, for example, a character control device, nvdimm devices, and I/O region devices. The ACPI NFIT (NVDIMM Firmware Interface Table) is one possible platform description for such non-volatile memory resources in a system. The nfit.ko driver attaches to the "ACPI0012" device that indicates the presence of the NFIT and parses the table to register a struct nvdimm_bus instance. Cc: <linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org> Cc: Lv Zheng <lv.zheng@intel.com> Cc: Robert Moore <robert.moore@intel.com> Cc: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com> Acked-by: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com> Acked-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Acked-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com> Tested-by: Toshi Kani <toshi.kani@hp.com> Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
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+config LIBNVDIMM
+ tristate "NVDIMM (Non-Volatile Memory Device) Support"
+ depends on PHYS_ADDR_T_64BIT
+ depends on BLK_DEV
+ help
+ Generic support for non-volatile memory devices including
+ ACPI-6-NFIT defined resources. On platforms that define an
+ NFIT, or otherwise can discover NVDIMM resources, a libnvdimm
+ bus is registered to advertise PMEM (persistent memory)
+ namespaces (/dev/pmemX) and BLK (sliding mmio window(s))
+ namespaces (/dev/ndX). A PMEM namespace refers to a memory
+ resource that may span multiple DIMMs and support DAX (see
+ CONFIG_DAX). A BLK namespace refers to an NVDIMM control
+ region which exposes an mmio register set for windowed
+ access mode to non-volatile memory.