On Thursday, June 11, 2015 04:11:09 PM Dan Williams wrote:
> On platforms that have firmware support for reading/writing per-dimm
> label space, a portion of the dimm may be accessible via an interleave
> set PMEM mapping in addition to the dimm's BLK (block-data-window
> aperture(s)) interface.  A label, stored in a "configuration data
> region" on the dimm, disambiguates which dimm addresses are accessed
> through which exclusive interface.
> 
> Add infrastructure that allows the kernel to block modifications to a
> label in the set while any member dimm is active.  Note that this is
> meant only for enforcing "no modifications of active labels" via the
> coarse ioctl command.  Adding/deleting namespaces from an active
> interleave set is always possible via sysfs.
> 
> Another aspect of tracking interleave sets is tracking their integrity
> when DIMMs in a set are physically re-ordered.  For this purpose we
> generate an "interleave-set cookie" that can be recorded in a label and
> validated against the current configuration.  It is the bus provider
> implementation's responsibility to calculate the interleave set cookie
> and attach it to a given region.
> 
> Cc: Neil Brown <[email protected]>
> Cc: <[email protected]>
> Cc: Greg KH <[email protected]>
> Cc: Robert Moore <[email protected]>
> Cc: Rafael J. Wysocki <[email protected]>
> Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <[email protected]>

For the ACPI part:

Acked-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <[email protected]>

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