Changes since v11 [1]: * Minor update to 'papr_pdsm.h' fixing a misleading comment about 'possible' padding being added by GCC which doesn't apply in case structs are marked as __packed. * Fix the order of initialization of 'struct nd_papr_pdsm_health' in papr_pdsm_health(). * Added acks from Ira for various patches.
[1] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-nvdimm/20200607131339.476036-1-vaib...@linux.ibm.com --- The PAPR standard[2][4] provides mechanisms to query the health and performance stats of an NVDIMM via various hcalls as described in Ref[3]. Until now these stats were never available nor exposed to the user-space tools like 'ndctl'. This is partly due to PAPR platform not having support for ACPI and NFIT. Hence 'ndctl' is unable to query and report the dimm health status and a user had no way to determine the current health status of a NDVIMM. To overcome this limitation, this patch-set updates papr_scm kernel module to query and fetch NVDIMM health stats using hcalls described in Ref[3]. This health and performance stats are then exposed to userspace via sysfs and PAPR-NVDIMM-Specific-Methods(PDSM) issued by libndctl. These changes coupled with proposed ndtcl changes located at Ref[5] should provide a way for the user to retrieve NVDIMM health status using ndtcl. Below is a sample output using proposed kernel + ndctl for PAPR NVDIMM in a emulation environment: # ndctl list -DH [ { "dev":"nmem0", "health":{ "health_state":"fatal", "shutdown_state":"dirty" } } ] Dimm health report output on a pseries guest lpar with vPMEM or HMS based NVDIMMs that are in perfectly healthy conditions: # ndctl list -d nmem0 -H [ { "dev":"nmem0", "health":{ "health_state":"ok", "shutdown_state":"clean" } } ] PAPR NVDIMM-Specific-Methods(PDSM) ================================== PDSM requests are issued by vendor specific code in libndctl to execute certain operations or fetch information from NVDIMMS. PDSMs requests can be sent to papr_scm module via libndctl(userspace) and libnvdimm (kernel) using the ND_CMD_CALL ioctl command which can be handled in the dimm control function papr_scm_ndctl(). Current patchset proposes a single PDSM to retrieve NVDIMM health, defined in the newly introduced uapi header named 'papr_pdsm.h'. Support for more PDSMs will be added in future. Structure of the patch-set ========================== The patch-set starts with a doc patch documenting details of hcall H_SCM_HEALTH. Second patch exports kernel symbol seq_buf_printf() thats used in subsequent patches to generate sysfs attribute content. Third patch implements support for fetching NVDIMM health information from PHYP and partially exposing it to user-space via a NVDIMM sysfs flag. Fourth patch updates papr_scm_ndctl() to handle a possible error case and also improve debug logging. Fifth patch deals with implementing support for servicing PDSM commands in papr_scm module. Finally the last patch implements support for servicing PDSM 'PAPR_PDSM_HEALTH' that returns the NVDIMM health information to libndctl. References: [2] "Power Architecture Platform Reference" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power_Architecture_Platform_Reference [3] commit 58b278f568f0 ("powerpc: Provide initial documentation for PAPR hcalls") [4] "Linux on Power Architecture Platform Reference" https://members.openpowerfoundation.org/document/dl/469 [5] https://github.com/vaibhav92/ndctl/tree/papr_scm_health_v12 --- Vaibhav Jain (6): powerpc: Document details on H_SCM_HEALTH hcall seq_buf: Export seq_buf_printf powerpc/papr_scm: Fetch nvdimm health information from PHYP powerpc/papr_scm: Improve error logging and handling papr_scm_ndctl() ndctl/papr_scm,uapi: Add support for PAPR nvdimm specific methods powerpc/papr_scm: Implement support for PAPR_PDSM_HEALTH Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-bus-papr-pmem | 27 ++ Documentation/powerpc/papr_hcalls.rst | 46 ++- arch/powerpc/include/uapi/asm/papr_pdsm.h | 125 ++++++ arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/papr_scm.c | 373 +++++++++++++++++- include/uapi/linux/ndctl.h | 1 + lib/seq_buf.c | 1 + 6 files changed, 562 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-) create mode 100644 Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-bus-papr-pmem create mode 100644 arch/powerpc/include/uapi/asm/papr_pdsm.h -- 2.26.2