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authorDan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>2020-07-20 15:08:18 -0700
committerVishal Verma <vishal.l.verma@intel.com>2020-07-28 19:28:32 -0600
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treed62ce17a32b2d86494615af61cdbe90a5df9812d /Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-bus-nvdimm
parent5cf81ce1893da01fede18c6749eafd4bc1c5ae9b (diff)
PM, libnvdimm: Add runtime firmware activation support
Abstract platform specific mechanics for nvdimm firmware activation behind a handful of generic ops. At the bus level ->activate_state() indicates the unified state (idle, busy, armed) of all DIMMs on the bus, and ->capability() indicates the system state expectations for activate. At the DIMM level ->activate_state() indicates the per-DIMM state, ->activate_result() indicates the outcome of the last activation attempt, and ->arm() attempts to transition the DIMM from 'idle' to 'armed'. A new hibernate_quiet_exec() facility is added to support firmware activation in an OS defined system quiesce state. It leverages the fact that the hibernate-freeze state wants to assert that a memory hibernation snapshot can be taken. This is in contrast to a platform firmware defined quiesce state that may forcefully quiet the memory controller independent of whether an individual device-driver properly supports hibernate-freeze. The libnvdimm sysfs interface is extended to support detection of a firmware activate capability. The mechanism supports enumeration and triggering of firmware activate, optionally in the hibernate_quiet_exec() context. [rafael: hibernate_quiet_exec() proposal] [vishal: fix up sparse warning, grammar in Documentation/] Cc: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz> Cc: Ira Weiny <ira.weiny@intel.com> Cc: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com> Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Cc: Dave Jiang <dave.jiang@intel.com> Cc: Vishal Verma <vishal.l.verma@intel.com> Reported-by: kernel test robot <lkp@intel.com> Co-developed-by: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com> Signed-off-by: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Vishal Verma <vishal.l.verma@intel.com>
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+The libnvdimm sub-system implements a common sysfs interface for
+platform nvdimm resources. See Documentation/driver-api/nvdimm/.