Re: [PATCH 3/3] ACPI: Change NFIT driver to set PMEM type to iomem entry

From: Dan Williams
Date: Fri Feb 12 2016 - 14:41:14 EST


On Tue, Feb 2, 2016 at 10:55 AM, Toshi Kani <toshi.kani@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> Change acpi_nfit_register_region() to call iomem_set_desc() with
> IORES_DESC_PERSISTENT_MEMORY for NFIT_SPA_PM ranges found in ACPI
> NFIT table.
>
> When FW sets E820_PMEM in e820 and EFI_PERSISTENT_MEMORY in EFI,
> this code simply sets PMEM type again to "Persistent Memory" entries
> in the iomem table. When FW sets reserved type for persistent
> memory ranges, it sets PMEM type to "reserved" entries covering
> PMEM ranges.
>
> This allows the EINJ driver, which calls region_intersects() with
> IORES_DESC_PERSISTENT_MEMORY to check persistent memory ranges,
> to work continuously even if FW sets reserved type to persistent
> memory in e820 and EFI.
>
> Signed-off-by: Toshi Kani <toshi.kani@xxxxxxx>
> Cc: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@xxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@xxxxxxx>
> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> drivers/acpi/nfit.c | 6 ++++++
> 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/acpi/nfit.c b/drivers/acpi/nfit.c
> index ad6d8c6..add04f0 100644
> --- a/drivers/acpi/nfit.c
> +++ b/drivers/acpi/nfit.c
> @@ -1781,6 +1781,12 @@ static int acpi_nfit_register_region(struct acpi_nfit_desc *acpi_desc,
>
> nvdimm_bus = acpi_desc->nvdimm_bus;
> if (nfit_spa_type(spa) == NFIT_SPA_PM) {
> + rc = iomem_set_desc(spa->address, spa->length,
> + IORES_DESC_PERSISTENT_MEMORY);
> + if (rc)
> + dev_dbg(acpi_desc->dev,
> + "error setting iomem desc: %d\n", rc);
> +

Hmm, if we set the type on driver load, should we clear the type on
driver unload?

Actually it might be more straightforward to specify a type at
request_region() time. That way it gets released at release_region().
We're already setting a resource name at request_region time, adding a
type annotation at the time seems appropriate.