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menuconfig 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))
nd_btt: atomic sector updates BTT stands for Block Translation Table, and is a way to provide power fail sector atomicity semantics for block devices that have the ability to perform byte granularity IO. It relies on the capability of libnvdimm namespace devices to do byte aligned IO. The BTT works as a stacked blocked device, and reserves a chunk of space from the backing device for its accounting metadata. It is a bio-based driver because all IO is done synchronously, and there is no queuing or asynchronous completions at either the device or the driver level. The BTT uses 'lanes' to index into various 'on-disk' data structures, and lanes also act as a synchronization mechanism in case there are more CPUs than available lanes. We did a comparison between two lane lock strategies - first where we kept an atomic counter around that tracked which was the last lane that was used, and 'our' lane was determined by atomically incrementing that. That way, for the nr_cpus > nr_lanes case, theoretically, no CPU would be blocked waiting for a lane. The other strategy was to use the cpu number we're scheduled on to and hash it to a lane number. Theoretically, this could block an IO that could've otherwise run using a different, free lane. But some fio workloads showed that the direct cpu -> lane hash performed faster than tracking 'last lane' - my reasoning is the cache thrash caused by moving the atomic variable made that approach slower than simply waiting out the in-progress IO. This supports the conclusion that the driver can be a very simple bio-based one that does synchronous IOs instead of queuing. Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net> Cc: Boaz Harrosh <boaz@plexistor.com> Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Cc: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de> Cc: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com> Cc: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com> Cc: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> [jmoyer: fix nmi watchdog timeout in btt_map_init] [jmoyer: move btt initialization to module load path] [jmoyer: fix memory leak in the btt initialization path] [jmoyer: Don't overwrite corrupted arenas] Signed-off-by: Vishal Verma <vishal.l.verma@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
2015-06-25 16:20:32 +08:00
namespaces (/dev/ndblkX.Y). 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.
if LIBNVDIMM
config BLK_DEV_PMEM
tristate "PMEM: Persistent memory block device support"
default LIBNVDIMM
depends on HAS_IOMEM
nd_btt: atomic sector updates BTT stands for Block Translation Table, and is a way to provide power fail sector atomicity semantics for block devices that have the ability to perform byte granularity IO. It relies on the capability of libnvdimm namespace devices to do byte aligned IO. The BTT works as a stacked blocked device, and reserves a chunk of space from the backing device for its accounting metadata. It is a bio-based driver because all IO is done synchronously, and there is no queuing or asynchronous completions at either the device or the driver level. The BTT uses 'lanes' to index into various 'on-disk' data structures, and lanes also act as a synchronization mechanism in case there are more CPUs than available lanes. We did a comparison between two lane lock strategies - first where we kept an atomic counter around that tracked which was the last lane that was used, and 'our' lane was determined by atomically incrementing that. That way, for the nr_cpus > nr_lanes case, theoretically, no CPU would be blocked waiting for a lane. The other strategy was to use the cpu number we're scheduled on to and hash it to a lane number. Theoretically, this could block an IO that could've otherwise run using a different, free lane. But some fio workloads showed that the direct cpu -> lane hash performed faster than tracking 'last lane' - my reasoning is the cache thrash caused by moving the atomic variable made that approach slower than simply waiting out the in-progress IO. This supports the conclusion that the driver can be a very simple bio-based one that does synchronous IOs instead of queuing. Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net> Cc: Boaz Harrosh <boaz@plexistor.com> Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Cc: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de> Cc: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com> Cc: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com> Cc: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> [jmoyer: fix nmi watchdog timeout in btt_map_init] [jmoyer: move btt initialization to module load path] [jmoyer: fix memory leak in the btt initialization path] [jmoyer: Don't overwrite corrupted arenas] Signed-off-by: Vishal Verma <vishal.l.verma@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
2015-06-25 16:20:32 +08:00
select ND_BTT if BTT
help
Memory ranges for PMEM are described by either an NFIT
(NVDIMM Firmware Interface Table, see CONFIG_NFIT_ACPI), a
non-standard OEM-specific E820 memory type (type-12, see
CONFIG_X86_PMEM_LEGACY), or it is manually specified by the
'memmap=nn[KMG]!ss[KMG]' kernel command line (see
Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt). This driver converts
these persistent memory ranges into block devices that are
capable of DAX (direct-access) file system mappings. See
Documentation/nvdimm/nvdimm.txt for more details.
Say Y if you want to use an NVDIMM
config ND_BLK
tristate "BLK: Block data window (aperture) device support"
default LIBNVDIMM
select ND_BTT if BTT
help
Support NVDIMMs, or other devices, that implement a BLK-mode
access capability. BLK-mode access uses memory-mapped-i/o
apertures to access persistent media.
Say Y if your platform firmware emits an ACPI.NFIT table
(CONFIG_ACPI_NFIT), or otherwise exposes BLK-mode
capabilities.
nd_btt: atomic sector updates BTT stands for Block Translation Table, and is a way to provide power fail sector atomicity semantics for block devices that have the ability to perform byte granularity IO. It relies on the capability of libnvdimm namespace devices to do byte aligned IO. The BTT works as a stacked blocked device, and reserves a chunk of space from the backing device for its accounting metadata. It is a bio-based driver because all IO is done synchronously, and there is no queuing or asynchronous completions at either the device or the driver level. The BTT uses 'lanes' to index into various 'on-disk' data structures, and lanes also act as a synchronization mechanism in case there are more CPUs than available lanes. We did a comparison between two lane lock strategies - first where we kept an atomic counter around that tracked which was the last lane that was used, and 'our' lane was determined by atomically incrementing that. That way, for the nr_cpus > nr_lanes case, theoretically, no CPU would be blocked waiting for a lane. The other strategy was to use the cpu number we're scheduled on to and hash it to a lane number. Theoretically, this could block an IO that could've otherwise run using a different, free lane. But some fio workloads showed that the direct cpu -> lane hash performed faster than tracking 'last lane' - my reasoning is the cache thrash caused by moving the atomic variable made that approach slower than simply waiting out the in-progress IO. This supports the conclusion that the driver can be a very simple bio-based one that does synchronous IOs instead of queuing. Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net> Cc: Boaz Harrosh <boaz@plexistor.com> Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Cc: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de> Cc: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com> Cc: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com> Cc: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> [jmoyer: fix nmi watchdog timeout in btt_map_init] [jmoyer: move btt initialization to module load path] [jmoyer: fix memory leak in the btt initialization path] [jmoyer: Don't overwrite corrupted arenas] Signed-off-by: Vishal Verma <vishal.l.verma@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
2015-06-25 16:20:32 +08:00
config ND_BTT
tristate
config BTT
nd_btt: atomic sector updates BTT stands for Block Translation Table, and is a way to provide power fail sector atomicity semantics for block devices that have the ability to perform byte granularity IO. It relies on the capability of libnvdimm namespace devices to do byte aligned IO. The BTT works as a stacked blocked device, and reserves a chunk of space from the backing device for its accounting metadata. It is a bio-based driver because all IO is done synchronously, and there is no queuing or asynchronous completions at either the device or the driver level. The BTT uses 'lanes' to index into various 'on-disk' data structures, and lanes also act as a synchronization mechanism in case there are more CPUs than available lanes. We did a comparison between two lane lock strategies - first where we kept an atomic counter around that tracked which was the last lane that was used, and 'our' lane was determined by atomically incrementing that. That way, for the nr_cpus > nr_lanes case, theoretically, no CPU would be blocked waiting for a lane. The other strategy was to use the cpu number we're scheduled on to and hash it to a lane number. Theoretically, this could block an IO that could've otherwise run using a different, free lane. But some fio workloads showed that the direct cpu -> lane hash performed faster than tracking 'last lane' - my reasoning is the cache thrash caused by moving the atomic variable made that approach slower than simply waiting out the in-progress IO. This supports the conclusion that the driver can be a very simple bio-based one that does synchronous IOs instead of queuing. Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net> Cc: Boaz Harrosh <boaz@plexistor.com> Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Cc: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de> Cc: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com> Cc: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com> Cc: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> [jmoyer: fix nmi watchdog timeout in btt_map_init] [jmoyer: move btt initialization to module load path] [jmoyer: fix memory leak in the btt initialization path] [jmoyer: Don't overwrite corrupted arenas] Signed-off-by: Vishal Verma <vishal.l.verma@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
2015-06-25 16:20:32 +08:00
bool "BTT: Block Translation Table (atomic sector updates)"
default y if LIBNVDIMM
help
The Block Translation Table (BTT) provides atomic sector
update semantics for persistent memory devices, so that
applications that rely on sector writes not being torn (a
guarantee that typical disks provide) can continue to do so.
The BTT manifests itself as an alternate personality for an
NVDIMM namespace, i.e. a namespace can be in raw mode (pmemX,
ndblkX.Y, etc...), or 'sectored' mode, (pmemXs, ndblkX.Ys,
etc...).
Select Y if unsure
endif