Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH 3/3] x86: add support for the non-standard protected e820 type | From | Ross Zwisler <> | Date | Wed, 25 Mar 2015 14:25:33 -0600 |
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On Wed, 2015-03-25 at 17:04 +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > Various recent bioses support NVDIMMs or ADR using a non-standard > e820 memory type, and Intel supplied reference Linux code using this > type to various vendors. > > Wire this e820 table type up to export platform devices for the pmem > driver so that we can use it in Linux, and also provide a memmap= > argument to manually tag memory as protected, which can be used > if the bios doesn't use the standard nonstandard interface, or > we just want to test the pmem driver with regular memory.
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> @@ -154,6 +166,9 @@ static void __init e820_print_type(u32 type) > case E820_UNUSABLE: > printk(KERN_CONT "unusable"); > break; > + case E820_PROTECTED_KERN: > + printk(KERN_CONT "protected (type %u)\n", type);
I don't think we want a newline in this string.
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