Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 15 May 2015 08:48:18 -0700 | Subject | Re: [Linux-nvdimm] [PATCH v2 01/20] e820, efi: add ACPI 6.0 persistent memory types | From | Dan Williams <> |
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On Fri, May 15, 2015 at 8:43 AM, Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com> wrote: > Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com> writes: > >> @@ -919,10 +920,31 @@ static inline const char *e820_type_to_string(int e820_type) >> case E820_NVS: return "ACPI Non-volatile Storage"; >> case E820_UNUSABLE: return "Unusable memory"; >> case E820_PRAM: return "Persistent RAM"; >> + case E820_PMEM: return "Persistent I/O Memory"; > > Minor nit, but nobody refers to this stuff as persistent I/O memory. > I've heard it referred to as persistent memory or storage class memory. > In the end, I doubt it matters.
Had we not polluted the waters with E820_PRAM I would have chosen "Persistent Memory", but as we now need to support both I'd assume they need different names.
> Acked-by: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com>
Thanks Jeff.
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