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From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
To: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Cc: axboe@fb.com, Boaz Harrosh <boaz@plexistor.com>,
	Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>, Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>,
	"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
	Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>,
	Ross Zwisler <ross.zwisler@linux.intel.com>,
	Matthew Wilcox <willy@linux.intel.com>,
	keith.busch@intel.com,
	"linux-tip-commits@vger.kernel.org" 
	<linux-tip-commits@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [tip:x86/pmem] x86/mm: Add support for the non-standard protected e820 type
Date: Thu, 2 Apr 2015 21:13:52 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150402191352.GA10627@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CALCETrWOg9Z_JOSQ60EQhC9JpHGaVMrCZB4BKavzzOh1aUmWcg@mail.gmail.com>


* Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net> wrote:

> On Thu, Apr 2, 2015 at 5:31 AM, tip-bot for Christoph Hellwig
> <tipbot@zytor.com> wrote:
> > Commit-ID:  ec776ef6bbe1734c29cd6bd05219cd93b2731bd4
> > Gitweb:     http://git.kernel.org/tip/ec776ef6bbe1734c29cd6bd05219cd93b2731bd4
> > Author:     Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
> > AuthorDate: Wed, 1 Apr 2015 09:12:18 +0200
> > Committer:  Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
> > CommitDate: Wed, 1 Apr 2015 17:02:43 +0200
> >
> > x86/mm: Add support for the non-standard protected e820 type
> >
> > 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.
> 
> This scares me a bit.  Do we know that the upcoming ACPI 6.0
> enumeration mechanism *won't* use e820 type 12? [...]

So I know nothing about it, but I'd be surprised if e820 was touched 
at all, as e820 isn't really well suited to enumerate more complex 
resources, and it appears pmem wants to grow into complex directions?

Thanks,

	Ingo

  reply	other threads:[~2015-04-02 19:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 50+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-04-01  7:12 another pmem variant V3 Christoph Hellwig
2015-04-01  7:12 ` [PATCH 1/2] x86: add support for the non-standard protected e820 type Christoph Hellwig
2015-04-01 14:25   ` [PATCH] SQUASHME: Fixes to e820 handling of pmem Boaz Harrosh
2015-04-02  9:30     ` Christoph Hellwig
2015-04-02  9:37       ` Ingo Molnar
2015-04-02  9:40         ` Christoph Hellwig
2015-04-02 11:18         ` Christoph Hellwig
2015-04-02 11:20       ` Boaz Harrosh
2015-04-02 12:31   ` [tip:x86/pmem] x86/mm: Add support for the non-standard protected e820 type tip-bot for Christoph Hellwig
2015-04-02 19:08     ` Andy Lutomirski
2015-04-02 19:13       ` Ingo Molnar [this message]
2015-04-02 19:51         ` Andy Lutomirski
2015-04-16 22:31           ` Andy Lutomirski
2015-04-17  0:55             ` Elliott, Robert (Server Storage)
2015-04-17  0:59               ` Andy Lutomirski
2015-04-02 20:28     ` Yinghai Lu
2015-04-02 20:23   ` [PATCH 1/2] x86: add " Yinghai Lu
2015-04-03 16:14   ` [Linux-nvdimm] " Toshi Kani
2015-04-03 17:12     ` Yinghai Lu
2015-04-03 20:54       ` Toshi Kani
2015-04-04  9:40         ` Ingo Molnar
2015-04-05  7:44           ` Yinghai Lu
2015-04-06  7:27             ` Ingo Molnar
2015-04-06 17:29           ` Toshi Kani
2015-04-06 18:26             ` Yinghai Lu
2015-04-06 18:23               ` Toshi Kani
2015-04-05  9:18       ` Boaz Harrosh
2015-04-05 20:06         ` Yinghai Lu
2015-04-06  7:16           ` Boaz Harrosh
2015-04-06 15:55       ` Christoph Hellwig
2015-04-01  7:12 ` [PATCH 2/2] pmem: add a driver for persistent memory Christoph Hellwig
2015-04-01 15:18   ` Boaz Harrosh
2015-04-02  9:32     ` Christoph Hellwig
2015-04-02 12:31   ` [tip:x86/pmem] drivers/block/pmem: Add " tip-bot for Ross Zwisler
2015-04-02 15:31 ` [PATCH] pmem: Add prints at module load and unload Boaz Harrosh
2015-04-02 15:39   ` [Linux-nvdimm] " Dan Williams
2015-04-02 15:47     ` Boaz Harrosh
2015-04-02 16:01       ` Dan Williams
2015-04-02 16:44         ` Christoph Hellwig
2015-04-05  8:50           ` Boaz Harrosh
2015-04-07 15:19             ` Christoph Hellwig
2015-04-07 15:34               ` Boaz Harrosh
2015-04-07 15:46 ` [PATCH A+B] " Boaz Harrosh
2015-04-07 15:47   ` [PATCH 1A] pmem: Add prints at pmem_probe/remove Boaz Harrosh
2015-04-07 15:47   ` [PATCH 1B] pmem: Add prints at module load and unload Boaz Harrosh
2015-04-13  9:05   ` [PATCH A+B] " Greg KH
2015-04-13 12:05     ` Boaz Harrosh
2015-04-13 12:36       ` Greg KH
2015-04-13 13:20         ` Boaz Harrosh
2015-04-13 13:36           ` Greg KH

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