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From: "Verma, Vishal L" <vishal.l.verma@intel.com>
To: "Williams, Dan J" <dan.j.williams@intel.com>,
	"linux-nvdimm@lists.01.org" <linux-nvdimm@lists.01.org>
Subject: Re: [ndctl PATCH 1/3] ndctl: Introduce dirty-dimm command
Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2018 19:15:48 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1537298146.5995.239.camel@intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <153724975617.55312.7253687867673718680.stgit@dwillia2-desk3.amr.corp.intel.com>


On Mon, 2018-09-17 at 22:49 -0700, Dan Williams wrote:
> Some DIMMs provide a facility to track dirty-shutdown events. The
> counter only rolls forward after the OS sets a latch. This allows the
> agent tracking dirty shutdowns to ignore events that occur while the
> capacity has not been written. For these DIMMs dirty-dimm will trigger
> the counter to roll to the next state. The shutdown state can be
> retrieved with 'ndctl list -DH'
> 
> Cc: Keith Busch <keith.busch@intel.com>
> Cc: Vishal Verma <vishal.l.verma@intel.com>
> Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
> ---
>  Documentation/ndctl/Makefile.am          |    1 +
>  Documentation/ndctl/ndctl-dirty-dimm.txt |   29 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  builtin.h                                |    1 +
>  ndctl/dimm.c                             |   28 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  ndctl/ndctl.c                            |    1 +
>  5 files changed, 60 insertions(+)
>  create mode 100644 Documentation/ndctl/ndctl-dirty-dimm.txt

The series generally looks good to me, just a couple comments below:

> 
> diff --git a/ndctl/dimm.c b/ndctl/dimm.c
> index a4203f354000..595e4e4096a5 100644
> --- a/ndctl/dimm.c
> +++ b/ndctl/dimm.c
> @@ -61,6 +61,19 @@ static int action_zero(struct ndctl_dimm *dimm, struct action_context *actx)
>  	return ndctl_dimm_zero_labels(dimm);
>  }
>  
> +static int action_dirty(struct ndctl_dimm *dimm, struct action_context *actx)
> +{
> +	struct ndctl_cmd *cmd;
> +
> +	cmd = ndctl_dimm_cmd_new_ack_shutdown_count(dimm);
> +	if (!cmd)
> +		return -EOPNOTSUPP;
> +	ndctl_cmd_submit(cmd);

Shouldn't we report any errors here?

> +	ndctl_cmd_unref(cmd);
> +
> +        return 0;

	^ stray whitespace?

> +}
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Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-09-18  5:49 [ndctl PATCH 0/3] ndctl: Remove udev rule for latch and dirty-shutdown-count Dan Williams
2018-09-18  5:49 ` [ndctl PATCH 1/3] ndctl: Introduce dirty-dimm command Dan Williams
2018-09-18 19:15   ` Verma, Vishal L [this message]
2018-09-18 19:49     ` Dan Williams
2018-09-18  5:49 ` [ndctl PATCH 2/3] ndctl: Revert "ndctl, intel: Fallback to smart cached shutdown_count" Dan Williams
2018-09-18  5:49 ` [ndctl PATCH 3/3] ndctl: Revert "ndctl: Create ndctl udev rules for dirty shutdown" Dan Williams

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