Re: [Linux-nvdimm] [PATCH v2 01/20] e820, efi: add ACPI 6.0 persistent memory types

[Dan Williams]

On Fri, May 15, 2015 at 8:43 AM, Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@xxxxxxxxx> 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@xxxxxxxxxx>

Thanks Jeff.
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