Re: [PATCH V3 01/20] nvdimm/label: Introduce NDD_REGION_LABELING flag to set region label

From: Neeraj Kumar

Date: Mon Sep 22 2025 - 11:53:04 EST


On 19/09/25 04:10PM, Dave Jiang wrote:


On 9/17/25 6:40 AM, Neeraj Kumar wrote:
Prior to LSA 2.1 version, LSA contain only namespace labels. LSA 2.1
introduced in CXL 2.0 Spec, which contain region label along with
namespace label.

NDD_LABELING flag is used for namespace. Introduced NDD_REGION_LABELING
flag for region label. Based on these flags nvdimm driver performs
operation on namespace label or region label.

NDD_REGION_LABELING will be utilized by cxl driver to enable LSA 2.1
region label support

Accordingly updated label index version

Signed-off-by: Neeraj Kumar <s.neeraj@xxxxxxxxxxx>

With the change noted below,
Reviewed-by: Dave Jiang <dave.jiang@xxxxxxxxx>



<Snip>
/*
* EACCES failures reading the namespace label-area-properties
diff --git a/drivers/nvdimm/dimm_devs.c b/drivers/nvdimm/dimm_devs.c
index 21498d461fde..918c3db93195 100644
--- a/drivers/nvdimm/dimm_devs.c
+++ b/drivers/nvdimm/dimm_devs.c
@@ -18,6 +18,13 @@

static DEFINE_IDA(dimm_ida);

+bool nvdimm_check_region_label_format(struct device *dev)

Should be called nvdimm_region_label_supported() since a bool return is expected instead of resolving the checking in the function.

DJ

Thanks Jonathan and Dave for RB tag. Sure, I will rename it accordingly


Regards,
Neeraj