Re: [PATCH 3/3] x86: add support for the non-standard protected e820 type

From: Ross Zwisler
Date: Wed Mar 25 2015 - 16:25:39 EST


On Wed, 2015-03-25 at 17:04 +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> 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, and also provide a memmap=
> argument to manually tag memory as protected, which can be used
> if the bios doesn't use the standard nonstandard interface, or
> we just want to test the pmem driver with regular memory.

<snip>

> @@ -154,6 +166,9 @@ static void __init e820_print_type(u32 type)
> case E820_UNUSABLE:
> printk(KERN_CONT "unusable");
> break;
> + case E820_PROTECTED_KERN:
> + printk(KERN_CONT "protected (type %u)\n", type);

I don't think we want a newline in this string.


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