ACPI 6.0 formalizes e820-type-7 and efi-type-14 as persistent memory.
Mark it "reserved" and allow it to be claimed by a persistent memory
device driver.
This definition is in addition to the Linux kernel's existing type-12
definition that was recently added in support of shipping platforms with
NVDIMM support that predate ACPI 6.0 (which now classifies type-12 as
OEM reserved).
Note, /proc/iomem can be consulted for differentiating legacy
"Persistent Memory (legacy)" E820_PRAM vs standard "Persistent Memory"
E820_PMEM.
Cc: Boaz Harrosh <boaz@plexistor.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Acked-by: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Reviewed-by: Ross Zwisler <ross.zwisler@linux.intel.com>
Acked-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Tested-by: Toshi Kani <toshi.kani@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
A comment introduced by this old commit:
028b785888 ("x86 boot: extend some internal memory map arrays to handle larger EFI input")
had to do with some nested preprocessor directives. The
directives were split into separate files by this commit:
af170c5061 ("UAPI: (Scripted) Disintegrate arch/x86/include/asm")
The comment explaining their interaction was retained and is now
present in arch/x86/include/uapi/asm/e820.h. This comment is no
longer correct, so delete it.
Signed-off-by: Ross Zwisler <ross.zwisler@linux.intel.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1400521824-21040-1-git-send-email-ross.zwisler@linux.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
