Re: [Linux-nvdimm] [PATCH 1/2] x86: add support for the non-standard protected e820 type

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. Based on arlier work from Dave Jiang <dave.jiang(a)intel.com&gt; and Dan Williams <dan.j.williams(a)intel.com&gt;.

@@ -748,7 +758,7 @@ u64 __init early_reserve_e820(u64 size, u64 align) /* * Find the highest page frame number we have available */ -static unsigned long __init e820_end_pfn(unsigned long limit_pfn, unsigned type) +static unsigned long __init e820_end_pfn(unsigned long limit_pfn) { int i; unsigned long last_pfn = 0; @@ -759,7 +769,11 @@ static unsigned long __init e820_end_pfn(unsigned long limit_pfn, unsigned type) unsigned long start_pfn; unsigned long end_pfn; - if (ei->type != type) + /* + * Persistent memory is accounted as ram for purposes of + * establishing max_pfn and mem_map. + */ + if (ei->type != E820_RAM && ei->type != E820_PRAM) continue; start_pfn = ei->addr >> PAGE_SHIFT; @@ -784,12 +798,12 @@ static unsigned long __init e820_end_pfn(unsigned long limit_pfn, unsigned type) } unsigned long __init e820_end_of_ram_pfn(void) { - return e820_end_pfn(MAX_ARCH_PFN, E820_RAM); + return e820_end_pfn(MAX_ARCH_PFN); } unsigned long __init e820_end_of_low_ram_pfn(void) { - return e820_end_pfn(1UL<<(32 - PAGE_SHIFT), E820_RAM); + return e820_end_pfn(1UL<<(32 - PAGE_SHIFT)); }