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authorChristoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>2015-04-01 09:12:18 +0200
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>2015-04-01 17:02:43 +0200
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tree4505347045c199c3d8923e224ecbed1ffafe1949 /Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
parente42391cd048809d903291d07f86ed3934ce138e9 (diff)
x86/mm: 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 earlier work from: Dave Jiang <dave.jiang@intel.com> Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com> Includes fixes for NUMA regions from Boaz Harrosh. Tested-by: Ross Zwisler <ross.zwisler@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Acked-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net> Cc: Boaz Harrosh <boaz@plexistor.com> Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com> Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk> Cc: Keith Busch <keith.busch@intel.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@linux.intel.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: linux-nvdimm@ml01.01.org Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1427872339-6688-2-git-send-email-hch@lst.de [ Minor cleanups. ] Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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@@ -1965,6 +1965,12 @@ bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes can also be entirely omitted.
or
memmap=0x10000$0x18690000
+ memmap=nn[KMG]!ss[KMG]
+ [KNL,X86] Mark specific memory as protected.
+ Region of memory to be used, from ss to ss+nn.
+ The memory region may be marked as e820 type 12 (0xc)
+ and is NVDIMM or ADR memory.
+
memory_corruption_check=0/1 [X86]
Some BIOSes seem to corrupt the first 64k of
memory when doing things like suspend/resume.