new file mode 100644
@@ -0,0 +1,17 @@
+What: /sys/bus/nd/devices/regionX/nfit/ecc_unit_size
+Date: Aug, 2017
+KernelVersion: v4.14 (Removed v4.18)
+Contact: linux-nvdimm@lists.01.org
+Description:
+ (RO) Size of a write request to a DIMM that will not incur a
+ read-modify-write cycle at the memory controller.
+
+ When the nfit driver initializes it runs an ARS (Address Range
+ Scrub) operation across every pmem range. Part of that process
+ involves determining the ARS capabilities of a given address
+ range. One of the capabilities that is reported is the 'Clear
+ Uncorrectable Error Range Length Unit Size' (see: ACPI 6.2
+ section 9.20.7.4 Function Index 1 - Query ARS Capabilities).
+ This property indicates the boundary at which the NVDIMM may
+ need to perform read-modify-write cycles to maintain ECC (Error
+ Correcting Code) blocks.
@@ -212,22 +212,3 @@ Description:
range. Used by NVDIMM Region Mapping Structure to uniquely refer
to this structure. Value of 0 is reserved and not used as an
index.
-
-
-What: /sys/bus/nd/devices/regionX/nfit/ecc_unit_size
-Date: Aug, 2017
-KernelVersion: v4.14
-Contact: linux-nvdimm@lists.01.org
-Description:
- (RO) Size of a write request to a DIMM that will not incur a
- read-modify-write cycle at the memory controller.
-
- When the nfit driver initializes it runs an ARS (Address Range
- Scrub) operation across every pmem range. Part of that process
- involves determining the ARS capabilities of a given address
- range. One of the capabilities that is reported is the 'Clear
- Uncorrectable Error Range Length Unit Size' (see: ACPI 6.2
- section 9.20.7.4 Function Index 1 - Query ARS Capabilities).
- This property indicates the boundary at which the NVDIMM may
- need to perform read-modify-write cycles to maintain ECC (Error
- Correcting Code) blocks.
@@ -1978,19 +1978,8 @@ static ssize_t range_index_show(struct device *dev,
}
static DEVICE_ATTR_RO(range_index);
-static ssize_t ecc_unit_size_show(struct device *dev,
- struct device_attribute *attr, char *buf)
-{
- struct nd_region *nd_region = to_nd_region(dev);
- struct nfit_spa *nfit_spa = nd_region_provider_data(nd_region);
-
- return sprintf(buf, "%d\n", nfit_spa->clear_err_unit);
-}
-static DEVICE_ATTR_RO(ecc_unit_size);
-
static struct attribute *acpi_nfit_region_attributes[] = {
&dev_attr_range_index.attr,
- &dev_attr_ecc_unit_size.attr,
NULL,
};
The "Clear Error Unit" may be smaller than the ECC unit size on some devices. For example, poison may be tracked at 64-byte alignment even though the ECC unit is larger. Unless / until the ACPI specification provides a non-ambiguous way to communicate this property do not expose this to userspace. Software that had been using this property must already be prepared for the case where the property is not provided on older kernels, so it is safe to remove this attribute. Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com> --- Documentation/ABI/removed/sysfs-bus-nfit | 17 +++++++++++++++++ Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-bus-nfit | 19 ------------------- drivers/acpi/nfit/core.c | 11 ----------- 3 files changed, 17 insertions(+), 30 deletions(-) create mode 100644 Documentation/ABI/removed/sysfs-bus-nfit