The interleave set cookie is used to determine if a label stored in the metadata space should be applied to the current region. This is important in the case of NVDIMMs since the firmware may change the interleaving configuration of a DIMM which would invalidate the existing labels. In our case the hypervisor hides those details from us so we don't really care, but libnvdimm still requires the interleave set cookie to be non-zero. For our purposes we just need the set cookie to be unique and fixed for a given PAPR SCM region and using the unit-guid (really a UUID) is fine for this purpose. Fixes: b5beae5e224f ("powerpc/pseries: Add driver for PAPR SCM regions") Signed-off-by: Oliver O'Halloran <oohall@gmail.com> [mpe: Use kernel types (u64)] Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Linux kernel ============ There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first. In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or ``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at: https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/ There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory, several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation. Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.
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