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Platform reboots are expensive. Towards reducing downtime to apply firmware updates the Intel NVDIMM command definition is growing support for applying live firmware updates that only require temporarily suspending memory traffic instead of a full reboot. Follow-on commits add support for triggering firmware activation, this patch only defines the commands, adds probe support, and validates that they are blocked via the ioctl path. The ioctl-path block ensures that the OS is in charge since these commands have side effects only the OS can handle. Specifically firmware activation may cause the memory controller to be quiesced on the order of 100s of milliseconds. In that case Linux ensure the activation only takes place while the OS is in a suspend state. Link: https://pmem.io/documents/IntelOptanePMem_DSM_Interface-V2.0.pdf Cc: Vishal Verma <vishal.l.verma@intel.com> Cc: Dave Jiang <dave.jiang@intel.com> Cc: Ira Weiny <ira.weiny@intel.com> Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@rjwysocki.net> Cc: Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Vishal Verma <vishal.l.verma@intel.com> |
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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.