nvdimm, acpi: support NFIT platform capabilities

Add a machine command line option to allow the user to control the Platform
Capabilities Structure in the virtualized NFIT.  This Platform Capabilities
Structure was added in ACPI 6.2 Errata A.

Signed-off-by: Ross Zwisler <ross.zwisler@linux.intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
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Ross Zwisler 2018-05-21 10:32:02 -06:00 committed by Michael S. Tsirkin
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@ -153,3 +153,30 @@ guest NVDIMM region mapping structure. This unarmed flag indicates
guest software that this vNVDIMM device contains a region that cannot
accept persistent writes. In result, for example, the guest Linux
NVDIMM driver, marks such vNVDIMM device as read-only.
Platform Capabilities
---------------------
ACPI 6.2 Errata A added support for a new Platform Capabilities Structure
which allows the platform to communicate what features it supports related to
NVDIMM data durability. Users can provide a capabilities value to a guest via
the optional "nvdimm-cap" machine command line option:
-machine pc,accel=kvm,nvdimm,nvdimm-cap=2
This "nvdimm-cap" field is an integer, and is the combined value of the
various capability bits defined in table 5-137 of the ACPI 6.2 Errata A spec.
Here is a quick summary of the three bits that are defined as of that spec:
Bit[0] - CPU Cache Flush to NVDIMM Durability on Power Loss Capable.
Bit[1] - Memory Controller Flush to NVDIMM Durability on Power Loss Capable.
Note: If bit 0 is set to 1 then this bit shall be set to 1 as well.
Bit[2] - Byte Addressable Persistent Memory Hardware Mirroring Capable.
So, a "nvdimm-cap" value of 2 would mean that the platform supports Memory
Controller Flush on Power Loss, a value of 3 would mean that the platform
supports CPU Cache Flush and Memory Controller Flush on Power Loss, etc.
For a complete list of the flags available and for more detailed descriptions,
please consult the ACPI spec.