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nvdimm: add 'unarmed' option

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Currently the only vNVDIMM backend can guarantee the guest write
persistence is device DAX on Linux, because no host-side kernel cache
is involved in the guest access to it. The approach to detect whether
the backend is device DAX needs to access sysfs, which may not work
with SELinux.

Instead, we add the 'unarmed' option to device 'nvdimm', so that users
or management utils, which have enough knowledge about the backend,
can control the unarmed flag in guest ACPI NFIT via this option. The
guest Linux NVDIMM driver, for example, will mark the corresponding
vNVDIMM device read-only if the unarmed flag in guest NFIT is set.

The default value of 'unarmed' option is 'off' in order to keep the
backwards compatibility.

Signed-off-by: Haozhong Zhang <haozhong.zhang@intel.com>
Message-Id: <20171211072806.2812-4-haozhong.zhang@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Eduardo Habkost <ehabkost@redhat.com>
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Haozhong Zhang 2017-12-11 15:28:06 +08:00 • committed by Eduardo Habkost
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include/hw/mem/nvdimm.h
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@ -49,6 +49,7 @@
TYPE_NVDIMM)
#define NVDIMM_LABLE_SIZE_PROP "label-size"
#define NVDIMM_UNARMED_PROP "unarmed"
struct NVDIMMDevice {
/* private */
@ -74,6 +75,14 @@ struct NVDIMMDevice {
* guest via ACPI NFIT and _FIT method if NVDIMM hotplug is supported.
*/
MemoryRegion nvdimm_mr;
/*
* The 'on' value results in the unarmed flag set in ACPI NFIT,
* which can be used to notify guest implicitly that the host
* backend (e.g., files on HDD, /dev/pmemX, etc.) cannot guarantee
* the guest write persistence.
*/
bool unarmed;
};
typedef struct NVDIMMDevice NVDIMMDevice;