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We currently register a platform device for e820 type-12 memory and register a nvdimm bus beneath it. Registering the platform device triggers the device-core machinery to probe for a driver, but that search currently comes up empty. Building the nvdimm-bus registration into the e820_pmem platform device registration in this way forces libnvdimm to be built-in. Instead, convert the built-in portion of CONFIG_X86_PMEM_LEGACY to simply register a platform device and move the rest of the logic to the driver for e820_pmem, for the following reasons: 1/ Letting e820_pmem support be a module allows building and testing libnvdimm.ko changes without rebooting 2/ All the normal policy around modules can be applied to e820_pmem (unbind to disable and/or blacklisting the module from loading by default) 3/ Moving the driver to a generic location and converting it to scan "iomem_resource" rather than "e820.map" means any other architecture can take advantage of this simple nvdimm resource discovery mechanism by registering a resource named "Persistent Memory (legacy)" Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
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480 B
C
20 lines
480 B
C
/*
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* Copyright (c) 2015, Christoph Hellwig.
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* Copyright (c) 2015, Intel Corporation.
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*/
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#include <linux/platform_device.h>
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#include <linux/module.h>
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static __init int register_e820_pmem(void)
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{
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struct platform_device *pdev;
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/*
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* See drivers/nvdimm/e820.c for the implementation, this is
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* simply here to trigger the module to load on demand.
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*/
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pdev = platform_device_alloc("e820_pmem", -1);
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return platform_device_add(pdev);
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}
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device_initcall(register_e820_pmem);
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