This is an attempt to document the nfit sysfs interface. The descriptions have been collected from git commit logs and the ACPI specification 6.2. There are still two undocumented attributes- range_index and ecc_unit_size, for which I couldn't collect complete information.
Signed-off-by: Aishwarya Pant <aishp...@gmail.com> --- Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-bus-nfit | 202 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 202 insertions(+) create mode 100644 Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-bus-nfit diff --git a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-bus-nfit b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-bus-nfit new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..758d8d0d4c37 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-bus-nfit @@ -0,0 +1,202 @@ +What: /sys/bus/nd/devices/nmemX/nfit/serial +Date: Apr, 2015 +KernelVersion: v4.1 +Contact: linux-nvd...@lists.01.org +Description: + (RO) Serial number of the NVDIMM (non-volatile dual in-line + memory module), assigned by the module vendor. + + +What: /sys/bus/nd/devices/nmemX/nfit/handle +Date: Apr, 2015 +KernelVersion: v4.1 +Contact: linux-nvd...@lists.01.org +Description: + (RO) The address (given by the _ADR object) of the device on its + parent bus of the NVDIMM device containing the NVDIMM region. + + +What: /sys/bus/nd/devices/nmemX/nfit/device +Date: Apr, 2015 +KernelVersion: v4.1 +Contact: linux-nvd...@lists.01.org +Description: + (RO) Identifier for the NVDIMM, assigned by the module vendor. + + +What: /sys/bus/nd/devices/nmemX/nfit/rev_id +Date: Apr, 2015 +KernelVersion: v4.1 +Contact: linux-nvd...@lists.01.org +Description: + (RO) Revision of the NVDIMM, assigned by the module vendor. + + +What: /sys/bus/nd/devices/nmemX/nfit/phys_id +Date: Apr, 2015 +KernelVersion: v4.1 +Contact: linux-nvd...@lists.01.org +Description: + (RO) Handle (i.e., instance number) for the SMBIOS (system + management BIOS) Memory Device structure describing the NVDIMM + containing the NVDIMM region. + + +What: /sys/bus/nd/devices/nmemX/nfit/flags +Date: Jun, 2015 +KernelVersion: v4.1 +Contact: linux-nvd...@lists.01.org +Description: + (RO) The flags in the NFIT memory device sub-structure indicate + the state of the data on the nvdimm relative to its energy + source or last "flush to persistence". + + The attribute is a translation of the 'NVDIMM State Flags' field + in section 5.2.25.3 'NVDIMM Region Mapping' Structure of the + ACPI specification 6.2. + + The health states are "save_fail", "restore_fail", "flush_fail", + "not_armed", "smart_event", "map_fail" and "smart_notify". + + +What: /sys/bus/nd/devices/nmemX/nfit/format +What: /sys/bus/nd/devices/nmemX/nfit/format1 +What: /sys/bus/nd/devices/nmemX/nfit/formats +Date: Apr, 2016 +KernelVersion: v4.6 +Contact: linux-nvd...@lists.01.org +Description: + (RO) Identifiers for the programming interface. Starting with + ACPI 6.1 an NFIT table reports multiple 'NVDIMM Control Region + Structure' instances per-dimm, one for each supported format + interface. That code is represented in the sysfs as follows: + nmemX/nfit/formats, nmemX/nfit/format, nmemX/nfit/format1, + nmemX/nfit/format2 ... nmemX/nfit/formatN, where format2 - + formatN are theoretical as there are no known DIMMs with support + for more than two interface formats. The 'formats' attribute + displays the number of supported interfaces. + + This layout is compatible with existing libndctl binaries that + only expect one code per-dimm as they will ignore + nmemX/nfit/formats and nmemX/nfit/formatN. + + +What: /sys/bus/nd/devices/nmemX/nfit/vendor +Date: Apr, 2016 +KernelVersion: v4.6 +Contact: linux-nvd...@lists.01.org +Description: + (RO) Identifier indicating the vendor of the NVDIMM. + + +What: /sys/bus/nd/devices/nmemX/nfit/dsm_mask +Date: Apr, 2016 +KernelVersion: v4.6 +Contact: linux-nvd...@lists.01.org +Description: + (RO) The bitmask indicates the supported device specific control + functions. + + +What: /sys/bus/nd/devices/nmemX/nfit/family +Date: Apr, 2016 +KernelVersion: v4.6 +Contact: linux-nvd...@lists.01.org +Description: + (RO) Displays the NVDIMM family (and the command sets). Values + 0, 1, 2 and 3 correspond to NVDIMM_FAMILY_INTEL, + NVDIMM_FAMILY_HPE1, NVDIMM_FAMILY_HPE2 and NVDIMM_FAMILY_MSFT + respectively. + + +What: /sys/bus/nd/devices/nmemX/nfit/id +Date: Apr, 2016 +KernelVersion: v4.6 +Contact: linux-nvd...@lists.01.org +Description: + (RO) ACPI specification 6.2 section 5.2.25.9, defines an + identifier for an NVDIMM, which refelects the id attribute. + + If the manufacturing location and manufacturing date fields are + valid, then 'id' is composed of the vendor id (bytes 0-1), + manufacturing location byte, manufacturing date (bytes 0-1) and + the serial number(bytes 0-3), otherwise it is composed of vendor + id (bytes 0-1) and serial number (bytes 0-3) + + +What: /sys/bus/nd/devices/nmemX/nfit/subsystem_vendor +Date: Apr, 2016 +KernelVersion: v4.6 +Contact: linux-nvd...@lists.01.org +Description: + (RO) Vendor of the NVDIMM non-volatile memory subsystem + controller. + + +What: /sys/bus/nd/devices/nmemX/nfit/subsystem_rev_id +Date: Apr, 2016 +KernelVersion: v4.6 +Contact: linux-nvd...@lists.01.org +Description: + (RO) Revision of the NVDIMM non-volatile memory subsystem + controller, assigned by the non-volatile memory subsystem + controller vendor. + + +What: /sys/bus/nd/devices/nmemX/nfit/subsystem_device +Date: Apr, 2016 +KernelVersion: v4.6 +Contact: linux-nvd...@lists.01.org +Description: + (RO) Identifier for the NVDIMM non-volatile memory subsystem + controller, assigned by the non-volatile memory subsystem + controller vendor. + + +What: /sys/bus/nd/devices/ndbusX/nfit/revision +Date: Apr, 2015 +KernelVersion: v4.1 +Contact: linux-nvd...@lists.01.org +Description: + (RO) ACPI Specification minor version number. + + +What: /sys/bus/nd/devices/ndbusX/nfit/scrub +Date: Sep, 2016 +KernelVersion: v4.8 +Contact: linux-nvd...@lists.01.org +Description: + (RW) This shows the number of full Address Range Scrubs (ARS) + that have been completed since driver load time. Userspace can + wait on this using select/poll etc. A '+' at the end indicates + an ARS is in progress + + Writing a value of 1 triggers an ARS scan. + + +What: /sys/bus/nd/devices/ndbusX/nfit/hw_error_scrub +Date: Sep, 2016 +KernelVersion: v4.8 +Contact: linux-nvd...@lists.01.org +Description: + (RW) Provides a way to toggle the behavior between just adding + the address (cache line) where the MCE happened to the poison + list and doing a full scrub. The former (selective insertion of + the address) is done unconditionally. + + This attribute can have the following values written to it: + + '0': Switch to the default mode where an exception will only + insert the address of the memory error into the poison and + badblocks lists. + '1': Enable a full scrub to happen if an exception for a memory + error is received. + + +What: /sys/bus/nd/devices/ndbusX/nfit/dsm_mask +Date: Jun, 2017 +KernelVersion: v4.12 +Contact: linux-nvd...@lists.01.org +Description: + (RO) The bitmask indicates the supported bus specific control + functions. -- 2.16.1
