There are scenarios when a dimm-provider need to allocate some per-dimm data that can be quickly retrieved. This data can be used to cache data that spans multiple 'struct ndctl_cmd' submissions.
Unfortunately currently in libnvdimm there is no easy way to implement this. Even if this data is some how stored in some field of 'struct ndctl_dimm', managing its lifetime is a challenge. To solve this problem, the patch proposes a new member 'struct ndctl_dimm.dimm_user_data' to store per-dimm data interpretation of which is specific to a dimm-provider. Also two new dimm-ops namely dimm_init() & dimm_uninit() are introduced that can be used to manage the lifetime of this per-dimm data. Semantics ========= int (*dimm_init)(struct ndctl_dimm *): This callback will be called just after dimm-probe inside add_dimm() is completed. Dimm-providers should use this callback to allocate per-dimm data and assign it to 'struct ndctl_dimm.dimm_user_data' member. In case this function returns an error, dimm initialization is halted and errors out. void (*dimm_uninit)(struct ndctl_dimm *): This callback will be called during free_dimm() and is only called if previous call to 'dimm_ops->dimm_init()' had reported no error. Dimm-providers should use this callback to unallocate and cleanup 'dimm_user_data'. Signed-off-by: Vaibhav Jain <[email protected]> --- Changelog: v1..v2: * Changed the patch order --- ndctl/lib/libndctl.c | 11 +++++++++++ ndctl/lib/private.h | 5 +++++ 2 files changed, 16 insertions(+) diff --git a/ndctl/lib/libndctl.c b/ndctl/lib/libndctl.c index 60dad8e56f5a..cda17ff32410 100644 --- a/ndctl/lib/libndctl.c +++ b/ndctl/lib/libndctl.c @@ -598,6 +598,11 @@ static void free_dimm(struct ndctl_dimm *dimm) { if (!dimm) return; + + /* If needed call the dimm uninitialization function */ + if (dimm->ops && dimm->ops->dimm_uninit) + dimm->ops->dimm_uninit(dimm); + free(dimm->unique_id); free(dimm->dimm_buf); free(dimm->dimm_path); @@ -1714,8 +1719,14 @@ static void *add_dimm(void *parent, int id, const char *dimm_base) if (dimm->cmd_family == NVDIMM_FAMILY_PAPR_SCM) dimm->ops = papr_scm_dimm_ops; + /* Call the dimm initialization function if needed */ + if (!rc && dimm->ops && dimm->ops->dimm_init) + rc = dimm->ops->dimm_init(dimm); + out: if (rc) { + /* Ensure dimm_uninit() is not called during free_dimm() */ + dimm->ops = NULL; err(ctx, "Unable to probe dimm:%d. Err:%d\n", id, rc); goto err_read; } diff --git a/ndctl/lib/private.h b/ndctl/lib/private.h index 05c703ed71b4..679e359a1070 100644 --- a/ndctl/lib/private.h +++ b/ndctl/lib/private.h @@ -99,6 +99,7 @@ struct ndctl_dimm { } flags; int locked; int aliased; + void *dimm_user_data; struct list_node list; int formats; int format[0]; @@ -347,6 +348,10 @@ struct ndctl_dimm_ops { int (*fw_update_supported)(struct ndctl_dimm *); int (*xlat_firmware_status)(struct ndctl_cmd *); u32 (*get_firmware_status)(struct ndctl_cmd *); + /* Called just after dimm is initialized and probed */ + int (*dimm_init)(struct ndctl_dimm *); + /* Called just before struct ndctl_dimm is de-allocated */ + void (*dimm_uninit)(struct ndctl_dimm *); }; extern struct ndctl_dimm_ops * const intel_dimm_ops; -- 2.25.3 _______________________________________________ Linux-nvdimm mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected]
