[PATCH 6/6] doc/devicetree: NVDIMM region documentation

Oliver O'Halloran oohall at gmail.com
Fri Mar 23 19:12:09 AEDT 2018


Add device-tree binding documentation for the nvdimm region driver.

Cc: devicetree at vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Oliver O'Halloran <oohall at gmail.com>
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 .../devicetree/bindings/nvdimm/nvdimm-region.txt   | 45 ++++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 45 insertions(+)
 create mode 100644 Documentation/devicetree/bindings/nvdimm/nvdimm-region.txt

diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/nvdimm/nvdimm-region.txt b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/nvdimm/nvdimm-region.txt
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..02091117ff16
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/nvdimm/nvdimm-region.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,45 @@
+Device-tree bindings for NVDIMM memory regions
+-----------------------------------------------------
+
+Non-volatile DIMMs are memory modules used to provide (cacheable) main memory
+that retains its contents across power cycles. In more practical terms, they
+are kind of storage device where the contents can be accessed by the CPU
+directly, rather than indirectly via a storage controller or similar. The an
+nvdimm-region specifies a physical address range that is hosted on an NVDIMM
+device.
+
+Bindings for the region nodes:
+-----------------------------
+
+Required properties:
+	- compatible = "nvdimm-region"
+
+	- reg = <base, size>;
+		The system physical address range of this nvdimm region.
+
+Optional properties:
+	- Any relevant NUMA assocativity properties for the target platform.
+	- A "volatile" property indicating that this region is actually in
+	  normal DRAM and does not require cache flushes after each write.
+
+A complete example:
+--------------------
+
+/ {
+	#size-cells = <2>;
+	#address-cells = <2>;
+
+	platform {
+		region at 5000 {
+			compatible = "nvdimm-region;
+			reg = <0x00000001 0x00000000 0x00000000 0x40000000>
+
+		};
+
+		region at 6000 {
+			compatible = "nvdimm-region";
+			reg = <0x00000001 0x00000000 0x00000000 0x40000000>
+			volatile;
+		};
+	};
+};
-- 
2.9.5



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