libnvdimm, e820: make CONFIG_X86_PMEM_LEGACY a tristate option
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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- arch/x86/Kconfig 5 additions, 1 deletionarch/x86/Kconfig
- arch/x86/include/uapi/asm/e820.h 1 addition, 1 deletionarch/x86/include/uapi/asm/e820.h
- arch/x86/kernel/Makefile 1 addition, 1 deletionarch/x86/kernel/Makefile
- arch/x86/kernel/pmem.c 8 additions, 71 deletionsarch/x86/kernel/pmem.c
- drivers/nvdimm/Makefile 3 additions, 0 deletionsdrivers/nvdimm/Makefile
- drivers/nvdimm/e820.c 86 additions, 0 deletionsdrivers/nvdimm/e820.c
- tools/testing/nvdimm/Kbuild 4 additions, 0 deletionstools/testing/nvdimm/Kbuild
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