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| author | Vaibhav Jain <vaibhav@linux.ibm.com> | 2020-06-15 14:44:02 +0200 |
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| committer | Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com> | 2020-06-16 03:22:43 +0200 |
| commit | 901e34905ac5e402fd690a1fdf51fc7f070bdc6e (patch) | |
| tree | e4938ee3133a0520cc414261d656dc5a62a93011 /Documentation | |
| parent | Linux 5.8-rc1 (diff) | |
| download | linux-901e34905ac5e402fd690a1fdf51fc7f070bdc6e.tar.xz linux-901e34905ac5e402fd690a1fdf51fc7f070bdc6e.zip | |
powerpc: Document details on H_SCM_HEALTH hcall
Add documentation to 'papr_hcalls.rst' describing the bitmap flags
that are returned from H_SCM_HEALTH hcall as per the PAPR-SCM
specification.
Signed-off-by: Vaibhav Jain <vaibhav@linux.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Ira Weiny <ira.weiny@intel.com>
Cc: "Aneesh Kumar K . V" <aneesh.kumar@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Cc: Ira Weiny <ira.weiny@intel.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200615124407.32596-2-vaibhav@linux.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/powerpc/papr_hcalls.rst | 46 |
1 files changed, 42 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/powerpc/papr_hcalls.rst b/Documentation/powerpc/papr_hcalls.rst index 3493631a60f8..48fcf1255a33 100644 --- a/Documentation/powerpc/papr_hcalls.rst +++ b/Documentation/powerpc/papr_hcalls.rst @@ -220,13 +220,51 @@ from the LPAR memory. **H_SCM_HEALTH** | Input: drcIndex -| Out: *health-bitmap, health-bit-valid-bitmap* +| Out: *health-bitmap (r4), health-bit-valid-bitmap (r5)* | Return Value: *H_Success, H_Parameter, H_Hardware* Given a DRC Index return the info on predictive failure and overall health of -the NVDIMM. The asserted bits in the health-bitmap indicate a single predictive -failure and health-bit-valid-bitmap indicate which bits in health-bitmap are -valid. +the PMEM device. The asserted bits in the health-bitmap indicate one or more states +(described in table below) of the PMEM device and health-bit-valid-bitmap indicate +which bits in health-bitmap are valid. The bits are reported in +reverse bit ordering for example a value of 0xC400000000000000 +indicates bits 0, 1, and 5 are valid. + +Health Bitmap Flags: + ++------+-----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +| Bit | Definition | ++======+=======================================================================+ +| 00 | PMEM device is unable to persist memory contents. | +| | If the system is powered down, nothing will be saved. | ++------+-----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +| 01 | PMEM device failed to persist memory contents. Either contents were | +| | not saved successfully on power down or were not restored properly on | +| | power up. | ++------+-----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +| 02 | PMEM device contents are persisted from previous IPL. The data from | +| | the last boot were successfully restored. | ++------+-----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +| 03 | PMEM device contents are not persisted from previous IPL. There was no| +| | data to restore from the last boot. | ++------+-----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +| 04 | PMEM device memory life remaining is critically low | ++------+-----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +| 05 | PMEM device will be garded off next IPL due to failure | ++------+-----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +| 06 | PMEM device contents cannot persist due to current platform health | +| | status. A hardware failure may prevent data from being saved or | +| | restored. | ++------+-----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +| 07 | PMEM device is unable to persist memory contents in certain conditions| ++------+-----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +| 08 | PMEM device is encrypted | ++------+-----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +| 09 | PMEM device has successfully completed a requested erase or secure | +| | erase procedure. | ++------+-----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +|10:63 | Reserved / Unused | ++------+-----------------------------------------------------------------------+ **H_SCM_PERFORMANCE_STATS** |