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[v4,1/3] Documentatiion/ABI: Add ABI documentation for sys-bus-dax

Message ID 20231212-vv-dax_abi-v4-1-1351758f0c92@intel.com
State Superseded
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Series Add DAX ABI for memmap_on_memory | expand

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Verma, Vishal L Dec. 12, 2023, 7:08 p.m. UTC 
Add the missing sysfs ABI documentation for the device DAX subsystem.
Various ABI attributes under this have been present since v5.1, and more
have been added over time. In preparation for adding a new attribute,
add this file with the historical details.

Cc: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Vishal Verma <vishal.l.verma@intel.com>
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 Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-bus-dax | 151 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 151 insertions(+)

Comments

Jonathan Cameron Dec. 13, 2023, 4:50 p.m. UTC | #1 
On Tue, 12 Dec 2023 12:08:30 -0700
Vishal Verma <vishal.l.verma@intel.com> wrote:

> Add the missing sysfs ABI documentation for the device DAX subsystem.
> Various ABI attributes under this have been present since v5.1, and more
> have been added over time. In preparation for adding a new attribute,
> add this file with the historical details.
> 
> Cc: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
> Signed-off-by: Vishal Verma <vishal.l.verma@intel.com>

Hi Vishal,  One editorial suggestions.

I don't know the interface well enough to do a good review of the content
so leaving that for Dan or others.

> +What:		/sys/bus/dax/devices/daxX.Y/mapping[0..N]/start
> +Date:		October, 2020
> +KernelVersion:	v5.10
> +Contact:	nvdimm@lists.linux.dev
> +Description:
> +		(RO) A dax device may have multiple constituent discontiguous
> +		address ranges. These are represented by the different
> +		'mappingX' subdirectories. The 'start' attribute indicates the
> +		start physical address for the given range.

A common option for these files is to have a single entry with two What:
lines.  Here that would avoid duplication of majority of this text across
the start, end  and page_offset entries.  Alternatively you could do an
entry for the mapping[0..N] directory with the shared text then separate
entries for the 3 files under there.


> +
> +What:		/sys/bus/dax/devices/daxX.Y/mapping[0..N]/end
> +Date:		October, 2020
> +KernelVersion:	v5.10
> +Contact:	nvdimm@lists.linux.dev
> +Description:
> +		(RO) A dax device may have multiple constituent discontiguous
> +		address ranges. These are represented by the different
> +		'mappingX' subdirectories. The 'end' attribute indicates the
> +		end physical address for the given range.
> +
> +What:		/sys/bus/dax/devices/daxX.Y/mapping[0..N]/page_offset
> +Date:		October, 2020
> +KernelVersion:	v5.10
> +Contact:	nvdimm@lists.linux.dev
> +Description:
> +		(RO) A dax device may have multiple constituent discontiguous
> +		address ranges. These are represented by the different
> +		'mappingX' subdirectories. The 'page_offset' attribute indicates the
> +		offset of the current range in the dax device.
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diff --git a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-bus-dax b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-bus-dax
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..a61a7b186017
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-bus-dax
@@ -0,0 +1,151 @@ 
+What:		/sys/bus/dax/devices/daxX.Y/align
+Date:		October, 2020
+KernelVersion:	v5.10
+Contact:	nvdimm@lists.linux.dev
+Description:
+		(RW) Provides a way to specify an alignment for a dax device.
+		Values allowed are constrained by the physical address ranges
+		that back the dax device, and also by arch requirements.
+
+What:		/sys/bus/dax/devices/daxX.Y/mapping
+Date:		October, 2020
+KernelVersion:	v5.10
+Contact:	nvdimm@lists.linux.dev
+Description:
+		(WO) Provides a way to allocate a mapping range under a dax
+		device. Specified in the format <start>-<end>.
+
+What:		/sys/bus/dax/devices/daxX.Y/mapping[0..N]/start
+Date:		October, 2020
+KernelVersion:	v5.10
+Contact:	nvdimm@lists.linux.dev
+Description:
+		(RO) A dax device may have multiple constituent discontiguous
+		address ranges. These are represented by the different
+		'mappingX' subdirectories. The 'start' attribute indicates the
+		start physical address for the given range.
+
+What:		/sys/bus/dax/devices/daxX.Y/mapping[0..N]/end
+Date:		October, 2020
+KernelVersion:	v5.10
+Contact:	nvdimm@lists.linux.dev
+Description:
+		(RO) A dax device may have multiple constituent discontiguous
+		address ranges. These are represented by the different
+		'mappingX' subdirectories. The 'end' attribute indicates the
+		end physical address for the given range.
+
+What:		/sys/bus/dax/devices/daxX.Y/mapping[0..N]/page_offset
+Date:		October, 2020
+KernelVersion:	v5.10
+Contact:	nvdimm@lists.linux.dev
+Description:
+		(RO) A dax device may have multiple constituent discontiguous
+		address ranges. These are represented by the different
+		'mappingX' subdirectories. The 'page_offset' attribute indicates the
+		offset of the current range in the dax device.
+
+What:		/sys/bus/dax/devices/daxX.Y/resource
+Date:		June, 2019
+KernelVersion:	v5.3
+Contact:	nvdimm@lists.linux.dev
+Description:
+		(RO) The resource attribute indicates the starting physical
+		address of a dax device. In case of a device with multiple
+		constituent ranges, it indicates the starting address of the
+		first range.
+
+What:		/sys/bus/dax/devices/daxX.Y/size
+Date:		October, 2020
+KernelVersion:	v5.10
+Contact:	nvdimm@lists.linux.dev
+Description:
+		(RW) The size attribute indicates the total size of a dax
+		device. For creating subdivided dax devices, or for resizing
+		an existing device, the new size can be written to this as
+		part of the reconfiguration process.
+
+What:		/sys/bus/dax/devices/daxX.Y/numa_node
+Date:		November, 2019
+KernelVersion:	v5.5
+Contact:	nvdimm@lists.linux.dev
+Description:
+		(RO) If NUMA is enabled and the platform has affinitized the
+		backing device for this dax device, emit the CPU node
+		affinity for this device.
+
+What:		/sys/bus/dax/devices/daxX.Y/target_node
+Date:		February, 2019
+KernelVersion:	v5.1
+Contact:	nvdimm@lists.linux.dev
+Description:
+		(RO) The target-node attribute is the Linux numa-node that a
+		device-dax instance may create when it is online. Prior to
+		being online the device's 'numa_node' property reflects the
+		closest online cpu node which is the typical expectation of a
+		device 'numa_node'. Once it is online it becomes its own
+		distinct numa node.
+
+What:		$(readlink -f /sys/bus/dax/devices/daxX.Y)/../dax_region/available_size
+Date:		October, 2020
+KernelVersion:	v5.10
+Contact:	nvdimm@lists.linux.dev
+Description:
+		(RO) The available_size attribute tracks available dax region
+		capacity. This only applies to volatile hmem devices, not pmem
+		devices, since pmem devices are defined by nvdimm namespace
+		boundaries.
+
+What:		$(readlink -f /sys/bus/dax/devices/daxX.Y)/../dax_region/size
+Date:		July, 2017
+KernelVersion:	v5.1
+Contact:	nvdimm@lists.linux.dev
+Description:
+		(RO) The size attribute indicates the size of a given dax region
+		in bytes.
+
+What:		$(readlink -f /sys/bus/dax/devices/daxX.Y)/../dax_region/align
+Date:		October, 2020
+KernelVersion:	v5.10
+Contact:	nvdimm@lists.linux.dev
+Description:
+		(RO) The align attribute indicates alignment of the dax region.
+		Changes on align may not always be valid, when say certain
+		mappings were created with 2M and then we switch to 1G. This
+		validates all ranges against the new value being attempted, post
+		resizing.
+
+What:		$(readlink -f /sys/bus/dax/devices/daxX.Y)/../dax_region/seed
+Date:		October, 2020
+KernelVersion:	v5.10
+Contact:	nvdimm@lists.linux.dev
+Description:
+		(RO) The seed device is a concept for dynamic dax regions to be
+		able to split the region amongst multiple sub-instances.  The
+		seed device, similar to libnvdimm seed devices, is a device
+		that starts with zero capacity allocated and unbound to a
+		driver.
+
+What:		$(readlink -f /sys/bus/dax/devices/daxX.Y)/../dax_region/create
+Date:		October, 2020
+KernelVersion:	v5.10
+Contact:	nvdimm@lists.linux.dev
+Description:
+		(RW) The create interface to the dax region provides a way to
+		create a new unconfigured dax device under the given region, which
+		can then be configured (with a size etc.) and then probed.
+
+What:		$(readlink -f /sys/bus/dax/devices/daxX.Y)/../dax_region/delete
+Date:		October, 2020
+KernelVersion:	v5.10
+Contact:	nvdimm@lists.linux.dev
+Description:
+		(WO) The delete interface for a dax region provides for deletion
+		of any 0-sized and idle dax devices.
+
+What:		$(readlink -f /sys/bus/dax/devices/daxX.Y)/../dax_region/id
+Date:		July, 2017
+KernelVersion:	v5.1
+Contact:	nvdimm@lists.linux.dev
+Description:
+		(RO) The id attribute indicates the region id of a dax region.