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2015-11-17lightnvm: check for NAND flash and its typeMatias Bjørling1-0/+10
Only NAND flash with SLC and MLC is supported. Make sure to not try to initialize TLC memory or other non-volatile memory types. Signed-off-by: Matias Bjørling <m@bjorling.me> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
2015-11-17lightnvm: update bad block table formatMatias Bjørling2-10/+24
The specification was changed to reflect a multi-value bad block table. Instead of bit-based bad block table, the bad block table now allows eight bad block categories. Currently four are defined: * Factory bad blocks * Grown bad blocks * Device-side reserved blocks * Host-side reserved blocks The factory and grown bad blocks are the regular bad blocks. The reserved blocks are either for internal use or external use. In particular, the device-side reserved blocks allows the host to bootstrap from a limited number of flash blocks. Reducing the flash blocks to scan upon super block initialization. Support for both get bad block table and set bad block table is added. Signed-off-by: Matias Bjørling <m@bjorling.me> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
2015-11-07block: change ->make_request_fn() and users to return a queue cookieJens Axboe1-4/+5
No functional changes in this patch, but it prepares us for returning a more useful cookie related to the IO that was queued up. Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com> Acked-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Acked-by: Keith Busch <keith.busch@intel.com>
2015-11-03lightnvm: refactor phys addrs type to u64Matias Bjørling2-12/+11
For cases where CONFIG_LBDAF is not set. The struct ppa_addr exceeds its type on 32 bit architectures. ppa_addr requires a 64bit integer to hold the generic ppa format. We therefore refactor it to u64 and replaces the sector_t usages with u64 for physical addresses. Signed-off-by: Matias Bjørling <m@bjorling.me> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
2015-10-29rrpc: Round-robin sector target with cost-based gcMatias Bjørling4-0/+1571
This target allows an Open-Channel SSD to be exposed asas a block device. It implements a round-robin approach for sector allocation, together with a greedy cost-based garbage collector. Signed-off-by: Matias Bjørling <m@bjorling.me> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
2015-10-29gennvm: Generic NVM managerMatias Bjørling4-0/+539
The implementation for Open-Channel SSDs is divided into media management and targets. This patch implements a generic media manager for open-channel SSDs. After a media manager has been initialized, single or multiple targets can be instantiated with the media managed as the backend. Signed-off-by: Matias Bjørling <m@bjorling.me> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
2015-10-29lightnvm: Support for Open-Channel SSDsMatias Bjørling3-0/+859
Open-channel SSDs are devices that share responsibilities with the host in order to implement and maintain features that typical SSDs keep strictly in firmware. These include (i) the Flash Translation Layer (FTL), (ii) bad block management, and (iii) hardware units such as the flash controller, the interface controller, and large amounts of flash chips. In this way, Open-channels SSDs exposes direct access to their physical flash storage, while keeping a subset of the internal features of SSDs. LightNVM is a specification that gives support to Open-channel SSDs LightNVM allows the host to manage data placement, garbage collection, and parallelism. Device specific responsibilities such as bad block management, FTL extensions to support atomic IOs, or metadata persistence are still handled by the device. The implementation of LightNVM consists of two parts: core and (multiple) targets. The core implements functionality shared across targets. This is initialization, teardown and statistics. The targets implement the interface that exposes physical flash to user-space applications. Examples of such targets include key-value store, object-store, as well as traditional block devices, which can be application-specific. Contributions in this patch from: Javier Gonzalez <jg@lightnvm.io> Dongsheng Yang <yangds.fnst@cn.fujitsu.com> Jesper Madsen <jmad@itu.dk> Signed-off-by: Matias Bjørling <m@bjorling.me> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>