On Fri, 2016-08-26 at 11:39 -0700, Dan Williams wrote: > On Fri, Aug 26, 2016 at 11:26 AM, Kani, Toshimitsu <toshi.kani@xxxxxx > m> wrote: > > > > On Tue, 2016-08-23 at 14:54 -0700, Dan Williams wrote: > > > > > > Per "ACPI 6.1 Section 9.20.3" NVDIMM devices, children of the > > > ACPI0012 NVDIMM Root device, can receive health event > > > notifications. > > > > > > Given that these devices are precluded from registering a > > > notification handler via acpi_driver.acpi_device_ops (due to no > > > _HID), we use acpi_install_notify_handler() directly. > > > > I've confirmed that this ACPI notify handler is called properly. > > > > > > > > The registered handler, acpi_nvdimm_notify(), triggers a poll(2) > > > event on the nmemX/nfit/flags sysfs attribute when a health event > > > notification is received. > > > > This sounds good idea, but should we document that the value of > > sysfs 'flags' itself does not get updated? User space program will > > then need to call its _DSM to get health status. > > Yes, this plus the new scrub attribute behavior need documentation. > I'll prepare a refresh for Documentation/nvdimm/nvdimm.txt. > > The need to call a _DSM after a notification event is documented in > the ACPI spec, but you're right, we do need to connect that language > to the Linux specific mechanism. Sounds great. With that: Reviewed-by: Toshi Kani <toshi.kani@xxxxxxx> Thanks! -Toshi��.n��������+%������w��{.n�����{�����ܨ}���Ơz�j:+v�����w����ޙ��&�)ߡ�a����z�ޗ���ݢj��w�f