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Commit faa6d211 authored by Aneesh Kumar K.V's avatar Aneesh Kumar K.V Committed by Michael Ellerman
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powerpc/nvdimm: use H_SCM_QUERY hcall on H_OVERLAP error



Right now we force an unbind of SCM memory at drcindex on H_OVERLAP error.
This really slows down operations like kexec where we get the H_OVERLAP
error because we don't go through a full hypervisor re init.

H_OVERLAP error for a H_SCM_BIND_MEM hcall indicates that SCM memory at
drc index is already bound. Since we don't specify a logical memory
address for bind hcall, we can use the H_SCM_QUERY hcall to query
the already bound logical address.

Boot time difference with and without patch is:

[    5.583617] IOMMU table initialized, virtual merging enabled
[    5.603041] papr_scm ibm,persistent-memory:ibm,pmemory@44104001: Retrying bind after unbinding
[  301.514221] papr_scm ibm,persistent-memory:ibm,pmemory@44108001: Retrying bind after unbinding
[  340.057238] hv-24x7: read 1530 catalog entries, created 537 event attrs (0 failures), 275 descs

after fix

[    5.101572] IOMMU table initialized, virtual merging enabled
[    5.116984] papr_scm ibm,persistent-memory:ibm,pmemory@44104001: Querying SCM details
[    5.117223] papr_scm ibm,persistent-memory:ibm,pmemory@44108001: Querying SCM details
[    5.120530] hv-24x7: read 1530 catalog entries, created 537 event attrs (0 failures), 275 descs

Signed-off-by: default avatarAneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarMichael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20190903123452.28620-2-aneesh.kumar@linux.ibm.com
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