drivers/nvdimm/Kconfig
Source file repositories/reference/linux-study-clean/drivers/nvdimm/Kconfig
File Facts
- System
- Linux kernel
- Corpus path
drivers/nvdimm/Kconfig- Extension
[no extension]- Size
- 5679 bytes
- Lines
- 168
- Domain
- Driver Families
- Bucket
- drivers/nvdimm
- Inferred role
- Driver Families: build/configuration rule
- Status
- atlas-only
Why This File Exists
Repeatable hardware-adapter layer. Deep compatibility for every driver is out of scope; this atlas records patterns, probe lifecycles, bus glue, IRQ/DMA usage, and links back to core abstractions.
- Repeatable hardware-adapter layer. Deep compatibility for every driver is out of scope; this atlas records patterns, probe lifecycles, bus glue, IRQ/DMA usage, and links back to core abstractions.
- Defines or uses C structs; map object ownership, embedded links, reference counts, and lock ownership.
Dependency Surface
- No C-style include directives detected by the generator.
Detected Declarations
- No top-level syscall, struct, function, initcall, or export declaration detected by the generator.
Annotated Snippet
# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only
menuconfig LIBNVDIMM
tristate "NVDIMM (Non-Volatile Memory Device) Support"
depends on PHYS_ADDR_T_64BIT
depends on HAS_IOMEM
depends on BLK_DEV
select MEMREGION
help
Generic support for non-volatile memory devices including
ACPI-6-NFIT defined resources. On platforms that define an
NFIT, or otherwise can discover NVDIMM resources, a libnvdimm
bus is registered to advertise PMEM (persistent memory)
namespaces (/dev/pmemX). A PMEM namespace refers to a
memory resource that may span multiple DIMMs and support DAX
(see CONFIG_DAX).
if LIBNVDIMM
config BLK_DEV_PMEM
tristate "PMEM: Persistent memory block device support"
default LIBNVDIMM
select DAX
select ND_BTT if BTT
select ND_PFN if NVDIMM_PFN
help
Memory ranges for PMEM are described by either an NFIT
(NVDIMM Firmware Interface Table, see CONFIG_ACPI_NFIT), a
non-standard OEM-specific E820 memory type (type-12, see
CONFIG_X86_PMEM_LEGACY), or it is manually specified by the
'memmap=nn[KMG]!ss[KMG]' kernel command line (see
Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.rst). This driver converts
these persistent memory ranges into block devices that are
capable of DAX (direct-access) file system mappings. See
Documentation/driver-api/nvdimm/nvdimm.rst for more details.
Say Y if you want to use an NVDIMM
config ND_CLAIM
bool
config ND_BTT
tristate
config BTT
bool "BTT: Block Translation Table (atomic sector updates)"
default y if LIBNVDIMM
select ND_CLAIM
help
The Block Translation Table (BTT) provides atomic sector
update semantics for persistent memory devices, so that
applications that rely on sector writes not being torn (a
guarantee that typical disks provide) can continue to do so.
The BTT manifests itself as an alternate personality for an
NVDIMM namespace, i.e. a namespace can be in raw mode pmemX,
or 'sectored' mode.
Select Y if unsure
config ND_PFN
tristate
config NVDIMM_PFN
bool "PFN: Map persistent (device) memory"
default LIBNVDIMM
depends on ZONE_DEVICE
select ND_CLAIM
help
Map persistent memory, i.e. advertise it to the memory
management sub-system. By default persistent memory does
not support direct I/O, RDMA, or any other usage that
Annotation
- Atlas domain: Driver Families / drivers/nvdimm.
- Implementation status: atlas-only.
Implementation Notes
- This generated page is the file-by-file coverage layer; curated subsystem chapters should link here when they synthesize a multi-file control flow.
- Core OS pages should be promoted from atlas-only to deep-reviewed when they explain data structures, invariants, locking, lifecycle, and C implementation snippets.
- Driver-family pages are intentionally pattern-oriented unless they are part of the selected PCIe/NVMe representative device path.