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libnvdimm: Add a poison list and export badblocks

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During region creation, perform Address Range Scrubs (ARS) for the SPA
(System Physical Address) ranges to retrieve known poison locations from
firmware. Add a new data structure 'nd_poison' which is used as a list
in nvdimm_bus to store these poison locations.

When creating a pmem namespace, if there is any known poison associated
with its physical address space, convert the poison ranges to bad sectors
that are exposed using the badblocks interface.

Signed-off-by: Vishal Verma <vishal.l.verma@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
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Vishal Verma 2015-12-24 19:21:43 -07:00 • committed by Dan Williams
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