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authorDan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>2023-06-26 02:01:45 +0300
committerDan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>2023-06-26 02:01:45 +0300
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Merge branch 'for-6.5/cxl-background' into for-6.5/cxl
Pick up the sanitization work and the infrastructure for other background commands for 6.5. Sanitization has a different completion path than typical background commands so it was important to have both thought out and implemented before either went upstream.
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@@ -58,6 +58,43 @@ Description:
affinity for this device.
+What: /sys/bus/cxl/devices/memX/security/state
+Date: June, 2023
+KernelVersion: v6.5
+Contact: linux-cxl@vger.kernel.org
+Description:
+ (RO) Reading this file will display the CXL security state for
+ that device. Such states can be: 'disabled', 'sanitize', when
+ a sanitization is currently underway; or those available only
+ for persistent memory: 'locked', 'unlocked' or 'frozen'. This
+ sysfs entry is select/poll capable from userspace to notify
+ upon completion of a sanitize operation.
+
+
+What: /sys/bus/cxl/devices/memX/security/sanitize
+Date: June, 2023
+KernelVersion: v6.5
+Contact: linux-cxl@vger.kernel.org
+Description:
+ (WO) Write a boolean 'true' string value to this attribute to
+ sanitize the device to securely re-purpose or decommission it.
+ This is done by ensuring that all user data and meta-data,
+ whether it resides in persistent capacity, volatile capacity,
+ or the LSA, is made permanently unavailable by whatever means
+ is appropriate for the media type. This functionality requires
+ the device to be not be actively decoding any HPA ranges.
+
+
+What /sys/bus/cxl/devices/memX/security/erase
+Date: June, 2023
+KernelVersion: v6.5
+Contact: linux-cxl@vger.kernel.org
+Description:
+ (WO) Write a boolean 'true' string value to this attribute to
+ secure erase user data by changing the media encryption keys for
+ all user data areas of the device.
+
+
What: /sys/bus/cxl/devices/*/devtype
Date: June, 2021
KernelVersion: v5.14