linux-kernel - [PATCH 13/13] libnvdimm, pmem: disable dax flushing for 'cache flush on fail' platforms

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Date:   Thu, 19 Jan 2017 19:51:23 -0800
From:   Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@...el.com>
To:     linux-nvdimm@...ts.01.org
Cc:     Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>, Matthew Wilcox <mawilcox@...rosoft.com>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@...hat.com>,
        linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org,
        Ross Zwisler <ross.zwisler@...ux.intel.com>,
        Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>
Subject: [PATCH 13/13] libnvdimm,
 pmem: disable dax flushing for 'cache flush on fail' platforms

There are platforms that arrange for caches to be flushed on a power
fail event. When the platform has this capability it is redundant to
spend cycles flushing caches at fsync(). Provide a libnvdimm module
parameter to override the default flushing behavior since there is no
other mechanism defined to detect this platform property.

Cc: Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>
Cc: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@...hat.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <mawilcox@...rosoft.com>
Cc: Ross Zwisler <ross.zwisler@...ux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@...el.com>
---
 drivers/nvdimm/region_devs.c |   11 +++++++++++
 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+)

diff --git a/drivers/nvdimm/region_devs.c b/drivers/nvdimm/region_devs.c
index ef32b938023e..4cc7fbc4f13f 100644
--- a/drivers/nvdimm/region_devs.c
+++ b/drivers/nvdimm/region_devs.c
@@ -11,6 +11,7 @@
  * General Public License for more details.
  */
 #include <linux/scatterlist.h>
+#include <linux/moduleparam.h>
 #include <linux/highmem.h>
 #include <linux/sched.h>
 #include <linux/slab.h>
@@ -21,6 +22,11 @@
 #include "nd-core.h"
 #include "nd.h"
 
+static bool platform_has_flush_on_fail;
+module_param(platform_has_flush_on_fail, bool, 00444);
+MODULE_PARM_DESC(platform_has_flush_on_fail,
+	"Platform arranges for cpu caches to be flushed on power failure");
+
 /*
  * For readq() and writeq() on 32-bit builds, the hi-lo, lo-hi order is
  * irrelevant.
@@ -963,6 +969,11 @@ int nvdimm_has_flush(struct nd_region *nd_region)
 	struct nd_region_data *ndrd = dev_get_drvdata(&nd_region->dev);
 	int i;
 
+	if (platform_has_flush_on_fail) {
+		pr_info_once("libnvdimm.platform_has_flush_on_fail enabled\n");
+		return -EINVAL;
+	}
+
 	if (is_nd_volatile(&nd_region->dev))
 		return -EINVAL;