linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v5 6/6] arch, x86: pmem api for ensuring durability of persistent memory updates

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Date:	Wed, 24 Jun 2015 14:35:55 +0200
From:	Richard Weinberger <richard@....at>
To:	Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>
CC:	Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@...el.com>, arnd@...db.de,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 6/6] arch, x86: pmem api for ensuring durability of
 persistent memory updates

Am 24.06.2015 um 14:08 schrieb Christoph Hellwig:
> On Tue, Jun 23, 2015 at 12:39:09PM +0200, Richard Weinberger wrote:
>> Not sure if I understand this correctly, is the plan to support pmem also on UML?
>> At least drivers/block/pmem.c cannot work on UML as it depends on io memory.
>>
>> Only x86 seems to have ARCH_HAS_NOCACHE_UACCESS, if UML would offer these methods
>> what drivers need them? I'm still not sure where it would make sense on UML as
>> uaccess on UML means ptrace() between host and guest process.
> 
> Ok, that makese snese.  Dan, how about just moving the new pmem helpers
> from cacheflush.h to a new asm/pmem.h to avoid having them dragged into
> the um build?

If UML does not build for whatever reason, please CC me.
I'll happily help out. Historically UML includes a lot stuff
it should not. So, untangling header dependencies does often
wonders. :-)

Thanks,
//richard
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