linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v5 1/7] pmem: add wb_cache

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Message-Id: <20151222144440.1ad9e076464f4751f3de6a1f@linux-foundation.org>
Date:	Tue, 22 Dec 2015 14:44:40 -0800
From:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
To:	Ross Zwisler <ross.zwisler@...ux.intel.com>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>,
	"J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@...ldses.org>,
	"Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@....edu>,
	Alexander Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>,
	Andreas Dilger <adilger.kernel@...ger.ca>,
	Dave Chinner <david@...morbit.com>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>, Jan Kara <jack@...e.com>,
	Jeff Layton <jlayton@...chiereds.net>,
	Matthew Wilcox <willy@...ux.intel.com>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-mm@...ck.org, linux-nvdimm@...1.01.org, x86@...nel.org,
	xfs@....sgi.com, Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@...el.com>,
	Matthew Wilcox <matthew.r.wilcox@...el.com>,
	Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@...ux.intel.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 1/7] pmem: add wb_cache_pmem() to the PMEM API

On Fri, 18 Dec 2015 22:22:14 -0700 Ross Zwisler <ross.zwisler@...ux.intel.com> wrote:

> The function __arch_wb_cache_pmem() was already an internal implementation
> detail of the x86 PMEM API, but this functionality needs to be exported as
> part of the general PMEM API to handle the fsync/msync case for DAX mmaps.
> 
> One thing worth noting is that we really do want this to be part of the
> PMEM API as opposed to a stand-alone function like clflush_cache_range()
> because of ordering restrictions.  By having wb_cache_pmem() as part of the
> PMEM API we can leave it unordered, call it multiple times to write back
> large amounts of memory, and then order the multiple calls with a single
> wmb_pmem().
> 
> @@ -138,7 +139,7 @@ static inline void arch_clear_pmem(void __pmem *addr, size_t size)
>  	else
>  		memset(vaddr, 0, size);
>  
> -	__arch_wb_cache_pmem(vaddr, size);
> +	arch_wb_cache_pmem(addr, size);
>  }
>  

reject.  I made this

	arch_wb_cache_pmem(vaddr, size);

due to Dan's
http://www.ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmots/broken-out/pmem-dax-clean-up-clear_pmem.patch
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