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* [PATCH 00/13] deprecate pcommit
@ 2016-06-04 20:52 ` Dan Williams
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 73+ messages in thread
From: Dan Williams @ 2016-06-04 20:52 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: linux-nvdimm
  Cc: Xiao Guangrong, Peter Zijlstra, Greg Kroah-Hartman, x86, david,
	Adrian Hunter, Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo, linux-kernel,
	Alexander Shishkin, Ingo Molnar, Andy Lutomirski, Josh Poimboeuf,
	Paolo Bonzini, Thomas Gleixner, Borislav Petkov, H. Peter Anvin,
	hch

Platforms supporting NVDIMMs are now required to provide persistence
guarantees once pmem stores are accepted by the memory subsystem.  This
is usually achieved by a platform-level feature known as ADR
(Asynchronous DRAM Refresh) that flushes any memory subsystem write
pending queues on power loss/shutdown.

The 'pcommit' instruction (which has not shipped on any product) is no
longer needed and is deprecated.

---

Dan Williams (13):
      driver core, libnvdimm: disable manual unbind of dimms while region active
      nfit: always associate flush hints
      libnvdimm: introduce nvdimm_flush()
      libnvdimm, nfit: move flush hint mapping to dimm driver
      tools/testing/nvdimm: simulate multiple flush hints per-dimm
      libnvdimm: cycle flush hints per-cpu
      libnvdimm, pmem: use REQ_FUA, REQ_FLUSH for nvdimm_flush()
      fs/dax: remove wmb_pmem()
      libnvdimm, pmem: use nvdimm_flush() for namespace I/O writes
      pmem: kill wmb_pmem()
      Revert "KVM: x86: add pcommit support"
      x86/insn: remove pcommit
      pmem: kill __pmem address space


 Documentation/filesystems/Locking                  |    2 
 arch/powerpc/sysdev/axonram.c                      |    4 -
 arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeatures.h                 |    1 
 arch/x86/include/asm/pmem.h                        |   77 +++----------
 arch/x86/include/asm/special_insns.h               |   46 --------
 arch/x86/include/asm/vmx.h                         |    1 
 arch/x86/include/uapi/asm/vmx.h                    |    4 -
 arch/x86/kvm/cpuid.c                               |    2 
 arch/x86/kvm/cpuid.h                               |    8 -
 arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c                                 |   32 +----
 arch/x86/lib/x86-opcode-map.txt                    |    2 
 drivers/acpi/nfit.c                                |  106 +++++++++++-------
 drivers/acpi/nfit.h                                |    3 -
 drivers/base/base.h                                |    1 
 drivers/base/bus.c                                 |   12 ++
 drivers/base/core.c                                |    1 
 drivers/base/dd.c                                  |    2 
 drivers/block/brd.c                                |    4 -
 drivers/nvdimm/claim.c                             |    2 
 drivers/nvdimm/dimm.c                              |    7 +
 drivers/nvdimm/dimm_devs.c                         |   27 ++++-
 drivers/nvdimm/namespace_devs.c                    |    1 
 drivers/nvdimm/nd-core.h                           |    1 
 drivers/nvdimm/nd.h                                |   15 +++
 drivers/nvdimm/pmem.c                              |   44 +++++---
 drivers/nvdimm/region_devs.c                       |   74 ++++++++++++-
 drivers/s390/block/dcssblk.c                       |    6 +
 fs/dax.c                                           |   13 +-
 include/linux/blkdev.h                             |    6 +
 include/linux/compiler.h                           |    2 
 include/linux/device.h                             |   20 +++
 include/linux/libnvdimm.h                          |   10 ++
 include/linux/nd.h                                 |    2 
 include/linux/pmem.h                               |  117 ++++----------------
 scripts/checkpatch.pl                              |    1 
 tools/objtool/arch/x86/insn/x86-opcode-map.txt     |    2 
 tools/perf/arch/x86/tests/insn-x86-dat-32.c        |    2 
 tools/perf/arch/x86/tests/insn-x86-dat-64.c        |    2 
 tools/perf/arch/x86/tests/insn-x86-dat-src.c       |    4 -
 .../perf/util/intel-pt-decoder/x86-opcode-map.txt  |    2 
 tools/testing/nvdimm/test/nfit.c                   |   55 ++++++---
 41 files changed, 357 insertions(+), 366 deletions(-)
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2016-06-04 20:52 [PATCH 00/13] deprecate pcommit Dan Williams
2016-06-04 20:52 ` Dan Williams
2016-06-04 20:52 ` [PATCH 01/13] driver core, libnvdimm: disable manual unbind of dimms while region active Dan Williams
2016-06-04 20:52   ` Dan Williams
2016-06-04 21:10   ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2016-06-04 21:10     ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2016-06-04 21:39     ` Dan Williams
2016-06-04 21:39       ` Dan Williams
2016-06-04 21:45       ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2016-06-04 21:45         ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2016-06-04 21:48         ` Dan Williams
2016-06-04 21:48           ` Dan Williams
2016-06-04 21:50   ` kbuild test robot
2016-06-04 21:50     ` kbuild test robot
2016-06-06 19:25   ` Linda Knippers
2016-06-06 19:25     ` Linda Knippers
2016-06-06 19:31     ` Dan Williams
2016-06-06 19:31       ` Dan Williams
2016-06-06 19:36       ` Dan Williams
2016-06-06 19:36         ` Dan Williams
2016-06-06 19:36       ` Linda Knippers
2016-06-06 19:36         ` Linda Knippers
2016-06-06 19:46         ` Dan Williams
2016-06-06 19:46           ` Dan Williams
2016-06-06 20:20           ` Linda Knippers
2016-06-06 20:20             ` Linda Knippers
2016-06-06 20:36             ` Dan Williams
2016-06-06 20:36               ` Dan Williams
2016-06-06 21:15               ` Linda Knippers
2016-06-06 21:15                 ` Linda Knippers
2016-06-04 20:52 ` [PATCH 02/13] nfit: always associate flush hints Dan Williams
2016-06-04 20:52   ` Dan Williams
2016-06-04 20:52 ` [PATCH 03/13] libnvdimm: introduce nvdimm_flush() Dan Williams
2016-06-04 20:52   ` Dan Williams
2016-06-06 17:45   ` Jeff Moyer
2016-06-04 20:52 ` [PATCH 04/13] libnvdimm, nfit: move flush hint mapping to dimm driver Dan Williams
2016-06-04 20:52   ` Dan Williams
2016-06-04 21:29   ` kbuild test robot
2016-06-04 21:29     ` kbuild test robot
2016-06-04 21:40   ` kbuild test robot
2016-06-04 21:40     ` kbuild test robot
2016-06-04 21:49   ` kbuild test robot
2016-06-04 21:49     ` kbuild test robot
2016-06-07 18:11   ` Kani, Toshimitsu
2016-06-07 18:11     ` Kani, Toshimitsu
2016-06-07 18:15     ` Dan Williams
2016-06-07 18:15       ` Dan Williams
2016-06-04 20:52 ` [PATCH 05/13] tools/testing/nvdimm: simulate multiple flush hints per-dimm Dan Williams
2016-06-04 20:52   ` Dan Williams
2016-06-04 20:53 ` [PATCH 06/13] libnvdimm: cycle flush hints per-cpu Dan Williams
2016-06-04 20:53   ` Dan Williams
2016-06-04 20:53 ` [PATCH 07/13] libnvdimm, pmem: use REQ_FUA, REQ_FLUSH for nvdimm_flush() Dan Williams
2016-06-04 20:53   ` Dan Williams
2016-06-04 20:53 ` [PATCH 08/13] fs/dax: remove wmb_pmem() Dan Williams
2016-06-04 20:53   ` Dan Williams
2016-06-04 20:53 ` [PATCH 09/13] libnvdimm, pmem: use nvdimm_flush() for namespace I/O writes Dan Williams
2016-06-04 20:53   ` Dan Williams
2016-06-04 20:53 ` [PATCH 10/13] pmem: kill wmb_pmem() Dan Williams
2016-06-04 20:53   ` Dan Williams
2016-06-04 20:53 ` [PATCH 11/13] Revert "KVM: x86: add pcommit support" Dan Williams
2016-06-04 20:53   ` Dan Williams
2016-06-06 15:14   ` Paolo Bonzini
2016-06-06 16:14     ` Dan Williams
2016-06-04 20:53 ` [PATCH 12/13] x86/insn: remove pcommit Dan Williams
2016-06-04 20:53   ` Dan Williams
2016-06-04 20:53 ` [PATCH 13/13] pmem: kill __pmem address space Dan Williams
2016-06-04 20:53   ` Dan Williams
2016-06-04 22:18   ` kbuild test robot
2016-06-04 22:18     ` kbuild test robot
2016-06-05 17:41 ` [PATCH 00/13] deprecate pcommit Andy Lutomirski
2016-06-05 17:41   ` Andy Lutomirski
2016-06-05 18:48   ` Rudoff, Andy
2016-06-05 18:48     ` Rudoff, Andy

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