From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.8 required=3.0 tests=HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS, MAILING_LIST_MULTI,SPF_PASS,URIBL_BLOCKED,USER_AGENT_GIT autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 Received: from mail.kernel.org (mail.kernel.org [198.145.29.99]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3F808C6778C for ; Sun, 1 Jul 2018 16:39:06 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [209.132.180.67]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EC1B7242DE for ; Sun, 1 Jul 2018 16:39:05 +0000 (UTC) DMARC-Filter: OpenDMARC Filter v1.3.2 mail.kernel.org EC1B7242DE Authentication-Results: mail.kernel.org; dmarc=none (p=none dis=none) header.from=linuxfoundation.org Authentication-Results: mail.kernel.org; spf=none smtp.mailfrom=linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1031683AbeGAQjE (ORCPT ); Sun, 1 Jul 2018 12:39:04 -0400 Received: from mail.linuxfoundation.org ([140.211.169.12]:36808 "EHLO mail.linuxfoundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1031375AbeGAQi6 (ORCPT ); Sun, 1 Jul 2018 12:38:58 -0400 Received: from localhost (LFbn-1-12247-202.w90-92.abo.wanadoo.fr [90.92.61.202]) by mail.linuxfoundation.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id ADD8C92B; Sun, 1 Jul 2018 16:38:57 +0000 (UTC) From: Greg Kroah-Hartman To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman , stable@vger.kernel.org, Ross Zwisler , Dan Williams Subject: [PATCH 4.17 054/220] libnvdimm, pmem: Do not flush power-fail protected CPU caches Date: Sun, 1 Jul 2018 18:21:18 +0200 Message-Id: <20180701160910.596750459@linuxfoundation.org> X-Mailer: git-send-email 2.18.0 In-Reply-To: <20180701160908.272447118@linuxfoundation.org> References: <20180701160908.272447118@linuxfoundation.org> User-Agent: quilt/0.65 X-stable: review MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 4.17-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ From: Ross Zwisler commit 546eb0317cfa3c4f9e1d9ab892766d65d7f78fad upstream. This commit: 5fdf8e5ba566 ("libnvdimm: re-enable deep flush for pmem devices via fsync()") intended to make sure that deep flush was always available even on platforms which support a power-fail protected CPU cache. An unintended side effect of this change was that we also lost the ability to skip flushing CPU caches on those power-fail protected CPU cache. Fix this by skipping the low level cache flushing in dax_flush() if we have CPU caches which are power-fail protected. The user can still override this behavior by manually setting the write_cache state of a namespace. See libndctl's ndctl_namespace_write_cache_is_enabled(), ndctl_namespace_enable_write_cache() and ndctl_namespace_disable_write_cache() functions. Cc: Fixes: 5fdf8e5ba566 ("libnvdimm: re-enable deep flush for pmem devices via fsync()") Signed-off-by: Ross Zwisler Signed-off-by: Dan Williams Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- drivers/nvdimm/region_devs.c | 3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/drivers/nvdimm/region_devs.c +++ b/drivers/nvdimm/region_devs.c @@ -1132,7 +1132,8 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(nvdimm_has_flush); int nvdimm_has_cache(struct nd_region *nd_region) { - return is_nd_pmem(&nd_region->dev); + return is_nd_pmem(&nd_region->dev) && + !test_bit(ND_REGION_PERSIST_CACHE, &nd_region->flags); } EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(nvdimm_has_cache);