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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
To: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Cc: linux-nvdimm@lists.01.org, Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>,
	dm-devel@redhat.com, Toshi Kani <toshi.kani@hpe.com>,
	Matthew Wilcox <mawilcox@microsoft.com>,
	x86@kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, hch@lst.de,
	Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>,
	viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk, "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
	linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	Ross Zwisler <ross.zwisler@linux.intel.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 01/14] x86, uaccess: introduce copy_from_iter_flushcache for pmem / cache-bypass operations
Date: Sun, 18 Jun 2017 10:28:41 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170618082841.GA26456@lst.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <149703983098.20620.14791162611225792317.stgit@dwillia2-desk3.amr.corp.intel.com>

On Fri, Jun 09, 2017 at 01:23:51PM -0700, Dan Williams wrote:
> Implement a __copy_from_user_inatomic_flushcache, memcpy_page_flushcache, and
> memcpy_flushcache, that guarantee that the destination buffer is not dirty in
> the cpu cache on completion. The new copy_from_iter_flushcache and sub-routines

Wouldn't writethrough be a better name?

> will be used to replace the "pmem api" (include/linux/pmem.h +
> arch/x86/include/asm/pmem.h). The availability of copy_from_iter_flushcache()
> and memcpy_flushcache() are gated by the CONFIG_ARCH_HAS_UACCESS_FLUSHCACHE
> config symbol, and fallback to copy_from_iter_nocache() and plain memcpy()
> otherwise.

What is UACCESS about memcpy_flushcache?

  reply	other threads:[~2017-06-18  8:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 42+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-06-09 20:23 [PATCH v3 00/14] pmem: stop abusing __copy_user_nocache(), and other reworks Dan Williams
2017-06-09 20:23 ` [PATCH v3 01/14] x86, uaccess: introduce copy_from_iter_flushcache for pmem / cache-bypass operations Dan Williams
2017-06-18  8:28   ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2017-06-19  2:02     ` Dan Williams
2017-06-09 20:23 ` [PATCH v3 02/14] dm: add ->copy_from_iter() dax operation support Dan Williams
2017-06-15  0:46   ` Kani, Toshimitsu
2017-06-15  1:21     ` Kani, Toshimitsu
2017-06-18  8:37   ` Christoph Hellwig
2017-06-19  2:04     ` Dan Williams
2017-06-09 20:24 ` [PATCH v3 03/14] filesystem-dax: convert to dax_copy_from_iter() Dan Williams
2017-06-14 10:58   ` Jan Kara
2017-06-09 20:24 ` [PATCH v3 04/14] dax, pmem: introduce an optional 'flush' dax_operation Dan Williams
2017-06-14 10:57   ` Jan Kara
2017-06-09 20:24 ` [PATCH v3 05/14] dm: add ->flush() dax operation support Dan Williams
2017-06-15  1:44   ` Kani, Toshimitsu
2017-06-09 20:24 ` [PATCH v3 06/14] filesystem-dax: convert to dax_flush() Dan Williams
2017-06-14 10:56   ` Jan Kara
2017-06-09 20:24 ` [PATCH v3 07/14] x86, dax: replace clear_pmem() with open coded memset + dax_ops->flush Dan Williams
2017-06-14 10:55   ` Jan Kara
2017-06-09 20:24 ` [PATCH v3 08/14] x86, dax, libnvdimm: move wb_cache_pmem() to libnvdimm Dan Williams
2017-06-12  0:29   ` [PATCH v4 " Dan Williams
2017-06-14 10:54   ` [PATCH v3 " Jan Kara
2017-06-14 16:49     ` Dan Williams
2017-06-15  8:11       ` Jan Kara
2017-06-18  8:40   ` Christoph Hellwig
2017-06-19  2:06     ` Dan Williams
2017-06-09 20:24 ` [PATCH v3 09/14] x86, libnvdimm, pmem: move arch_invalidate_pmem() " Dan Williams
2017-06-14 10:49   ` Jan Kara
2017-06-09 20:24 ` [PATCH v3 10/14] pmem: remove global pmem api Dan Williams
2017-06-14 10:48   ` Jan Kara
2017-06-09 20:24 ` [PATCH v3 11/14] libnvdimm, pmem: fix persistence warning Dan Williams
2017-06-09 20:24 ` [PATCH v3 12/14] libnvdimm, nfit: enable support for volatile ranges Dan Williams
2017-06-09 20:24 ` [PATCH v3 13/14] filesystem-dax: gate calls to dax_flush() on QUEUE_FLAG_WC Dan Williams
2017-06-14 10:46   ` Jan Kara
2017-06-14 16:49     ` Dan Williams
2017-06-14 23:11   ` [PATCH v4 13/14] libnvdimm, pmem: gate cache management on QUEUE_FLAG_WC in pmem_dax_flush() Dan Williams
2017-06-15  8:09     ` Jan Kara
2017-06-18  8:45   ` [PATCH v3 13/14] filesystem-dax: gate calls to dax_flush() on QUEUE_FLAG_WC Christoph Hellwig
2017-06-19  2:07     ` Dan Williams
2017-06-09 20:25 ` [PATCH v3 14/14] libnvdimm, pmem: disable dax flushing when pmem is fronting a volatile region Dan Williams
2017-06-09 23:21   ` Dan Williams
2017-06-10 17:54   ` [PATCH v4 " Dan Williams

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