From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from ozlabs.org (bilbo.ozlabs.org [103.22.144.67]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ADH-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by lists.ozlabs.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 3yblFz4FnNzDqpl for ; Tue, 14 Nov 2017 22:12:07 +1100 (AEDT) In-Reply-To: <20171019071355.15324-1-oohall@gmail.com> To: Oliver O'Halloran , linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org From: Michael Ellerman Cc: Oliver O'Halloran Subject: Re: [1/2] powerpc/lib: Implement PMEM API Message-Id: <3yblFz2kZ5z9t2W@ozlabs.org> Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2017 22:12:07 +1100 (AEDT) List-Id: Linux on PowerPC Developers Mail List List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , On Thu, 2017-10-19 at 07:13:54 UTC, Oliver O'Halloran wrote: > Implement the architecture specific cache maintence functions that make > up the "PMEM API". Currently the writeback and invalidate functions > are the same since the function of the DCBST (data cache block store) > instruction is typically interpreted as "writeback to the point of > coherency" rather than to memory. As a result implementing the API > requires a full cache flush rather than just a cache write back. This > will probably change in the not-too-distant future. > > Signed-off-by: Oliver O'Halloran Series applied to powerpc next, thanks. https://git.kernel.org/powerpc/c/32ce3862af3c42a3890e99846a8d1a cheers