[PATCH 13/20] drivers/block/pmem: Map NVDIMM in Write-Through mode

Borislav Petkov
2015-06-04T17:02:45Z

From: Toshi Kani <toshi.kani@hp.com>

The pmem driver maps NVDIMM uncacheable so that we don't lose data which
hasn't reached non-volatile storage in the case of a crash. Change this
to Write-Through mode which provides uncached writes but cached reads,
thus improving read performance.

Signed-off-by: Toshi Kani <toshi.kani@hp.com>
Acked-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Cc: arnd@arndb.de
Cc: Elliott@hp.com
Cc: hch@lst.de
Cc: hmh@hmh.eng.br
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: jgross@suse.com
Cc: konrad.wilk@oracle.com
Cc: linux-mm <linux-mm@kvack.org>
Cc: linux-nvdimm@lists.01.org
Cc: Luis R. Rodriguez <mcgrof@suse.com>
Cc: stefan.bader@canonical.com
Cc: x86-ml <x86@kernel.org>
Cc: yigal@plexistor.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1432739944-22633-13-git-send-email-toshi.kani@hp.com
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
---
drivers/block/pmem.c | 4 ++--
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/block/pmem.c b/drivers/block/pmem.c
index eabf4a8d0085..095dfaadcaa5 100644
--- a/drivers/block/pmem.c
+++ b/drivers/block/pmem.c
@@ -139,11 +139,11 @@ static struct pmem_device *pmem_alloc(struct device *dev, struct resource *res)
}

/*
- * Map the memory as non-cachable, as we can't write back the contents
+ * Map the memory as write-through, as we can't write back the contents
* of the CPU caches in case of a crash.
*/
err = -ENOMEM;
- pmem->virt_addr = ioremap_nocache(pmem->phys_addr, pmem->size);
+ pmem->virt_addr = ioremap_wt(pmem->phys_addr, pmem->size);
if (!pmem->virt_addr)
goto out_release_region;

--
2.3.5