[PATCH v6 4/8] libnvdimm/nvdimm/flush: Allow architecture to override the flush barrier

Aneesh Kumar K.V aneesh.kumar at linux.ibm.com
Mon Jun 29 23:57:18 AEST 2020


Architectures like ppc64 provide persistent memory specific barriers
that will ensure that all stores for which the modifications are
written to persistent storage by preceding dcbfps and dcbstps
instructions have updated persistent storage before any data
access or data transfer caused by subsequent instructions is initiated.
This is in addition to the ordering done by wmb()

Update nvdimm core such that architecture can use barriers other than
wmb to ensure all previous writes are architecturally visible for
the platform buffer flush.

Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar at linux.ibm.com>
---
 drivers/md/dm-writecache.c       | 2 +-
 drivers/nvdimm/region_devs.c     | 8 ++++----
 include/asm-generic/cacheflush.h | 4 ++++
 3 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/md/dm-writecache.c b/drivers/md/dm-writecache.c
index 74f3c506f084..8c6b6dce64e2 100644
--- a/drivers/md/dm-writecache.c
+++ b/drivers/md/dm-writecache.c
@@ -536,7 +536,7 @@ static void ssd_commit_superblock(struct dm_writecache *wc)
 static void writecache_commit_flushed(struct dm_writecache *wc, bool wait_for_ios)
 {
 	if (WC_MODE_PMEM(wc))
-		wmb();
+		arch_pmem_flush_barrier();
 	else
 		ssd_commit_flushed(wc, wait_for_ios);
 }
diff --git a/drivers/nvdimm/region_devs.c b/drivers/nvdimm/region_devs.c
index 4502f9c4708d..b308ad09b63d 100644
--- a/drivers/nvdimm/region_devs.c
+++ b/drivers/nvdimm/region_devs.c
@@ -1206,13 +1206,13 @@ int generic_nvdimm_flush(struct nd_region *nd_region)
 	idx = this_cpu_add_return(flush_idx, hash_32(current->pid + idx, 8));
 
 	/*
-	 * The first wmb() is needed to 'sfence' all previous writes
-	 * such that they are architecturally visible for the platform
-	 * buffer flush.  Note that we've already arranged for pmem
+	 * The first arch_pmem_flush_barrier() is needed to 'sfence' all
+	 * previous writes such that they are architecturally visible for
+	 * the platform buffer flush. Note that we've already arranged for pmem
 	 * writes to avoid the cache via memcpy_flushcache().  The final
 	 * wmb() ensures ordering for the NVDIMM flush write.
 	 */
-	wmb();
+	arch_pmem_flush_barrier();
 	for (i = 0; i < nd_region->ndr_mappings; i++)
 		if (ndrd_get_flush_wpq(ndrd, i, 0))
 			writeq(1, ndrd_get_flush_wpq(ndrd, i, idx));
diff --git a/include/asm-generic/cacheflush.h b/include/asm-generic/cacheflush.h
index 907fa5d16494..e30a9aa950dc 100644
--- a/include/asm-generic/cacheflush.h
+++ b/include/asm-generic/cacheflush.h
@@ -110,4 +110,8 @@ static inline void flush_cache_vunmap(unsigned long start, unsigned long end)
 	memcpy(dst, src, len)
 #endif
 
+#ifndef arch_pmem_flush_barrier
+#define arch_pmem_flush_barrier() wmb()
+#endif
+
 #endif /* _ASM_GENERIC_CACHEFLUSH_H */
-- 
2.26.2



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