[RESEND-PATCH v2] powerpc/papr_scm: Add support for reporting dirty-shutdown-count

Michael Ellerman patch-notifications at ellerman.id.au
Sat Jun 26 20:37:22 AEST 2021


On Thu, 24 Jun 2021 13:36:21 +0530, Vaibhav Jain wrote:
> Persistent memory devices like NVDIMMs can loose cached writes in case
> something prevents flush on power-fail. Such situations are termed as
> dirty shutdown and are exposed to applications as
> last-shutdown-state (LSS) flag and a dirty-shutdown-counter(DSC) as
> described at [1]. The latter being useful in conditions where multiple
> applications want to detect a dirty shutdown event without racing with
> one another.
> 
> [...]

Applied to powerpc/next.

[1/1] powerpc/papr_scm: Add support for reporting dirty-shutdown-count
      https://git.kernel.org/powerpc/c/de21e1377c4fe65bfd8d31e446482c1bc2232997

cheers


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