linux/drivers/nvdimm
Dan Williams 3c1cebff23 dax, pmem: introduce an optional 'flush' dax_operation
Filesystem-DAX flushes caches whenever it writes to the address returned
through dax_direct_access() and when writing back dirty radix entries.
That flushing is only required in the pmem case, so add a dax operation
to allow pmem to take this extra action, but skip it for other dax
capable devices that do not provide a flush routine.

An example for this differentiation might be a volatile ram disk where
there is no expectation of persistence. In fact the pmem driver itself might
front such an address range specified by the NFIT. So, this "no flush"
property might be something passed down by the bus / libnvdimm.

Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <mawilcox@microsoft.com>
Cc: Ross Zwisler <ross.zwisler@linux.intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
2017-06-15 14:34:59 -07:00
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blk.c libnvdimm: add an atomic vs process context flag to rw_bytes 2017-05-10 21:46:22 -07:00
btt_devs.c libnvdimm: add an atomic vs process context flag to rw_bytes 2017-05-10 21:46:22 -07:00
btt.c libnvdimm, btt: ensure that initializing metadata clears poison 2017-05-10 21:46:22 -07:00
btt.h libnvdimm, btt: consolidate arena validation 2015-08-14 13:43:04 -04:00
bus.c libnvdimm: rework region badblocks clearing 2017-04-29 15:24:03 -07:00
claim.c x86, uaccess: introduce copy_from_iter_flushcache for pmem / cache-bypass operations 2017-06-09 09:09:56 -07:00
core.c libnvdimm: fix clear poison locking with spinlock and GFP_NOWAIT allocation 2017-04-13 14:23:51 -07:00
dax_devs.c libnvdimm: fix nvdimm_bus_lock() vs device_lock() ordering 2017-05-01 08:29:37 -07:00
dimm_devs.c treewide: use kv[mz]alloc* rather than opencoded variants 2017-05-08 17:15:13 -07:00
dimm.c libnvdimm: handle locked label storage areas 2017-05-04 15:41:39 -07:00
e820.c libnvdimm, e820: use module_platform_driver 2016-12-05 08:52:21 -08:00
Kconfig pmem: add dax_operations support 2017-04-19 15:14:35 -07:00
label.c nvdimm: use the right length of "pmem" 2016-11-11 20:37:42 -08:00
label.h libnvdimm: write blk label set 2015-06-24 21:24:10 -04:00
Makefile libnvdimm, dax: introduce device-dax infrastructure 2016-05-09 15:35:42 -07:00
namespace_devs.c libnvdimm: handle locked label storage areas 2017-05-04 15:41:39 -07:00
nd-core.h libnvdimm: fix clear poison locking with spinlock and GFP_NOWAIT allocation 2017-04-13 14:23:51 -07:00
nd.h libnvdimm: add an atomic vs process context flag to rw_bytes 2017-05-10 21:46:22 -07:00
pfn_devs.c libnvdimm: add an atomic vs process context flag to rw_bytes 2017-05-10 21:46:22 -07:00
pfn.h libnvdimm, dax: autodetect support 2016-05-20 22:02:57 -07:00
pmem.c dax, pmem: introduce an optional 'flush' dax_operation 2017-06-15 14:34:59 -07:00
pmem.h pmem: add dax_operations support 2017-04-19 15:14:35 -07:00
region_devs.c x86, uaccess: introduce copy_from_iter_flushcache for pmem / cache-bypass operations 2017-06-09 09:09:56 -07:00
region.c libnvdimm: rework region badblocks clearing 2017-04-29 15:24:03 -07:00