From: tip-bot for Toshi Kani <tipbot@zytor.com>
To: linux-tip-commits@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, torvalds@linux-foundation.org,
mingo@kernel.org, peterz@infradead.org, tglx@linutronix.de,
dan.j.williams@intel.com, akpm@linux-foundation.org,
luto@amacapital.net, toshi.kani@hp.com, hpa@zytor.com,
bp@suse.de, mcgrof@suse.com, linux-mm@kvack.org
Subject: [tip:x86/mm] drivers/block/pmem: Map NVDIMM in Write-Through mode
Date: Sun, 7 Jun 2015 10:43:16 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <tip-957561ec0fa8a701f60ca6a0f40cc46f5c554920@git.kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1433436928-31903-14-git-send-email-bp@alien8.de>
Commit-ID: 957561ec0fa8a701f60ca6a0f40cc46f5c554920
Gitweb: http://git.kernel.org/tip/957561ec0fa8a701f60ca6a0f40cc46f5c554920
Author: Toshi Kani <toshi.kani@hp.com>
AuthorDate: Thu, 4 Jun 2015 18:55:21 +0200
Committer: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
CommitDate: Sun, 7 Jun 2015 15:29:01 +0200
drivers/block/pmem: Map NVDIMM in Write-Through mode
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>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Acked-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Cc: Elliott@hp.com
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Luis R. Rodriguez <mcgrof@suse.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: arnd@arndb.de
Cc: hch@lst.de
Cc: hmh@hmh.eng.br
Cc: jgross@suse.com
Cc: konrad.wilk@oracle.com
Cc: linux-mm <linux-mm@kvack.org>
Cc: linux-nvdimm@lists.01.org
Cc: stefan.bader@canonical.com
Cc: yigal@plexistor.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1433436928-31903-14-git-send-email-bp@alien8.de
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
---
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 eabf4a8..095dfaa 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;
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2015-06-04 16:55 ` [PATCH 04/20] x86/mm/pat: Use 7th PAT MSR slot for Write-Through PAT type Borislav Petkov
2015-06-04 16:55 ` [PATCH 05/20] x86/mm/pat: Change reserve_memtype() for Write-Through type Borislav Petkov
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2015-06-04 16:55 ` [PATCH 07/20] x86/mm, asm-generic: Add ioremap_wt() for creating Write-Through mappings Borislav Petkov
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2015-06-04 16:55 ` [PATCH 08/20] arch/*/io.h: Add ioremap_wt() to all architectures Borislav Petkov
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2015-06-04 16:55 ` [PATCH 09/20] video/fbdev, asm/io.h: Remove ioremap_writethrough() Borislav Petkov
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2015-06-04 16:55 ` [PATCH 10/20] x86/mm/pat: Add pgprot_writethrough() Borislav Petkov
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2015-06-04 16:55 ` [PATCH 11/20] x86/mm/pat: Extend set_page_memtype() to support Write-Through type Borislav Petkov
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2015-06-04 16:55 ` [PATCH 13/20] drivers/block/pmem: Map NVDIMM in Write-Through mode Borislav Petkov
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