From: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
To: Ross Zwisler <ross.zwisler@linux.intel.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
H Peter Anvin <h.peter.anvin@intel.com>,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 1/2] x86: Add support for the pcommit instruction
Date: Wed, 28 Jan 2015 11:58:18 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150128105818.GE12929@pd.tnic> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1422377631-8986-2-git-send-email-ross.zwisler@linux.intel.com>
On Tue, Jan 27, 2015 at 09:53:50AM -0700, Ross Zwisler wrote:
> Add support for the new pcommit (persistent commit) instruction. This
> instruction was announced in the document "Intel Architecture
> Instruction Set Extensions Programming Reference" with reference number
> 319433-022.
>
> https://software.intel.com/sites/default/files/managed/0d/53/319433-022.pdf
>
> The pcommit instruction ensures that data that has been flushed from the
> processor's cache hierarchy with clwb, clflushopt or clflush is accepted to
> memory and is durable on the DIMM. The primary use case for this is persistent
> memory.
>
> This function shows how to properly use clwb/clflushopt/clflush and
> pcommit with appropriate fencing:
...
> This is still correct, but now you've got two fences separated by only a
> nop. With the commit and the fence together in pcommit_sfence() you
> avoid the final unneeded fence.
>
> Signed-off-by: Ross Zwisler <ross.zwisler@linux.intel.com>
> Cc: H Peter Anvin <h.peter.anvin@intel.com>
> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
> Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Acked-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
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Regards/Gruss,
Boris.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-01-28 20:25 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-01-27 16:53 [PATCH v3 0/2] add support for new persistent memory instructions Ross Zwisler
2015-01-27 16:53 ` [PATCH v3 1/2] x86: Add support for the pcommit instruction Ross Zwisler
2015-01-28 10:58 ` Borislav Petkov [this message]
2015-01-28 17:10 ` Elliott, Robert (Server Storage)
2015-01-28 17:21 ` Borislav Petkov
2015-01-28 17:27 ` Ross Zwisler
2015-02-11 22:24 ` H. Peter Anvin
2015-02-19 0:29 ` [tip:x86/asm] " tip-bot for Ross Zwisler
2015-02-19 1:15 ` Ingo Molnar
2015-02-19 17:21 ` Ross Zwisler
2015-02-19 17:33 ` Borislav Petkov
2015-02-19 17:41 ` Ross Zwisler
2015-01-27 16:53 ` [PATCH v3 2/2] x86: Add support for the clwb instruction Ross Zwisler
2015-01-28 10:58 ` Borislav Petkov
2015-02-11 22:25 ` H. Peter Anvin
2015-02-19 0:29 ` [tip:x86/asm] " tip-bot for Ross Zwisler
2015-04-02 20:31 ` Ross Zwisler
2015-04-03 5:04 ` Ingo Molnar
2015-04-03 5:10 ` [tip:x86/asm] x86/asm: Add support for the CLWB instruction tip-bot for Ross Zwisler
2015-02-05 16:24 ` [PATCH v3 0/2] add support for new persistent memory instructions Ross Zwisler
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