From: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
To: Vaibhav Jain <vaibhav@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: linux-nvdimm <linux-nvdimm@lists.01.org>,
Aneesh Kumar K <aneesh.kumar@linux.ibm.com>,
Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>,
Shivaprasad G Bhat <sbhat@linux.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] libnvdimm/region: Update nvdimm_has_flush() to handle ND_REGION_ASYNC
Date: Fri, 9 Apr 2021 21:46:45 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAPcyv4io=1xkqNYbMxrrAgY_TzD1_W0cLQvirk1EuurjA_+h=A@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20210402092555.208590-1-vaibhav@linux.ibm.com>
On Fri, Apr 2, 2021 at 2:26 AM Vaibhav Jain <vaibhav@linux.ibm.com> wrote:
>
> In case a platform doesn't provide explicit flush-hints but provides an
> explicit flush callback via ND_REGION_ASYNC region flag, then
> nvdimm_has_flush() still returns '0' indicating that writes do not
> require flushing. This happens on PPC64 with patch at [1] applied,
> where 'deep_flush' of a region was denied even though an explicit
> flush function was provided.
>
> Fix this by adding a condition to nvdimm_has_flush() to test for the
> ND_REGION_ASYNC flag on the region and see if a 'region->flush'
> callback is assigned.
Looks good.
>
> References:
> [1] "powerpc/papr_scm: Implement support for H_SCM_FLUSH hcall"
> https://lore.kernel.org/linux-nvdimm/161703936121.36.7260632399 582101498.stgit@e1fbed493c87
Looks like a typo happened in that link, I can fix that up. I'll also
change this to the canonical "Link:" tag for references.
>
> Reported-by: Shivaprasad G Bhat <sbhat@linux.ibm.com>
> Signed-off-by: Vaibhav Jain <vaibhav@linux.ibm.com>
> ---
> drivers/nvdimm/region_devs.c | 9 +++++++--
> 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/nvdimm/region_devs.c b/drivers/nvdimm/region_devs.c
> index ef23119db574..e05cc9f8a9fd 100644
> --- a/drivers/nvdimm/region_devs.c
> +++ b/drivers/nvdimm/region_devs.c
> @@ -1239,6 +1239,11 @@ int nvdimm_has_flush(struct nd_region *nd_region)
> || !IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_ARCH_HAS_PMEM_API))
> return -ENXIO;
>
> + /* Test if an explicit flush function is defined */
> + if (test_bit(ND_REGION_ASYNC, &nd_region->flags) && nd_region->flush)
> + return 1;
> +
> + /* Test if any flush hints for the region are available */
> for (i = 0; i < nd_region->ndr_mappings; i++) {
> struct nd_mapping *nd_mapping = &nd_region->mapping[i];
> struct nvdimm *nvdimm = nd_mapping->nvdimm;
> @@ -1249,8 +1254,8 @@ int nvdimm_has_flush(struct nd_region *nd_region)
> }
>
> /*
> - * The platform defines dimm devices without hints, assume
> - * platform persistence mechanism like ADR
> + * The platform defines dimm devices without hints nor explicit flush,
> + * assume platform persistence mechanism like ADR
> */
> return 0;
> }
> --
> 2.30.2
>
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Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-04-02 9:25 [PATCH] libnvdimm/region: Update nvdimm_has_flush() to handle ND_REGION_ASYNC Vaibhav Jain
2021-04-05 11:31 ` Aneesh Kumar K.V
2021-04-10 4:51 ` Dan Williams
2021-04-10 4:46 ` Dan Williams [this message]
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