linux/arch/x86
Dan Williams 96601adb74 x86, pmem: clarify that ARCH_HAS_PMEM_API implies PMEM mapped WB
Given that a write-back (WB) mapping plus non-temporal stores is
expected to be the most efficient way to access PMEM, update the
definition of ARCH_HAS_PMEM_API to imply arch support for
WB-mapped-PMEM.  This is needed as a pre-requisite for adding PMEM to
the direct map and mapping it with struct page.

The above clarification for X86_64 means that memcpy_to_pmem() is
permitted to use the non-temporal arch_memcpy_to_pmem() rather than
needlessly fall back to default_memcpy_to_pmem() when the pcommit
instruction is not available.  When arch_memcpy_to_pmem() is not
guaranteed to flush writes out of cache, i.e. on older X86_32
implementations where non-temporal stores may just dirty cache,
ARCH_HAS_PMEM_API is simply disabled.

The default fall back for persistent memory handling remains.  Namely,
map it with the WT (write-through) cache-type and hope for the best.

arch_has_pmem_api() is updated to only indicate whether the arch
provides the proper helpers to meet the minimum "writes are visible
outside the cache hierarchy after memcpy_to_pmem() + wmb_pmem()".  Code
that cares whether wmb_pmem() actually flushes writes to pmem must now
call arch_has_wmb_pmem() directly.

Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Reviewed-by: Ross Zwisler <ross.zwisler@linux.intel.com>
[hch: set ARCH_HAS_PMEM_API=n on x86_32]
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
[toshi: x86_32 compile fixes]
Signed-off-by: Toshi Kani <toshi.kani@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
2015-08-27 19:40:59 -04:00
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boot The libnvdimm sub-system introduces, in addition to the libnvdimm-core, 2015-06-29 10:34:42 -07:00
configs kconfig: add xenconfig defconfig helper 2015-06-16 11:04:29 +01:00
crypto crypto: aesni - fix failing setkey for rfc4106-gcm-aesni 2015-06-29 16:06:30 +08:00
entry x86/asm/entry/32: Revert 'Do not use R9 in SYSCALL32' commit 2015-07-24 16:36:00 +02:00
ia32 Merge branch 'x86-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2015-06-22 17:59:09 -07:00
include x86, pmem: clarify that ARCH_HAS_PMEM_API implies PMEM mapped WB 2015-08-27 19:40:59 -04:00
kernel libnvdimm, e820: make CONFIG_X86_PMEM_LEGACY a tristate option 2015-08-19 00:34:34 -04:00
kvm KVM: x86: rename quirk constants to KVM_X86_QUIRK_* 2015-07-23 08:24:42 +02:00
lguest Merge branch 'x86-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2015-06-22 17:59:09 -07:00
lib perf/x86: Fix copy_from_user_nmi() return if range is not ok 2015-07-06 14:09:27 +02:00
math-emu x86/fpu: Harmonize FPU register state types 2015-05-19 15:48:09 +02:00
mm mm: ZONE_DEVICE for "device memory" 2015-08-27 19:40:58 -04:00
net Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next 2015-06-24 16:49:49 -07:00
oprofile x86/asm/entry: Change all 'user_mode_vm()' calls to 'user_mode()' 2015-03-23 11:14:17 +01:00
pci PCI changes for the v4.2 merge window: 2015-06-23 13:41:24 -07:00
platform Replace module_init with equivalent device_initcall in non modules. 2015-07-02 10:30:48 -07:00
power Merge branch 'x86-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2015-06-22 17:59:09 -07:00
purgatory
realmode
tools
um Merge branch 'for-linus-4.2-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rw/uml 2015-06-28 13:55:08 -07:00
video
xen Merge branch 'x86-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2015-06-22 17:59:09 -07:00
.gitignore
Kbuild x86/asm/entry, x86/vdso: Move the vDSO code to arch/x86/entry/vdso/ 2015-06-03 18:51:37 +02:00
Kconfig x86, pmem: clarify that ARCH_HAS_PMEM_API implies PMEM mapped WB 2015-08-27 19:40:59 -04:00
Kconfig.cpu
Kconfig.debug x86/entry/64, x86/nmi/64: Add CONFIG_DEBUG_ENTRY NMI testing code 2015-07-17 12:50:14 +02:00
Makefile x86/asm/entry: Move the arch/x86/syscalls/ definitions to arch/x86/entry/syscalls/ 2015-06-04 07:37:37 +02:00
Makefile.um kbuild: use relative path more to include Makefile 2015-04-02 16:42:08 +02:00
Makefile_32.cpu