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Subject[PATCH v3 4/4] libnvdimm: don't flush power-fail protected CPU caches
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5fdf8e5ba566 ("libnvdimm: re-enable deep flush for pmem devices via fsync()")

intended to make sure that deep flush was always available even on
platforms which support a power-fail protected CPU cache. An unintended
side effect of this change was that we also lost the ability to skip
flushing CPU caches on those power-fail protected CPU cache.

Fix this by skipping the low level cache flushing in dax_flush() if we have
CPU caches which are power-fail protected. The user can still override this
behavior by manually setting the write_cache state of a namespace. See
libndctl's ndctl_namespace_write_cache_is_enabled(),
ndctl_namespace_enable_write_cache() and
ndctl_namespace_disable_write_cache() functions.

Signed-off-by: Ross Zwisler <ross.zwisler@linux.intel.com>
Fixes: 5fdf8e5ba566 ("libnvdimm: re-enable deep flush for pmem devices via fsync()")
---
drivers/nvdimm/region_devs.c | 3 ++-
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/nvdimm/region_devs.c b/drivers/nvdimm/region_devs.c
index a612be6f019d..ec3543b83330 100644
--- a/drivers/nvdimm/region_devs.c
+++ b/drivers/nvdimm/region_devs.c
@@ -1132,7 +1132,8 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(nvdimm_has_flush);

int nvdimm_has_cache(struct nd_region *nd_region)
{
- return is_nd_pmem(&nd_region->dev);
+ return is_nd_pmem(&nd_region->dev) &&
+ !test_bit(ND_REGION_PERSIST_CACHE, &nd_region->flags);
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(nvdimm_has_cache);

--
2.14.4
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