Messages in this thread Patch in this message | | | Subject | [PATCH 2/4] lib/iov_iter: Document _copy_to_iter_flushcache() | From | Dan Williams <> | Date | Sun, 08 Jul 2018 13:46:07 -0700 |
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Add some theory of operation documentation to _copy_to_iter_flushcache().
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net> Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com> Reported-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com> --- lib/iov_iter.c | 14 ++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+)
diff --git a/lib/iov_iter.c b/lib/iov_iter.c index 94fa361be7bb..09fb73ad9d54 100644 --- a/lib/iov_iter.c +++ b/lib/iov_iter.c @@ -727,6 +727,20 @@ size_t _copy_from_iter_nocache(void *addr, size_t bytes, struct iov_iter *i) EXPORT_SYMBOL(_copy_from_iter_nocache); #ifdef CONFIG_ARCH_HAS_UACCESS_FLUSHCACHE +/** + * _copy_from_iter_flushcache - write destination through cpu cache + * @addr: destination kernel address + * @bytes: total transfer length + * @iter: source iterator + * + * The pmem driver arranges for filesystem-dax to use this facility via + * dax_copy_from_iter() for ensuring that writes to persistent memory + * are flushed through the CPU cache. It is differentiated from + * _copy_from_iter_nocache() in that guarantees all data is flushed for + * all iterator types. The _copy_from_iter_nocache() only attempts to + * bypass the cache for the ITER_IOVEC case, and on some archs may use + * instructions that strand dirty-data in the cache. + */ size_t _copy_from_iter_flushcache(void *addr, size_t bytes, struct iov_iter *i) { char *to = addr;
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