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author | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2020-08-07 20:33:50 +0300 |
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committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2020-08-07 20:33:50 +0300 |
commit | 25d8d4eecace9de5a6a2193e4df1917afbdd3052 (patch) | |
tree | 1f1bbde6423745251c41fb4d1842e70b9f7bca07 /Documentation/memory-barriers.txt | |
parent | 60e76bb8a4e4c5398ea9053535e1fd0c9d6bb06e (diff) | |
parent | a7aaa2f26bfd932a654706b19859e7adf802bee2 (diff) | |
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Merge tag 'powerpc-5.9-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/powerpc/linux
Pull powerpc updates from Michael Ellerman:
- Add support for (optionally) using queued spinlocks & rwlocks.
- Support for a new faster system call ABI using the scv instruction on
Power9 or later.
- Drop support for the PROT_SAO mmap/mprotect flag as it will be
unsupported on Power10 and future processors, leaving us with no way
to implement the functionality it requests. This risks breaking
userspace, though we believe it is unused in practice.
- A bug fix for, and then the removal of, our custom stack expansion
checking. We now allow stack expansion up to the rlimit, like other
architectures.
- Remove the remnants of our (previously disabled) topology update
code, which tried to react to NUMA layout changes on virtualised
systems, but was prone to crashes and other problems.
- Add PMU support for Power10 CPUs.
- A change to our signal trampoline so that we don't unbalance the link
stack (branch return predictor) in the signal delivery path.
- Lots of other cleanups, refactorings, smaller features and so on as
usual.
Thanks to: Abhishek Goel, Alastair D'Silva, Alexander A. Klimov, Alexey
Kardashevskiy, Alistair Popple, Andrew Donnellan, Aneesh Kumar K.V, Anju
T Sudhakar, Anton Blanchard, Arnd Bergmann, Athira Rajeev, Balamuruhan
S, Bharata B Rao, Bill Wendling, Bin Meng, Cédric Le Goater, Chris
Packham, Christophe Leroy, Christoph Hellwig, Daniel Axtens, Dan
Williams, David Lamparter, Desnes A. Nunes do Rosario, Erhard F., Finn
Thain, Frederic Barrat, Ganesh Goudar, Gautham R. Shenoy, Geoff Levand,
Greg Kurz, Gustavo A. R. Silva, Hari Bathini, Harish, Imre Kaloz, Joel
Stanley, Joe Perches, John Crispin, Jordan Niethe, Kajol Jain, Kamalesh
Babulal, Kees Cook, Laurent Dufour, Leonardo Bras, Li RongQing, Madhavan
Srinivasan, Mahesh Salgaonkar, Mark Cave-Ayland, Michal Suchanek, Milton
Miller, Mimi Zohar, Murilo Opsfelder Araujo, Nathan Chancellor, Nathan
Lynch, Naveen N. Rao, Nayna Jain, Nicholas Piggin, Oliver O'Halloran,
Palmer Dabbelt, Pedro Miraglia Franco de Carvalho, Philippe Bergheaud,
Pingfan Liu, Pratik Rajesh Sampat, Qian Cai, Qinglang Miao, Randy
Dunlap, Ravi Bangoria, Sachin Sant, Sam Bobroff, Sandipan Das, Santosh
Sivaraj, Satheesh Rajendran, Shirisha Ganta, Sourabh Jain, Srikar
Dronamraju, Stan Johnson, Stephen Rothwell, Thadeu Lima de Souza
Cascardo, Thiago Jung Bauermann, Tom Lane, Vaibhav Jain, Vladis Dronov,
Wei Yongjun, Wen Xiong, YueHaibing.
* tag 'powerpc-5.9-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/powerpc/linux: (337 commits)
selftests/powerpc: Fix pkey syscall redefinitions
powerpc: Fix circular dependency between percpu.h and mmu.h
powerpc/powernv/sriov: Fix use of uninitialised variable
selftests/powerpc: Skip vmx/vsx/tar/etc tests on older CPUs
powerpc/40x: Fix assembler warning about r0
powerpc/papr_scm: Add support for fetching nvdimm 'fuel-gauge' metric
powerpc/papr_scm: Fetch nvdimm performance stats from PHYP
cpuidle: pseries: Fixup exit latency for CEDE(0)
cpuidle: pseries: Add function to parse extended CEDE records
cpuidle: pseries: Set the latency-hint before entering CEDE
selftests/powerpc: Fix online CPU selection
powerpc/perf: Consolidate perf_callchain_user_[64|32]()
powerpc/pseries/hotplug-cpu: Remove double free in error path
powerpc/pseries/mobility: Add pr_debug() for device tree changes
powerpc/pseries/mobility: Set pr_fmt()
powerpc/cacheinfo: Warn if cache object chain becomes unordered
powerpc/cacheinfo: Improve diagnostics about malformed cache lists
powerpc/cacheinfo: Use name@unit instead of full DT path in debug messages
powerpc/cacheinfo: Set pr_fmt()
powerpc: fix function annotations to avoid section mismatch warnings with gcc-10
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diff --git a/Documentation/memory-barriers.txt b/Documentation/memory-barriers.txt index 4e55aba3eb4a..96186332e5f4 100644 --- a/Documentation/memory-barriers.txt +++ b/Documentation/memory-barriers.txt @@ -1935,6 +1935,20 @@ There are some more advanced barrier functions: relaxed I/O accessors and the Documentation/DMA-API.txt file for more information on consistent memory. + (*) pmem_wmb(); + + This is for use with persistent memory to ensure that stores for which + modifications are written to persistent storage reached a platform + durability domain. + + For example, after a non-temporal write to pmem region, we use pmem_wmb() + to ensure that stores have reached a platform durability domain. This ensures + that stores have updated persistent storage before any data access or + data transfer caused by subsequent instructions is initiated. This is + in addition to the ordering done by wmb(). + + For load from persistent memory, existing read memory barriers are sufficient + to ensure read ordering. =============================== IMPLICIT KERNEL MEMORY BARRIERS |