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authorDan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>2017-06-27 07:28:41 +0300
committerDan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>2017-06-29 19:29:50 +0300
commit6e0c90d691cd5d90569f5918ab03eb76c81f9c6e (patch)
tree58a98b00690d31fc0b7552cca10686661acaf51e /drivers/nvdimm
parent9a60c3ef577beb0376704808949f2c1f8fb0672c (diff)
downloadlinux-6e0c90d691cd5d90569f5918ab03eb76c81f9c6e.tar.xz
libnvdimm, pmem, dax: export a cache control attribute
The dax_flush() operation can be turned into a nop on platforms where firmware arranges for cpu caches to be flushed on a power-fail event. The ACPI 6.2 specification defines a mechanism for the platform to indicate this capability so the kernel can select the proper default. However, for other platforms, the administrator must toggle this setting manually. Given this flush setting is a dax-specific mechanism we advertise it through a 'dax' attribute group hanging off a host device. For example, a 'pmem0' block-device gets a 'dax' sysfs-subdirectory with a 'write_cache' attribute to control response to dax cache flush requests. This is similar to the 'queue/write_cache' attribute that appears under block devices. Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Cc: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com> Cc: Matthew Wilcox <mawilcox@microsoft.com> Cc: Ross Zwisler <ross.zwisler@linux.intel.com> Suggested-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/nvdimm')
-rw-r--r--drivers/nvdimm/pmem.c10
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/nvdimm/pmem.c b/drivers/nvdimm/pmem.c
index 06f6c27ec1e9..7339d184070e 100644
--- a/drivers/nvdimm/pmem.c
+++ b/drivers/nvdimm/pmem.c
@@ -253,6 +253,11 @@ static const struct dax_operations pmem_dax_ops = {
.flush = pmem_dax_flush,
};
+static const struct attribute_group *pmem_attribute_groups[] = {
+ &dax_attribute_group,
+ NULL,
+};
+
static void pmem_release_queue(void *q)
{
blk_cleanup_queue(q);
@@ -287,6 +292,7 @@ static int pmem_attach_disk(struct device *dev,
struct pmem_device *pmem;
struct resource pfn_res;
struct request_queue *q;
+ struct device *gendev;
struct gendisk *disk;
void *addr;
@@ -384,8 +390,12 @@ static int pmem_attach_disk(struct device *dev,
put_disk(disk);
return -ENOMEM;
}
+ dax_write_cache(dax_dev, true);
pmem->dax_dev = dax_dev;
+ gendev = disk_to_dev(disk);
+ gendev->groups = pmem_attribute_groups;
+
device_add_disk(dev, disk);
if (devm_add_action_or_reset(dev, pmem_release_disk, pmem))
return -ENOMEM;