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Commit 546eb031 authored by Ross Zwisler's avatar Ross Zwisler Committed by Dan Williams
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libnvdimm, pmem: Do not flush power-fail protected CPU caches



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5fdf8e5b ("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.

Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Fixes: 5fdf8e5b ("libnvdimm: re-enable deep flush for pmem devices via fsync()")
Signed-off-by: default avatarRoss Zwisler <ross.zwisler@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarDan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
parent ce7f11a2
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