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Commit 0a370d26 authored by Dan Williams's avatar Dan Williams Committed by Ross Zwisler
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libnvdimm, pmem: clarify the write+clear_poison+write flow



The ACPI specification does not specify the state of data after a clear
poison operation.  Potential future libnvdimm bus implementations for
other architectures also might not specify or disagree on the state of
data after clear poison.  Clarify why we write twice.

Reported-by: default avatarJeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com>
Reported-by: default avatarVishal Verma <vishal.l.verma@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarDan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarRoss Zwisler <ross.zwisler@linux.intel.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarJohannes Thumshirn <jthumshirn@suse.de>
Reviewed-by: default avatarJeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarVishal Verma <vishal.l.verma@intel.com>
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