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| author | Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com> | 2017-06-26 21:28:41 -0700 |
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| committer | Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com> | 2017-06-29 09:29:50 -0700 |
| commit | 6e0c90d691cd5d90569f5918ab03eb76c81f9c6e (patch) | |
| tree | 58a98b00690d31fc0b7552cca10686661acaf51e /include/linux/dax.h | |
| parent | 9a60c3ef577beb0376704808949f2c1f8fb0672c (diff) | |
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 'include/linux/dax.h')
| -rw-r--r-- | include/linux/dax.h | 3 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/dax.h b/include/linux/dax.h index 73fca1bebaf3..8f39db7439c3 100644 --- a/include/linux/dax.h +++ b/include/linux/dax.h @@ -23,6 +23,8 @@ struct dax_operations { void (*flush)(struct dax_device *, pgoff_t, void *, size_t); }; +extern struct attribute_group dax_attribute_group; + #if IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_DAX) struct dax_device *dax_get_by_host(const char *host); void put_dax(struct dax_device *dax_dev); @@ -84,6 +86,7 @@ size_t dax_copy_from_iter(struct dax_device *dax_dev, pgoff_t pgoff, void *addr, size_t bytes, struct iov_iter *i); void dax_flush(struct dax_device *dax_dev, pgoff_t pgoff, void *addr, size_t size); +void dax_write_cache(struct dax_device *dax_dev, bool wc); /* * We use lowest available bit in exceptional entry for locking, one bit for |