On Wed, Apr 13, 2022 at 5:55 PM Jane Chu <jane.chu@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On 4/11/2022 9:26 PM, Dan Williams wrote:
> > On Tue, Apr 5, 2022 at 12:48 PM Jane Chu <jane.chu@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >>
> >> Refactor the pmem_clear_poison() in order to share common code
> >> later.
> >>
> >
> > I would just add a note here about why, i.e. to factor out the common
> > shared code between the typical write path and the recovery write
> > path.
>
> Okay.
>
> >
> >> Signed-off-by: Jane Chu <jane.chu@xxxxxxxxxx>
> >> ---
> >> drivers/nvdimm/pmem.c | 78 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++---------------
> >> 1 file changed, 52 insertions(+), 26 deletions(-)
> >>
> >> diff --git a/drivers/nvdimm/pmem.c b/drivers/nvdimm/pmem.c
> >> index 0400c5a7ba39..56596be70400 100644
> >> --- a/drivers/nvdimm/pmem.c
> >> +++ b/drivers/nvdimm/pmem.c
> >> @@ -45,10 +45,27 @@ static struct nd_region *to_region(struct pmem_device *pmem)
> >> return to_nd_region(to_dev(pmem)->parent);
> >> }
> >>
> >> -static void hwpoison_clear(struct pmem_device *pmem,
> >> - phys_addr_t phys, unsigned int len)
> >> +static phys_addr_t to_phys(struct pmem_device *pmem, phys_addr_t offset)
> >> {
> >> + return (pmem->phys_addr + offset);
> >
> > Christoph already mentioned dropping the unnecessary parenthesis.
> >
> >> +}
> >> +
> >> +static sector_t to_sect(struct pmem_device *pmem, phys_addr_t offset)
> >> +{
> >> + return (offset - pmem->data_offset) >> SECTOR_SHIFT;
> >> +}
> >> +
> >> +static phys_addr_t to_offset(struct pmem_device *pmem, sector_t sector)
> >> +{
> >> + return ((sector << SECTOR_SHIFT) + pmem->data_offset);
> >> +}
> >> +
> >> +static void pmem_clear_hwpoison(struct pmem_device *pmem, phys_addr_t offset,
> >> + unsigned int len)
> >
> > Perhaps now is a good time to rename this to something else like
> > pmem_clear_mce_nospec()? Just to make it more distinct from
> > pmem_clear_poison(). While "hwpoison" is the page flag name
> > pmem_clear_poison() is the function that's actually clearing the
> > poison in hardware ("hw") and the new pmem_clear_mce_nospec() is
> > toggling the page back into service.
>
> I get your point. How about calling the function explicitly
> pmem_mkpage_present()?
Sure, I like pmem_mkpage_present().
