On Tue, Dec 22, 2015 at 02:44:40PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: > On Fri, 18 Dec 2015 22:22:14 -0700 Ross Zwisler <ross.zwisler@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > The function __arch_wb_cache_pmem() was already an internal implementation > > detail of the x86 PMEM API, but this functionality needs to be exported as > > part of the general PMEM API to handle the fsync/msync case for DAX mmaps. > > > > One thing worth noting is that we really do want this to be part of the > > PMEM API as opposed to a stand-alone function like clflush_cache_range() > > because of ordering restrictions. By having wb_cache_pmem() as part of the > > PMEM API we can leave it unordered, call it multiple times to write back > > large amounts of memory, and then order the multiple calls with a single > > wmb_pmem(). > > > > @@ -138,7 +139,7 @@ static inline void arch_clear_pmem(void __pmem *addr, size_t size) > > else > > memset(vaddr, 0, size); > > > > - __arch_wb_cache_pmem(vaddr, size); > > + arch_wb_cache_pmem(addr, size); > > } > > > > reject. I made this > > arch_wb_cache_pmem(vaddr, size); > > due to Dan's > http://www.ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmots/broken-out/pmem-dax-clean-up-clear_pmem.patch The first argument seems wrong to me - in arch_clear_pmem() 'addr' and 'vaddr' are the same address, with the only difference being 'addr' has the __pmem annotation. As of this patch arch_wb_cache_pmem() follows the lead of the rest of the exported PMEM API functions and takes an argument that has the __pmem annotation, so I believe it should be: arch_wb_cache_pmem(addr, size); Without this I think you'll get a sparse warning. This will be fixed up in the next version of my series which build upon Dan's patches. -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@xxxxxxxxx. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: <a href=mailto:"dont@xxxxxxxxx";> email@xxxxxxxxx </a>