Re: [PATCH v3 08/14] x86, dax, libnvdimm: move wb_cache_pmem() to libnvdimm

[Dan Williams]

On Sun, Jun 18, 2017 at 1:40 AM, Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx> wrote:
>> +void clean_cache_range(void *addr, size_t size);
>>
>>  static inline int
>>  __copy_from_user_inatomic_nocache(void *dst, const void __user *src,
>> diff --git a/arch/x86/lib/usercopy_64.c b/arch/x86/lib/usercopy_64.c
>> index f42d2fd86ca3..baa80ff29da8 100644
>> --- a/arch/x86/lib/usercopy_64.c
>> +++ b/arch/x86/lib/usercopy_64.c
>> @@ -85,7 +85,7 @@ copy_user_handle_tail(char *to, char *from, unsigned len)
>>   * instruction. Note that @size is internally rounded up to be cache
>>   * line size aligned.
>>   */
>> -static void clean_cache_range(void *addr, size_t size)
>> +void clean_cache_range(void *addr, size_t size)
>
> Can you keep clean_cache_range private please?  Just add
> arch_wb_cache_pmem to usercopy_64.c just behind it so that the
> compiler can tail-call and export that instead.
>
>> --- a/drivers/nvdimm/pmem.h
>> +++ b/drivers/nvdimm/pmem.h
>> @@ -4,6 +4,13 @@
>>  #include <linux/types.h>
>>  #include <linux/pfn_t.h>
>>  #include <linux/fs.h>
>> +#include <asm/pmem.h>
>> +
>> +#ifndef CONFIG_ARCH_HAS_PMEM_API
>> +static inline void arch_wb_cache_pmem(void *addr, size_t size)
>> +{
>> +}
>> +#endif
>
> And our normal Linux style would be to have this linux linux/pmem.h,
> which should always be included for the asm version.

Ok, will do.