Given that a write-back (WB) mapping plus non-temporal stores is
expected to be the most efficient way to access PMEM, update the
definition of ARCH_HAS_PMEM_API to imply arch support for
WB-mapped-PMEM. This is needed as a pre-requisite for adding PMEM to
the direct map and mapping it with struct page.
The above clarification for X86_64 means that memcpy_to_pmem() is
permitted to use the non-temporal arch_memcpy_to_pmem() rather than
needlessly fall back to default_memcpy_to_pmem() when the pcommit
instruction is not available. When arch_memcpy_to_pmem() is not
guaranteed to flush writes out of cache, i.e. on older X86_32
implementations where non-temporal stores may just dirty cache,
ARCH_HAS_PMEM_API is simply disabled.
The default fall back for persistent memory handling remains. Namely,
map it with the WT (write-through) cache-type and hope for the best.
arch_has_pmem_api() is updated to only indicate whether the arch
provides the proper helpers to meet the minimum "writes are visible
outside the cache hierarchy after memcpy_to_pmem() + wmb_pmem()". Code
that cares whether wmb_pmem() actually flushes writes to pmem must now
call arch_has_wmb_pmem() directly.
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Reviewed-by: Ross Zwisler <ross.zwisler@linux.intel.com>
[hch: set ARCH_HAS_PMEM_API=n on x86_32]
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
[toshi: x86_32 compile fixes]
Signed-off-by: Toshi Kani <toshi.kani@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
This should result in a pretty sizeable performance gain for reads. For
rough comparison I did some simple read testing using PMEM to compare
reads of write combining (WC) mappings vs write-back (WB). This was
done on a random lab machine.
PMEM reads from a write combining mapping:
# dd of=/dev/null if=/dev/pmem0 bs=4096 count=100000
100000+0 records in
100000+0 records out
409600000 bytes (410 MB) copied, 9.2855 s, 44.1 MB/s
PMEM reads from a write-back mapping:
# dd of=/dev/null if=/dev/pmem0 bs=4096 count=1000000
1000000+0 records in
1000000+0 records out
4096000000 bytes (4.1 GB) copied, 3.44034 s, 1.2 GB/s
To be able to safely support a write-back aperture I needed to add
support for the "read flush" _DSM flag, as outlined in the DSM spec:
http://pmem.io/documents/NVDIMM_DSM_Interface_Example.pdf
This flag tells the ND BLK driver that it needs to flush the cache lines
associated with the aperture after the aperture is moved but before any
new data is read. This ensures that any stale cache lines from the
previous contents of the aperture will be discarded from the processor
cache, and the new data will be read properly from the DIMM. We know
that the cache lines are clean and will be discarded without any
writeback because either a) the previous aperture operation was a read,
and we never modified the contents of the aperture, or b) the previous
aperture operation was a write and we must have written back the dirtied
contents of the aperture to the DIMM before the I/O was completed.
In order to add support for the "read flush" flag I needed to add a
generic routine to invalidate cache lines, mmio_flush_range(). This is
protected by the ARCH_HAS_MMIO_FLUSH Kconfig variable, and is currently
only supported on x86.
Signed-off-by: Ross Zwisler <ross.zwisler@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Add support for two new PMEM APIs, copy_from_iter_pmem() and
clear_pmem(). copy_from_iter_pmem() is used to copy data from an
iterator into a PMEM buffer. clear_pmem() zeros a PMEM memory range.
Both of these new APIs must be explicitly ordered using a wmb_pmem()
function call and are implemented in such a way that the wmb_pmem()
will make the stores to PMEM durable. Because both APIs are unordered
they can be called as needed without introducing any unwanted memory
barriers.
Signed-off-by: Ross Zwisler <ross.zwisler@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Prior to this change x86_64 used the pmem defines in
arch/x86/include/asm/pmem.h, and UM used the default ones at the
top of include/linux/pmem.h. The inclusion or exclusion in linux/pmem.h
was controlled by CONFIG_ARCH_HAS_PMEM_API, but the ones in asm/pmem.h
were controlled by ARCH_HAS_NOCACHE_UACCESS.
Instead, control them both with CONFIG_ARCH_HAS_PMEM_API so that it's
clear that they are related and we don't run into the possibility where
they are both included or excluded. Also remove a bunch of stale
function prototypes meant for UM in asm/pmem.h - these just conflicted
with the inline defaults in linux/pmem.h and gave compile errors.
Signed-off-by: Ross Zwisler <ross.zwisler@linux.intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Prior to this change arch_has_wmb_pmem() was only called by
arch_has_pmem_api(). Both arch_has_wmb_pmem() and arch_has_pmem_api()
checked to make sure that CONFIG_ARCH_HAS_PMEM_API was enabled.
Instead, remove the old arch_has_wmb_pmem() wrapper to be rid of one
extra layer of indirection and the redundant CONFIG_ARCH_HAS_PMEM_API
check. Rename __arch_has_wmb_pmem() to arch_has_wmb_pmem() since we no
longer have a wrapper, and just have arch_has_pmem_api() call the
architecture specific arch_has_wmb_pmem() directly.
Signed-off-by: Ross Zwisler <ross.zwisler@linux.intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Move the x86 PMEM API implementation out of asm/cacheflush.h and into
its own header asm/pmem.h. This will allow members of the PMEM API to
be more easily identified on this and other architectures.
Signed-off-by: Ross Zwisler <ross.zwisler@linux.intel.com>
Suggested-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Dan Williams