From 3c1cebff23cdca01c421411e953a9e239f2b9ef9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Dan Williams Date: Mon, 29 May 2017 12:58:19 -0700 Subject: dax, pmem: introduce an optional 'flush' dax_operation Filesystem-DAX flushes caches whenever it writes to the address returned through dax_direct_access() and when writing back dirty radix entries. That flushing is only required in the pmem case, so add a dax operation to allow pmem to take this extra action, but skip it for other dax capable devices that do not provide a flush routine. An example for this differentiation might be a volatile ram disk where there is no expectation of persistence. In fact the pmem driver itself might front such an address range specified by the NFIT. So, this "no flush" property might be something passed down by the bus / libnvdimm. Cc: Christoph Hellwig Cc: Matthew Wilcox Cc: Ross Zwisler Reviewed-by: Jan Kara Signed-off-by: Dan Williams --- include/linux/dax.h | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) (limited to 'include/linux/dax.h') diff --git a/include/linux/dax.h b/include/linux/dax.h index 28e398f8c59e..407dd3ff6e54 100644 --- a/include/linux/dax.h +++ b/include/linux/dax.h @@ -19,6 +19,8 @@ struct dax_operations { /* copy_from_iter: dax-driver override for default copy_from_iter */ size_t (*copy_from_iter)(struct dax_device *, pgoff_t, void *, size_t, struct iov_iter *); + /* flush: optional driver-specific cache management after writes */ + void (*flush)(struct dax_device *, pgoff_t, void *, size_t); }; #if IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_DAX) -- cgit v1.2.3-59-g8ed1b