[dm-devel] [resend PATCH v2 30/33] libnvdimm, pmem: fix persistence warning

Dan Williams dan.j.williams at intel.com
Mon Apr 17 19:11:32 UTC 2017


The pmem driver assumes if platform firmware describes the memory
devices associated with a persistent memory range and
CONFIG_ARCH_HAS_PMEM_API=y that it has all the mechanism necessary to
flush data to a power-fail safe zone. We warn if the firmware does not
describe memory devices, but we also need to warn if the architecture
does not claim pmem support.

Cc: Jan Kara <jack at suse.cz>
Cc: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer at redhat.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch at lst.de>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <mawilcox at microsoft.com>
Cc: Ross Zwisler <ross.zwisler at linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams at intel.com>
---
 drivers/nvdimm/region_devs.c |    5 +++--
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/nvdimm/region_devs.c b/drivers/nvdimm/region_devs.c
index 307a48060aa3..5976f6c0407f 100644
--- a/drivers/nvdimm/region_devs.c
+++ b/drivers/nvdimm/region_devs.c
@@ -970,8 +970,9 @@ int nvdimm_has_flush(struct nd_region *nd_region)
 	struct nd_region_data *ndrd = dev_get_drvdata(&nd_region->dev);
 	int i;
 
-	/* no nvdimm == flushing capability unknown */
-	if (nd_region->ndr_mappings == 0)
+	/* no nvdimm or pmem api == flushing capability unknown */
+	if (nd_region->ndr_mappings == 0
+			|| !IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_ARCH_HAS_PMEM_API))
 		return -ENXIO;
 
 	for (i = 0; i < nd_region->ndr_mappings; i++)




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