On Tue, Jan 27, 2015 at 09:53:50AM -0700, Ross Zwisler wrote:
> Add support for the new pcommit (persistent commit) instruction. This
> instruction was announced in the document "Intel Architecture
> Instruction Set Extensions Programming Reference" with reference number
> 319433-022.
>
> https://software.intel.com/sites/default/files/managed/0d/53/319433-022.pdf
>
> The pcommit instruction ensures that data that has been flushed from the
> processor's cache hierarchy with clwb, clflushopt or clflush is accepted to
> memory and is durable on the DIMM. The primary use case for this is
> persistent
> memory.
>
> This function shows how to properly use clwb/clflushopt/clflush and
> pcommit with appropriate fencing:
...
> This is still correct, but now you've got two fences separated by only a
> nop. With the commit and the fence together in pcommit_sfence() you
> avoid the final unneeded fence.
>
> Signed-off-by: Ross Zwisler <ross.zwis...@linux.intel.com>
> Cc: H Peter Anvin <h.peter.an...@intel.com>
> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mi...@kernel.org>
> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <t...@linutronix.de>
> Cc: Borislav Petkov <b...@alien8.de>
Acked-by: Borislav Petkov <b...@suse.de>
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Regards/Gruss,
Boris.
ECO tip #101: Trim your mails when you reply.
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