copy_from_iter_nocache() now uses nocache copies for all types of iovecs on x86, so the flush in arch_copy_from_iter_pmem() is no longer needed.
Cc: Ross Zwisler <[email protected]> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <[email protected]> Cc: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]> Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <[email protected]> Cc: <[email protected]> Cc: Al Viro <[email protected]> Cc: Dan Williams <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Brian Boylston <[email protected]> Reviewed-by: Toshi Kani <[email protected]> Reported-by: Oliver Moreno <[email protected]> --- arch/x86/include/asm/pmem.h | 19 +------------------ 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 18 deletions(-) diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/pmem.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/pmem.h index 643eba4..2fbf4ae 100644 --- a/arch/x86/include/asm/pmem.h +++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/pmem.h @@ -72,15 +72,6 @@ static inline void arch_wb_cache_pmem(void *addr, size_t size) clwb(p); } -/* - * copy_from_iter_nocache() on x86 only uses non-temporal stores for iovec - * iterators, so for other types (bvec & kvec) we must do a cache write-back. - */ -static inline bool __iter_needs_pmem_wb(struct iov_iter *i) -{ - return iter_is_iovec(i) == false; -} - /** * arch_copy_from_iter_pmem - copy data from an iterator to PMEM * @addr: PMEM destination address @@ -92,15 +83,7 @@ static inline bool __iter_needs_pmem_wb(struct iov_iter *i) static inline size_t arch_copy_from_iter_pmem(void *addr, size_t bytes, struct iov_iter *i) { - size_t len; - - /* TODO: skip the write-back by always using non-temporal stores */ - len = copy_from_iter_nocache(addr, bytes, i); - - if (__iter_needs_pmem_wb(i)) - arch_wb_cache_pmem(addr, bytes); - - return len; + return copy_from_iter_nocache(addr, bytes, i); } /** -- 2.8.3

