We only support persistent memory on P8 and above. This is enforced by the firmware and further checked on virtualzied platform during platform init. Add WARN_ONCE in pmem flush routines to catch the wrong usage of these.
Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.ku...@linux.ibm.com> --- arch/powerpc/include/asm/cacheflush.h | 2 ++ arch/powerpc/lib/pmem.c | 2 ++ 2 files changed, 4 insertions(+) diff --git a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/cacheflush.h b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/cacheflush.h index bc3ea009cf14..865fae8a226e 100644 --- a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/cacheflush.h +++ b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/cacheflush.h @@ -125,6 +125,8 @@ static inline void arch_pmem_flush_barrier(void) { if (cpu_has_feature(CPU_FTR_ARCH_207S)) asm volatile(PPC_PHWSYNC ::: "memory"); + else + WARN_ONCE(1, "Using pmem flush on older hardware."); } #endif /* __KERNEL__ */ diff --git a/arch/powerpc/lib/pmem.c b/arch/powerpc/lib/pmem.c index 21210fa676e5..f40bd908d28d 100644 --- a/arch/powerpc/lib/pmem.c +++ b/arch/powerpc/lib/pmem.c @@ -37,12 +37,14 @@ static inline void clean_pmem_range(unsigned long start, unsigned long stop) { if (cpu_has_feature(CPU_FTR_ARCH_207S)) return __clean_pmem_range(start, stop); + WARN_ONCE(1, "Using pmem flush on older hardware."); } static inline void flush_pmem_range(unsigned long start, unsigned long stop) { if (cpu_has_feature(CPU_FTR_ARCH_207S)) return __flush_pmem_range(start, stop); + WARN_ONCE(1, "Using pmem flush on older hardware."); } /* -- 2.26.2