dax: remove the pmem_dax_ops->flush abstraction

Commit abebfbe2f731 ("dm: add ->flush() dax operation support") is
buggy. A DM device may be composed of multiple underlying devices and
all of them need to be flushed. That commit just routes the flush
request to the first device and ignores the other devices.

It could be fixed by adding more complex logic to the device mapper. But
there is only one implementation of the method pmem_dax_ops->flush - that
is pmem_dax_flush() - and it calls arch_wb_cache_pmem(). Consequently, we
don't need the pmem_dax_ops->flush abstraction at all, we can call
arch_wb_cache_pmem() directly from dax_flush() because dax_dev->ops->flush
can't ever reach anything different from arch_wb_cache_pmem().

It should be also pointed out that for some uses of persistent memory it
is needed to flush only a very small amount of data (such as 1 cacheline),
and it would be overkill if we go through that device mapper machinery for
a single flushed cache line.

Fix this by removing the pmem_dax_ops->flush abstraction and call
arch_wb_cache_pmem() directly from dax_flush(). Also, remove the device
mapper code that forwards the flushes.

Fixes: abebfbe2f731 ("dm: add ->flush() dax operation support")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>

1 files changed, 0 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/include/linux/device-mapper.h b/include/linux/device-mapper.h
index 3b5fdf308148..a5538433c927 100644
--- a/include/linux/device-mapper.h
+++ b/include/linux/device-mapper.h
@@ -134,8 +134,6 @@ typedef long (*dm_dax_direct_access_fn) (struct dm_target *ti, pgoff_t pgoff,
 		long nr_pages, void **kaddr, pfn_t *pfn);
 typedef size_t (*dm_dax_copy_from_iter_fn)(struct dm_target *ti, pgoff_t pgoff,
 		void *addr, size_t bytes, struct iov_iter *i);
-typedef void (*dm_dax_flush_fn)(struct dm_target *ti, pgoff_t pgoff, void *addr,
-		size_t size);
 #define PAGE_SECTORS (PAGE_SIZE / 512)
 
 void dm_error(const char *message);
@@ -186,7 +184,6 @@ struct target_type {
 	dm_io_hints_fn io_hints;
 	dm_dax_direct_access_fn direct_access;
 	dm_dax_copy_from_iter_fn dax_copy_from_iter;
-	dm_dax_flush_fn dax_flush;
 
 	/* For internal device-mapper use. */
 	struct list_head list;