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libnvdimm/region: Fix nvdimm_has_flush() to handle ND_REGION_ASYNC
authorVaibhav Jain <vaibhav@linux.ibm.com>
Fri, 2 Apr 2021 09:25:55 +0000 (14:55 +0530)
committerDan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Sat, 10 Apr 2021 04:56:01 +0000 (21:56 -0700)
commitdd32761c098e1d60fd2f472ee8fdd4eb9f1941fb
treea3155898cd4806290ceb1fd9b2609003c0d6399f
parente5149ce081078ebc51f48b42b68c3d57f53b9a55
libnvdimm/region: Fix nvdimm_has_flush() to handle ND_REGION_ASYNC

In case a platform doesn't provide explicit flush-hints but provides an
explicit flush callback via ND_REGION_ASYNC region flag, then
nvdimm_has_flush() still returns '0' indicating that writes do not
require flushing. This happens on PPC64 with patch at [1] applied, where
'deep_flush' of a region was denied even though an explicit flush
function was provided.

Fix this by adding a condition to nvdimm_has_flush() to test for the
ND_REGION_ASYNC flag on the region and see if a 'region->flush' callback
is assigned.

Link: http://lore.kernel.org/r/161703936121.36.7260632399582101498.stgit@e1fbed493c87
Fixes: 53fd03883c16 ("libnvdimm: nd_region flush callback support")
Reported-by: Shivaprasad G Bhat <sbhat@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Vaibhav Jain <vaibhav@linux.ibm.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210402092555.208590-1-vaibhav@linux.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
drivers/nvdimm/region_devs.c