Data corruption issues were observed in tests which initiated
a system crash/reset while accessing BTT devices. This problem
is reproducible.
The BTT driver calls pmem_rw_bytes() to update data in pmem
devices. This interface calls __copy_user_nocache(), which
uses non-temporal stores so that the stores to pmem are
persistent.
__copy_user_nocache() uses non-temporal stores when a request
size is 8 bytes or larger (and is aligned by 8 bytes). The
BTT driver updates the BTT map table, which entry size is
4 bytes. Therefore, updates to the map table entries remain
cached, and are not written to pmem after a crash.
Change __copy_user_nocache() to use non-temporal store when
a request size is 4 bytes. The change extends the current
byte-copy path for a less-than-8-bytes request, and does not
add any overhead to the regular path.
Reported-and-tested-by: Micah Parrish <micah.parrish@hpe.com>
Reported-and-tested-by: Brian Boylston <brian.boylston@hpe.com>
Signed-off-by: Toshi Kani <toshi.kani@hpe.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Cc: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com>
Cc: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Cc: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@redhat.com>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Luis R. Rodriguez <mcgrof@suse.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Ross Zwisler <ross.zwisler@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Toshi Kani <toshi.kani@hp.com>
Cc: Vishal Verma <vishal.l.verma@intel.com>
Cc: linux-nvdimm@lists.01.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1455225857-12039-3-git-send-email-toshi.kani@hpe.com
[ Small readability edits. ]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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