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From a2948b17f6b936fc52f86c0f92c46d2f91928b79 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Vaibhav Jain <vaibhav@linux.ibm.com>
Date: Fri, 2 Apr 2021 14:55:55 +0530
Subject: [PATCH] libnvdimm/region: Fix nvdimm_has_flush() to handle
 ND_REGION_ASYNC

References: bsc#1184969 git-fixes
Patch-mainline: v5.12-rc8
Git-commit: a2948b17f6b936fc52f86c0f92c46d2f91928b79

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 [1]
Fixes: c5d4355d10d4 ("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>
Acked-by: Michal Suchanek <msuchanek@suse.de>
---
 drivers/nvdimm/region_devs.c | 9 +++++++--
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/nvdimm/region_devs.c b/drivers/nvdimm/region_devs.c
index 51870eb51da6..9ccf3d608799 100644
--- a/drivers/nvdimm/region_devs.c
+++ b/drivers/nvdimm/region_devs.c
@@ -1246,6 +1246,11 @@ int nvdimm_has_flush(struct nd_region *nd_region)
 			|| !IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_ARCH_HAS_PMEM_API))
 		return -ENXIO;
 
+	/* Test if an explicit flush function is defined */
+	if (test_bit(ND_REGION_ASYNC, &nd_region->flags) && nd_region->flush)
+		return 1;
+
+	/* Test if any flush hints for the region are available */
 	for (i = 0; i < nd_region->ndr_mappings; i++) {
 		struct nd_mapping *nd_mapping = &nd_region->mapping[i];
 		struct nvdimm *nvdimm = nd_mapping->nvdimm;
@@ -1256,8 +1261,8 @@ int nvdimm_has_flush(struct nd_region *nd_region)
 	}
 
 	/*
-	 * The platform defines dimm devices without hints, assume
-	 * platform persistence mechanism like ADR
+	 * The platform defines dimm devices without hints nor explicit flush,
+	 * assume platform persistence mechanism like ADR
 	 */
 	return 0;
 }
-- 
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