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lib/iov_iter: Document _copy_to_iter_flushcache()

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Add some theory of operation documentation to _copy_to_iter_flushcache().

Reported-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/153108276767.37979.9462477994086841699.stgit@dwillia2-desk3.amr.corp.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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Dan Williams 2018-07-08 13:46:07 -07:00 committed by Ingo Molnar
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@ -727,6 +727,20 @@ size_t _copy_from_iter_nocache(void *addr, size_t bytes, struct iov_iter *i)
EXPORT_SYMBOL(_copy_from_iter_nocache);
#ifdef CONFIG_ARCH_HAS_UACCESS_FLUSHCACHE
/**
* _copy_from_iter_flushcache - write destination through cpu cache
* @addr: destination kernel address
* @bytes: total transfer length
* @iter: source iterator
*
* The pmem driver arranges for filesystem-dax to use this facility via
* dax_copy_from_iter() for ensuring that writes to persistent memory
* are flushed through the CPU cache. It is differentiated from
* _copy_from_iter_nocache() in that guarantees all data is flushed for
* all iterator types. The _copy_from_iter_nocache() only attempts to
* bypass the cache for the ITER_IOVEC case, and on some archs may use
* instructions that strand dirty-data in the cache.
*/
size_t _copy_from_iter_flushcache(void *addr, size_t bytes, struct iov_iter *i)
{
char *to = addr;