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+/*
+ * BRIEF DESCRIPTION
+ *
+ * Definitions for the NOVA filesystem.
+ *
+ * Copyright 2015-2016 Regents of the University of California,
+ * UCSD Non-Volatile Systems Lab, Andiry Xu <jix024@cs.ucsd.edu>
+ * Copyright 2012-2013 Intel Corporation
+ * Copyright 2009-2011 Marco Stornelli <marco.stornelli@gmail.com>
+ * Copyright 2003 Sony Corporation
+ * Copyright 2003 Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
+ * 2003-2004 (c) MontaVista Software, Inc. , Steve Longerbeam
+ *
+ * This file is licensed under the terms of the GNU General Public
+ * License version 2. This program is licensed "as is" without any
+ * warranty of any kind, whether express or implied.
+ */
+#ifndef _LINUX_NOVA_DEF_H
+#define _LINUX_NOVA_DEF_H
+
+#include <linux/types.h>
+#include <linux/magic.h>
+
+#define NOVA_SUPER_MAGIC 0x4E4F5641 /* NOVA */
+
+/*
+ * The NOVA filesystem constants/structures
+ */
+
+/*
+ * Mount flags
+ */
+#define NOVA_MOUNT_XATTR_USER 0x000002 /* Extended user attributes */
+#define NOVA_MOUNT_POSIX_ACL 0x000004 /* POSIX Access Control Lists */
+#define NOVA_MOUNT_DAX 0x000008 /* Direct Access */
+#define NOVA_MOUNT_ERRORS_CONT 0x000010 /* Continue on errors */
+#define NOVA_MOUNT_ERRORS_RO 0x000020 /* Remount fs ro on errors */
+#define NOVA_MOUNT_ERRORS_PANIC 0x000040 /* Panic on errors */
+#define NOVA_MOUNT_HUGEMMAP 0x000080 /* Huge mappings with mmap */
+#define NOVA_MOUNT_HUGEIOREMAP 0x000100 /* Huge mappings with ioremap */
+#define NOVA_MOUNT_FORMAT 0x000200 /* was FS formatted on mount? */
+
+/*
+ * Maximal count of links to a file
+ */
+#define NOVA_LINK_MAX 32000
+
+#define NOVA_DEF_BLOCK_SIZE_4K 4096
+
+#define NOVA_INODE_BITS 7
+#define NOVA_INODE_SIZE 128 /* must be power of two */
+
+#define NOVA_NAME_LEN 255
+
+#define MAX_CPUS 1024
+
+/* NOVA supported data blocks */
+#define NOVA_BLOCK_TYPE_4K 0
+#define NOVA_BLOCK_TYPE_2M 1
+#define NOVA_BLOCK_TYPE_1G 2
+#define NOVA_BLOCK_TYPE_MAX 3
+
+#define META_BLK_SHIFT 9
+
+/*
+ * Play with this knob to change the default block type.
+ * By changing the NOVA_DEFAULT_BLOCK_TYPE to 2M or 1G,
+ * we should get pretty good coverage in testing.
+ */
+#define NOVA_DEFAULT_BLOCK_TYPE NOVA_BLOCK_TYPE_4K
+
+
+/* ======================= Write ordering ========================= */
+
+#define CACHELINE_SIZE (64)
+#define CACHELINE_MASK (~(CACHELINE_SIZE - 1))
+#define CACHELINE_ALIGN(addr) (((addr)+CACHELINE_SIZE-1) & CACHELINE_MASK)
+
+
+static inline bool arch_has_clwb(void)
+{
+ return static_cpu_has(X86_FEATURE_CLWB);
+}
+
+extern int support_clwb;
+
+#define _mm_clflush(addr)\
+ asm volatile("clflush %0" : "+m" (*(volatile char *)(addr)))
+#define _mm_clflushopt(addr)\
+ asm volatile(".byte 0x66; clflush %0" : "+m" \
+ (*(volatile char *)(addr)))
+#define _mm_clwb(addr)\
+ asm volatile(".byte 0x66; xsaveopt %0" : "+m" \
+ (*(volatile char *)(addr)))
+
+/* Provides ordering from all previous clflush too */
+static inline void PERSISTENT_MARK(void)
+{
+ /* TODO: Fix me. */
+}
+
+static inline void PERSISTENT_BARRIER(void)
+{
+ asm volatile ("sfence\n" : : );
+}
+
+static inline void nova_flush_buffer(void *buf, uint32_t len, bool fence)
+{
+ uint32_t i;
+
+ len = len + ((unsigned long)(buf) & (CACHELINE_SIZE - 1));
+ if (support_clwb) {
+ for (i = 0; i < len; i += CACHELINE_SIZE)
+ _mm_clwb(buf + i);
+ } else {
+ for (i = 0; i < len; i += CACHELINE_SIZE)
+ _mm_clflush(buf + i);
+ }
+ /* Do a fence only if asked. We often don't need to do a fence
+ * immediately after clflush because even if we get context switched
+ * between clflush and subsequent fence, the context switch operation
+ * provides implicit fence.
+ */
+ if (fence)
+ PERSISTENT_BARRIER();
+}
+
+#endif /* _LINUX_NOVA_DEF_H */