x86/insn: remove pcommit

The pcommit instruction is being deprecated in favor of either ADR
(asynchronous DRAM refresh: flush-on-power-fail) at the platform level, or
posted-write-queue flush addresses as defined by the ACPI 6.x NFIT (NVDIMM
Firmware Interface Table).

Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: x86@kernel.org
Cc: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org>
Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Cc: Xiao Guangrong <guangrong.xiao@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Cc: Ross Zwisler <ross.zwisler@linux.intel.com>
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>

1 files changed, 0 insertions, 46 deletions

diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/special_insns.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/special_insns.h
index d96d043777656..587d7914ea4b5 100644
--- a/arch/x86/include/asm/special_insns.h
+++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/special_insns.h
@@ -253,52 +253,6 @@ static inline void clwb(volatile void *__p)
 		: [pax] "a" (p));
 }
 
-/**
- * pcommit_sfence() - persistent commit and fence
- *
- * The PCOMMIT instruction ensures that data that has been flushed from the
- * processor's cache hierarchy with CLWB, CLFLUSHOPT or CLFLUSH is accepted to
- * memory and is durable on the DIMM.  The primary use case for this is
- * persistent memory.
- *
- * This function shows how to properly use CLWB/CLFLUSHOPT/CLFLUSH and PCOMMIT
- * with appropriate fencing.
- *
- * Example:
- * void flush_and_commit_buffer(void *vaddr, unsigned int size)
- * {
- *         unsigned long clflush_mask = boot_cpu_data.x86_clflush_size - 1;
- *         void *vend = vaddr + size;
- *         void *p;
- *
- *         for (p = (void *)((unsigned long)vaddr & ~clflush_mask);
- *              p < vend; p += boot_cpu_data.x86_clflush_size)
- *                 clwb(p);
- *
- *         // SFENCE to order CLWB/CLFLUSHOPT/CLFLUSH cache flushes
- *         // MFENCE via mb() also works
- *         wmb();
- *
- *         // PCOMMIT and the required SFENCE for ordering
- *         pcommit_sfence();
- * }
- *
- * After this function completes the data pointed to by 'vaddr' has been
- * accepted to memory and will be durable if the 'vaddr' points to persistent
- * memory.
- *
- * PCOMMIT must always be ordered by an MFENCE or SFENCE, so to help simplify
- * things we include both the PCOMMIT and the required SFENCE in the
- * alternatives generated by pcommit_sfence().
- */
-static inline void pcommit_sfence(void)
-{
-	alternative(ASM_NOP7,
-		    ".byte 0x66, 0x0f, 0xae, 0xf8\n\t" /* pcommit */
-		    "sfence",
-		    X86_FEATURE_PCOMMIT);
-}
-
 #define nop() asm volatile ("nop")