On Tue, Feb 26, 2019 at 10:38 AM Will Deacon <will.deacon@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> That makes sense to me for this Alpha-specific case, but in general I
> don't think we require that I/O accesses to different endpoints are
> ordered with respect to each other, which was implied by one of Maciej's
> examples. e.g.
>
> writeb(0x42, &foo_mmio_reg);
> readb(&bar_mmio_reg);
If they are the same device (just different data ports), I'd
*definitely* expect them to be ordered.
We have tons of code that depends on that. Almost every driver out
there, in fact.
So we need the mb() on alpha to guarantee the access ordering on the
CPU side, and then PCI itself ends up guaranteeing that accesses to
the same device will remain ordered outside the CPU.
Agreed?
Linus
