Currently a wmb() is used to ensure that writes to the UTP_TASK_REQ_LIST_BASE* regs are completed prior to following writes to the run/stop registers. wmb() ensure that the write completes, but completion doesn't mean that it isn't stored in a buffer somewhere. The recommendation for ensuring the bits have taken effect on the device is to perform a read back to force it to make it all the way to the device. This is documented in device-io.rst and a talk by Will Deacon on this can be seen over here: https://youtu.be/i6DayghhA8Q?si=MiyxB5cKJXSaoc01&t=1678 Let's do that to ensure the bits hit the device. Because the wmb()'s purpose wasn't to add extra ordering (on top of the ordering guaranteed by writel()/readl()), it can safely be removed. Fixes: 897efe628d7e ("scsi: ufs: add missing memory barriers") Signed-off-by: Andrew Halaney <ahalaney@xxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/ufs/core/ufshcd.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/drivers/ufs/core/ufshcd.c b/drivers/ufs/core/ufshcd.c index caebd589e08c..7c1975a1181f 100644 --- a/drivers/ufs/core/ufshcd.c +++ b/drivers/ufs/core/ufshcd.c @@ -4726,7 +4726,7 @@ int ufshcd_make_hba_operational(struct ufs_hba *hba) * Make sure base address and interrupt setup are updated before * enabling the run/stop registers below. */ - wmb(); + ufshcd_readl(hba, REG_UTP_TASK_REQ_LIST_BASE_H); /* * UCRDY, UTMRLDY and UTRLRDY bits must be 1 -- 2.43.0