Code includes barrier() followed by writel(). writel() already has a barrier on some architectures like arm64. This ends up CPU observing two barriers back to back before executing the register write. Since code already has an explicit barrier call, changing writel() to writel_relaxed(). Signed-off-by: Sinan Kaya <okaya@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/scsi/lpfc/lpfc_sli.c | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/scsi/lpfc/lpfc_sli.c b/drivers/scsi/lpfc/lpfc_sli.c index 5f5528a..7dae7d3 100644 --- a/drivers/scsi/lpfc/lpfc_sli.c +++ b/drivers/scsi/lpfc/lpfc_sli.c @@ -1647,7 +1647,7 @@ lpfc_sli_update_full_ring(struct lpfc_hba *phba, struct lpfc_sli_ring *pring) * Set ring 'ringno' to SET R0CE_REQ in Chip Att register. * The HBA will tell us when an IOCB entry is available. */ - writel((CA_R0ATT|CA_R0CE_REQ) << (ringno*4), phba->CAregaddr); + writel_relaxed((CA_R0ATT|CA_R0CE_REQ) << (ringno*4), phba->CAregaddr); readl(phba->CAregaddr); /* flush */ pring->stats.iocb_cmd_full++; @@ -1672,7 +1672,7 @@ lpfc_sli_update_ring(struct lpfc_hba *phba, struct lpfc_sli_ring *pring) */ if (!(phba->sli3_options & LPFC_SLI3_CRP_ENABLED)) { wmb(); - writel(CA_R0ATT << (ringno * 4), phba->CAregaddr); + writel_relaxed(CA_R0ATT << (ringno * 4), phba->CAregaddr); readl(phba->CAregaddr); /* flush */ } } -- 2.7.4 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-arm-msm" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html