On 4/16/2018 6:16 PM, Sinan Kaya wrote: > memory-barriers.txt has been updated with the following requirement. > > "When using writel(), a prior wmb() is not needed to guarantee that the > cache coherent memory writes have completed before writing to the MMIO > region." > > Current writeX() and iowriteX() implementations on alpha are not > satisfying this requirement as the barrier is after the register write. > > Move mb() in writeX() and iowriteX() functions to guarantee that HW > observes memory changes before performing register operations. > > Signed-off-by: Sinan Kaya <okaya@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Reported-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx> > --- > arch/alpha/kernel/io.c | 14 +++++++------- > 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-) Sorry for catching this late but this also needs to go to 4.17 after review. I missed the writel() implementation on arch/alpha/kernel/io.c file on my first patch. -- Sinan Kaya Qualcomm Datacenter Technologies, Inc. as an affiliate of Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. is a member of the Code Aurora Forum, a Linux Foundation Collaborative Project. -- 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
