On 03/19/2018 09:50 PM, Sinan Kaya wrote: > 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 writeX() to > writeX_relaxed(). > > Signed-off-by: Sinan Kaya <okaya@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > --- > drivers/scsi/ipr.c | 7 ++++--- > 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) > > diff --git a/drivers/scsi/ipr.c b/drivers/scsi/ipr.c > index e07dd99..209adac 100644 > --- a/drivers/scsi/ipr.c > +++ b/drivers/scsi/ipr.c > @@ -762,9 +762,9 @@ static void ipr_mask_and_clear_interrupts(struct ipr_ioa_cfg *ioa_cfg, > > /* Set interrupt mask to stop all new interrupts */ > if (ioa_cfg->sis64) > - writeq(~0, ioa_cfg->regs.set_interrupt_mask_reg); > + writeq_relaxed(~0, ioa_cfg->regs.set_interrupt_mask_reg); > else > - writel(~0, ioa_cfg->regs.set_interrupt_mask_reg); > + writel_relaxed(~0, ioa_cfg->regs.set_interrupt_mask_reg); > > /* Clear any pending interrupts */ > if (ioa_cfg->sis64) > @@ -8435,7 +8435,8 @@ static int ipr_reset_enable_ioa(struct ipr_cmnd *ipr_cmd) > wmb(); > if (ioa_cfg->sis64) { > /* Set the adapter to the correct endian mode. */ > - writel(IPR_ENDIAN_SWAP_KEY, ioa_cfg->regs.endian_swap_reg); > + writel_relaxed(IPR_ENDIAN_SWAP_KEY, > + ioa_cfg->regs.endian_swap_reg); > int_reg = readl(ioa_cfg->regs.endian_swap_reg); > } > Looks fine to me. Thanks. Acked-by: Brian King <brking@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> -- Brian King Power Linux I/O IBM Linux Technology Center -- 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