The driver was issuing a write memory barrier per each HW descriptor written but these descriptors are written in groups and we really only need one per group. White at it, document memory barrier reason. Signed-off-by: Gilad Ben-Yossef <gilad@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/staging/ccree/ssi_request_mgr.c | 13 ++++++++++++- 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/drivers/staging/ccree/ssi_request_mgr.c b/drivers/staging/ccree/ssi_request_mgr.c index e23c656..f5041f7 100644 --- a/drivers/staging/ccree/ssi_request_mgr.c +++ b/drivers/staging/ccree/ssi_request_mgr.c @@ -172,7 +172,6 @@ static inline void enqueue_seq( writel_relaxed(seq[i].word[2], (cc_base + CC_REG(DSCRPTR_QUEUE_WORD0))); writel_relaxed(seq[i].word[3], (cc_base + CC_REG(DSCRPTR_QUEUE_WORD0))); writel_relaxed(seq[i].word[4], (cc_base + CC_REG(DSCRPTR_QUEUE_WORD0))); - wmb(); writel_relaxed(seq[i].word[5], (cc_base + CC_REG(DSCRPTR_QUEUE_WORD0))); #ifdef DX_DUMP_DESCS dev_dbg(dev, "desc[%02d]: 0x%08X 0x%08X 0x%08X 0x%08X 0x%08X 0x%08X\n", @@ -359,6 +358,12 @@ int send_request( #ifdef FLUSH_CACHE_ALL flush_cache_all(); #endif + /* + * We are about to push command to the HW via the command registers + * that may refernece hsot memory. We need to issue a memory barrier + * to make sure there are no outstnading memory writes + */ + wmb(); /* STAT_PHASE_4: Push sequence */ enqueue_seq(cc_base, iv_seq, iv_seq_len); @@ -417,6 +422,12 @@ int send_request_init( set_queue_last_ind(&desc[(len - 1)]); + /* + * We are about to push command to the HW via the command registers + * that may refernece hsot memory. We need to issue a memory barrier + * to make sure there are no outstnading memory writes + */ + wmb(); enqueue_seq(cc_base, desc, len); /* Update the free slots in HW queue */ -- 2.7.4 _______________________________________________ devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://driverdev.linuxdriverproject.org/mailman/listinfo/driverdev-devel
