On Wed, Sep 14, 2011 at 1:53 AM, Tony Lindgren <tony@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > * Santosh Shilimkar <santosh.shilimkar@xxxxxx> [110904 06:22]: >> On certain architectures, there might be a need to mark certain >> addresses with strongly ordered memory attributes to avoid ordering >> issues at the interconnect level. > > This is something Russell needs to look. > > You might want to also read the mailing list archives regarding the > strongly ordered access. > > Basically it still won't guarantee that the write gets to the > device, only a read back from the device in question guarantees > that at the bus level. > Russell has already seen this. I have sent this patches to Russell before adding them in the queue. This is different. There is a BUG in asynchronous bridges on OMAP44XX devices and that's the reason it' s needed. Regards Santosh -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-omap" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
